Watch-out. Someone going through recycling bins.

[Pocket]

Just wanted to give a watch-out. Someone has been going through our recycling bin on a regular basis over the past fortnight (during the night) - pretty methodically taking stuff out and sifting through. There could be lots of reasons; identity theft being one of them of course. This weekend we found this person/s had also defecated in our front garden as well.

We're just off Lyndhurst Grove. The local police community group has been notified. If anyone else has had an issue with this please do report it. And take care to shred anything personal etc before throwing it in the recycling bin.

[pinecone]

This really is a bit of a stretch. I can't believe you can identify a paper-rifler from their stools. Question is, why have you been targeted?

[DulwichFox]

They were on Ulverscroft rd. last week going through Green bins. Not usually used for Paper Waste.

DulwichFox

[pinecone]

DF, did they leave a deposit when they visited Ulverscroft? I do find it hard to believe that people looking for identity materials would be minded to relieve themselves in someone's garden without a prior motive.

[northwoods]

Perhaps they were marking their territory, to warn off other potential bin-riflers...

[DulwichFox]

pinecone Wrote:

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> DF, did they leave a deposit when they visited

> Ulverscroft? I do find it hard to believe that

> people looking for identity materials would be

> minded to relieve themselves in someone's garden

> without a prior motive.

No he did not leave a 'Deposit' ????

But the cheek of it I was standing about 3-4 feet away from him and my bin but had my back to him talking to a mate.

The guy was not put off and continued looking in all the green bins up the road even though he was aware

he was being watched.

DulwichFox

[pinecone]

DF, I think you misunderstand me. I am not disputing the cheek of sifting through recycling bins. I am merely saying that it is quite a stretch to say that the defecator in question is necessarily the same person.

[DulwichFox]

pinecone Wrote:

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> DF, I think you misunderstand me. I am not

> disputing the cheek of sifting through recycling

> bins. I am merely saying that it is quite a

> stretch to say that the defecator in question is

> necessarily the same person.

No idea what you are on about. I at no time suggested that anyone had defecated.

The O.P. did suggest the like.

The main subject of this thread is 'Someone going through recycling bins.'

I just replied that I had witnessed the same.

DulwichFox

[thebestnameshavegone]

Faced with the decision over whether this was a fox or a human, I'm definitely going with human, because East Dulwich Forum

[Callie]

pinecone Wrote:

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> This really is a bit of a stretch.

A bit of a stench more like. Could be someone sleepwalking. They end up in a garden, think it's the loo. Then rummage in bin for loo paper?

[DulwichFox]

This is not an isolated event..

There is a group of them, going around looking in bins. Possible for scrap but Most likely

looking for Secure Waste.

Always Shred your Secure Waste documents.. Shredders are not that expensive and could save you losing

your ID.

DulwichFox.

[Dopamine1979]

Callie Wrote:

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> pinecone Wrote:

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> > This really is a bit of a stretch.

>

> A bit of a stench more like. Could be someone

> sleepwalking. They end up in a garden, think it's

> the loo. Then rummage in bin for loo paper?

Hahaha Callie!

That's quite some insight at 2.03am!

Based on a true story perhaps? Happened to a 'friend' of yours?

[lorraineliyanage]

Not quite the same as rifling for personal date in the recycling bin but some berk dumped his dog's turd in my blue recycling bin the other day on Barry Road. Luckily I saw him and made him retrieve it from the bin. He didn't bother to offer an apology either - the arrogance of some people, eh!

[MarleyLover]

In my local area - just behind Rye Lane. I have noticed in the early hours of the morning - some Eastern European looking men, driving around in a open top van, going through rubbish bins as well as recycling bins, collecting items that are of interest to them. This too has been happening for some weeks now.

[Romnarz]

well these bins are recycle bins and they are recycling so thats got to be good. I suspect that most of my carefully recycled stuff gets buried or burnt anyway. Lewisham have a waste incinerator SELCHP near millwall football that needs to be fed loads of rubbish in order to generate much needed electricity.