"Colin Wilson" o.uk wrote
in message g...
At last.

I live in hope. Caught the next-door-but-one's latest hump-buddy
dumping a fridge and a washing machine (?!?) at the bottom of the
occupants' garden earlier (in an area that can only be described as
wasteland* now !)

*the council have already had to come in and clear it once before of
all their shi*e - sadly, my immediate next door neighbour does exactly
the same !

To do so, they had to move them over 40 feet across unkempt wilderness
(formerly "garden") and through where their fence should be - god only
knows what happened to the brand new fence they had put in for free 2
years ago, but there's no sign of one now...

Now throw into the mix that to drag it across the "lawn" they had to
move it past their entry, from where they could have had it picked up
and disposed of *for free* by the council with a single phone call.

That`s the thing that scares me the most - why put more effort into dumping
something than it takes to get it moved properly? I had an emptying session
in my house, and what was worth giving away went on freecycle, which is a
bit of a pain because of the small number of idiots who don`t turn up, and
then get back in touch a week later trying to arrange collection (and get
upset when told it`s gone). What wasn`t worth giving away was collected by
the council after one phone call and a 2 day wait for them to be back in
this area at a time I was in the house.

Compare that to dragging a washing machine to the nearest place to dump it
(well, the nearest place I ever see anything dumped is a 3 minute drive
away) and it`s obvious which is the easy option. It`d be nice if science
ever came up with a way to implant a brain in some of these idiots!