Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
People rooting through my bins ....
...... three separate people have been though mine and my neighbours bins today .... been noticing this has been on the increase lately in general. Anyone else noticed this ? How can we stop it happening ..? Everyone make sure you don't put any confid docs in your bins !!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by haf weighton on
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We had two people going through our bins. My neighbour went outside to speak to them, but they couldn't speak English. They seemed to be looking for objects rather than paperwork. They were a man and a woman.( possibly mother and son.)The woman looked quite elderly. They found an old handbag in my neighbours bin but then discarded it when interrupted. When my neighbour asked them to move on they walked away. But then tried going through a bin further up the street.
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Permalink Reply by Kamila on
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Yes I had this as well and when I challenged them they said they were looking for metal. They had an unmarked white van - clearly big business.
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I thought it was metal they were interested in. I think i saw them outside our place last year asking for metal when we were having work done.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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I live in on of the three flats in a semi-detached house in Crouch End - one of the most unequal part of this most unequal borough.
I care about equality/social justice/economic/environmental issues and get involved. I do have a car though (not in shot below) and am not poor. People in my street sometimes leave stuff on the pavement if they want it recycled.
I was pleased yesterday when leaving home to see two people going through my bins - they had left a pile of what looked like kids' shoes on the pavement. My teenage son thought they were Roma travellers.
I do want everything possible recycled and felt good that, what these recyclers were doing was elegant - not blind to the fact that if more people recycled, the cost to society (including me) would be reduced - cheaper at the point of collection than at the depot. Annoyed that the Council does not allow us to salvage from the 'reuse and recyling' depot, even though it's our neighbours who've contributed.
Feel strongly that it is our responsibility not to do stuff that facilitates crime, so I don't knowingly put anything in the bins that could criminalise someone. Would act to prevent crime if it seemed safe to do so - don't want 'people in vans' to prosper. Like other posters, I think it's up to us to decide who looks like a crook and who doesn't - there but for circumstance go all of us.
If I could talk to these people, I'd tell them I'm delighted they're recycling - keep it up.
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I am nominating Chris Setz for a HOL Knighthood as a paragon of reason, social justice and the imagination to walk in someone else's shoes. This is no 'bleeding hearted bollocks' [I thank thee, Anette, for teaching me that word of empathy!] but sober common sense and, one might say, somewhat closer to the spirit that some of us had imagined HOL set out to create five years ago.
More of that sort of approach, and less of the curtain-twitching fearmongering towards those who aren't like us or who don't subscribe to our micro group-oriented behavio(u)rs, might persuade even the likes of OAE to display a sunnier side, or even make a pretence of imitating a few of said group-oriented behavio(u)rs.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Seconded. All those in favour of Chris's nomination for an HoL Knighthood?
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I would tend to agree. I think they were Romas that were looking for metal in our bins. Am in favour of recycling and put all sorts of things out on the pavement and they always go within minutes. Nothing in my bin but cat litter!!!! I ought to get the recyclable sort but am unsure about putting it on my veg plot.
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Kamila, you have a garden... it's not too late to teach your cat to use that. I know mine did when I lived next to you.
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Ah yes - things have developed since then! A cat moved in next door and there were terrible terretorial disputes and I ended up with very expensive vet bills until we agreed to have timed cat slots! Vets always recommend that you should keep your cats indoors at night anyway. They don't use the litter much - it's more for an emergency but I should investigate compostable cat litter anyway. How are your cats - and you all?
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Hi all. I thought i would reply as i have had man pushing a pram along Crowland Road at 11.25am today looking through the wheelie bins.He didn't look through mine as i was in the front garden at the time.
When he was being watched he stopped and pretended to be walking along the road and didn't like it when he was photographed.
He was a white male,approx 5'5" tall wearing a black bomber jacket with grey hooded sweatshirt underneath and black sweatpants and stubbly beard.
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Hi all.
I have had a man going through the wheelie bins in Crowland Road today at 11.25am.
He didn't go through mine as i happened to be in the front garden at the time.
He may be eastern european,approx 5'52 tall wearing a black bomber type jacket with grey hooded sweatshirt underneath and black sweatpants.
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