Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
A new type of bin raider?
I am probably going to regret posting this because I know it is a controversial topic on here!
Anyway, last night at midnight my hubby and I got woken up to some guy rustling through our bins outside our bedroom window. Hubby knocked on the window and enquired what the man was doing (he looked in his mid 20s, dark clothes, black wolly hat). The man said "Looking for a plastic bag, mate" and then walked off. I watched him go down the street and saw him getting out a new bin bag and putting something in to it. He also had a variety of sainsburys bags with him. All very odd...!
Anyone like to make a guess at what he was doing/looking for? Do you think he was looking for scrap metal like the other people who frequent our bins on the Harringay ladder? Or something else?
Anyone else seen late night bin raiders?
Please let's not go over the same debates as in previous posts about people going through bins. I am genuinely interested in what people think he was doing.
Tags for Forum Posts: bins, theft from dustbins
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Permalink Reply by Mike C on
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should have read 'going' in the bins. sorry about that, i can see how that would be confusing. i am genuinely surprised about the frequency of bin-raiding I saw, I guess there isn't a rota, and also curious if anyone has any ideas (strictly on the question posed.) So far the answer appears to be 'no' but in rather more words, but i now have a drive to find out. Hope someone has something positive for you Sally M.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Alas, Maggie, homelessness may indeed result in "people in the bins every other night".
14/12/'12 - just a week ago: 41-year old Chad Adams, Fort Worth-Texas, slept in a garbage bin and was crushed in a trash compactor next morning.
07/09/'12: 50-yr old homeless man (unnamed till any relatives are traced) crushed to death after his wheelie bin was tipped into a compacter lorry this morning, in Wirral-Merseyside.
05/05/'09: 54-yr old Raymond Pickering fell asleep in a commercial wheelie bin in Nottingham - crushed to death in a Biffa compacter truck and found hours later at the Biffa waste management site in Colwick.
Binmen/operatives making a bit of a racket in the early morning shouldn't be blamed. Certainly the Biffa boys in Nottingham are instructed to give bins a good shaking in case of rats, foxes or other occupants. They are not allowed to open bins, to avoid danger from hypodermic needles etc.
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