Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The Daily Telegraph reports that a litter-picking enthusiast who spends an hour each day cleaning the streets of Stourbridge has been fined £75 after putting refuse into a public bin. Dudley council officials accused David Baker of fly-tipping because they said he had used a litter bin to deposit a pizza box and junk mail - considered illegal as this is classed as "domestic waste". Mr Baker has previously won awards for his cleaning efforts. He described the fine as "bureaucracy gone mad" and said the council seemed "desperate for money".
Source: The Daily Telegraph, Page: 5
If ever DDc went this mad, I think I'd have to resign as a Councillor.
We have a chap who walks up and down the Folkestone Road picking up litter as he goes; I wouldn't want to deter him from continuing doing so.
Surely the litter bins (and we don't have enough of them) are for waste and litter that would otherwise be thrown down on the pavement or in the road, so anyone picking it up and putting it in the public waste bins should be given a community award, not a fine.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"Environment boss Councillor Tracy Wood said: "Our enforcement officers issued a fixed penalty fine to Mr Baker in Stourbridge, after they found his domestic waste and letters in the litter bin on a number of occasions. However, we will be reviewing the fine and speaking to Mr Baker directly to discuss it.""
It sounds a little more realistic when called a 'fixed penalty' rather than a fine. He may well be exonerated, but will the chap in the peaked-cap get to keep his bonus?
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"Councillor David Stanley, Dudley cabinet member for environment and culture, said: "This is another in a long line of council prosecutions for littering that I hope will send out a message to other people to dispose of their rubbish responsibly." "
They do seem to have the bit between their teeth...
http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/local/8225304.Gum_dropping_litter_bug_given_hefty_fine_to_chew_over/
No charge of driving away from the scene of the crime though...yet.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Actually, people who send out junk mail could be prosecuted for fly-tipping into our letter boxes. If you stuffed a McDonald's box through someone's letter box it would be fly-tipping, so why not junk mail?
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Why complain when instead, with a little imagination, wonders can be performed. Why not lay-down what shaped the junk mail may take?
http://www.squidoo.com/make-a-little-box
I like their Pyramid Doodle Box too. For all your little gift ideas?
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Am I fly-tipping if someone fly-tips under my windscreen wiper and I turn them on to let the paper fly off ??
Been nice knowing you :)
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Seriously though I guess that would depend on whether the car was moving at the time or you were parked up.
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