Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Rubbish bags (possibly) ripped open by a woman on Wightman Road
Hi, has anyone else experienced this? Our neighbours moved out and left a load of bin bags in our front garden. On Sunday morning my partner went out to find that the bags had been ripped open and the contents scattered over the garden, other bags were only partly ripped to see what was inside. At first he thought it might be foxes (though they didn’t contain food). He looked further along the road and saw a woman walking along and lifting up every bin she came across to look inside. It’s all a bit perplexing and unpleasant. He couldn’t swear it was her but it was all very odd. On another note I do wish we got rubbish collect every week during the summer months!
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Yes, this is quite common. I often asked what they were looking for - one answer I got was things to sell e.g. Old CDs, clothes, accessories etc which he flogged at a carboot once a month (told me I'd be surprised what people put in the bin!), another was specifically looking for clothes and indicated he and his family intended to wear them - people moving out can be a rich source as people often rid themselves of lots of unwanted but perfectly good stuff when they move. I have no objection to the recycling element but I do to the mess so ask them to tidy up (I even help!) if I catch them. Surprisingly perhaps, most do.
I think we'd be less bothered by this if we didn't leave our rubbish in front gardens to collect because the thorny issue of invading space comes up. If, as in other countries, rubbish was disposed of in specific places away from the house, we'd probably not give the 'recyclers' a second glance. But that's a whole other post, I think, about how culturally and historically we've come to expect rubbish to be collected from the doorstep and whether this is the norm in most other countries. Many places have a central collection point emptied daily - I wonder if our way of doorstep collection creates many of the problems we encounter around waste collection.
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Permalink Reply by Delacey68 on
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Hence the need to shred anything that might have your name and address on it before you put it in the recycling bin. It used to happen regularly on Hampden Rd a couple of years ago and we started to report them to the Police. They are breaking the law going through your bins as it is on your property. Since the Police caught a couple of ladies with stolen purses on them as well, and arrested them, I haven't seen the regular bin skimmers for a while.
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Permalink Reply by warren miller on
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I believe she's looking for scrap metal to sell. There's a few threads about it on this forum. search for 'urban miners'
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Permalink Reply by Michelle M on
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Ah thanks both, yes it wasn’t our rubbish but there were plenty of clothes and cds which had been dumped (obviously the skimmers thought it wasn’t worth taking to sell). Our landlord kindly took most of it away for us after we had rebagged. It was the mess that was so upsetting, some of my garden flowers were taken, but I thought that might just be kids messing about though as were just the ones easy to reach
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Yes, some 'miners' are very specific about what they want - one chap (very tidy, I might add) looks for copper in old appliances - even carries tools to dismantle them, unlike a elderly couple I went mental at for smashing a TV in the street (which did explain why the smashed TV fly tips appear). Some are looking for clothes and rags because they can sell those too. I also once had it explained that for people who survive without access to public funds, it can be their only source of income.
Of course, there are the criminals looking for IDs but if you've not as Delacey says shredded your documents, you really are asking for trouble.
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