Dustbins

[Caran]

Just realised we haven't brought the dustbin back from outside the gate as it was bin day. Went out to get it - it's gone!! Some little s**t has pinched it grrrr.

[4getmenot]

it was me!! was it a black one?

[jno]

you don't have your number painted big on it? Tut.

[joggerjayne]

You decadent people who have your own bins !!

(except for carandrog, of course ... someone else has carandrog's own bin!)

[jno]

oh, now I think of it, last time ours vanished we went all along the street and nobody had it (they all still had their own outside). We concluded the binmen had taken it, possibly because they'd knocked the wheels off or something, and asked the council for a replacement, which arrived without query a couple of days later.

So it might not be the neighbours.

[sherrardk]

We have three dustbins (in addition to the recycling bin) and someone nicked one bin lid, why would you want a bin lid?

[jno]

well, again sherrardk it might well have been knocked off by the thingummy that lifts bins and empties them into the lorry, and there's no way they would tell you they've just wrecked your bin.

Alternatively the local foxes' co-op may have got together to do it to make your food scraps easier to get at.

[starone]

There was a spate of bin thefts here once. It was the local layabouts who thought it was a great joke to take them down the field and set fire to them.

[4getmenot]

redcrx lid went missing once for sledging on

[Caran]

It was a normal black bin with the number on it. Tomorrow I will be having a look at neighbours bins just in case. A few years ago we had a very large pot of day lilies stolen. They were in the front garden, not visible from the road so a bit of ferreting about had to be done. Next morning after I discovered they had gone I spoke to a neighbour about it, he said he had seen a pot about a quarter of a mile down the road, broken in pieces and the plants strewn about. Some real little s**ts about. Had to type this twice as lost internet when I tried to submit.

[AryomGrob]

it must have 'bin and gone' ;-)