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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Seen today on Seymour Road outside our house. Woman, late 20s, average height, with dyed blonde hair dark at the roots done up on top of her head, dressed casually. She walked into our front garden and had a look through our bins, then left. She made off down the road towards Green Lanes quite quickly.

It may be linked with the fact that my purse and phone were stolen from my bag on the bus earlier this week and she may have been looking for further ID; on the other hand, she may have just been opportunistic. 

Be careful what you put In your bins and watch out for distraction thieves, particularly on crowded buses. 

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Yes and it does happen around here too - lady in my block was defrauded after someone went through our bins a couple of years ago.

We had a spate of some unscrupulous folk using our block doorstep to loiter and take drugs on last summer and they’d be rifling through the bins often, probably less bothered about details to defraud but still rather unpleasant. Last straw was finding NHS issued drug taking equipment strewn across the path. A couple of calls to 101 and the occasional confrontation with the more vociferous of residents eventually moved them on.

Barney’s right - I don’t have a shredder but any personal details go in normal rubbish and not loose in the recycling.

Happened to me a few years ago and I ended up being chased by debt recovery companies for massive store card debts that had nothing to do with me.  It was a few nightmarish months of me having to prove that the user of the cards wasn’t me.  Then the Police turned up asking why a car registered in my name and at my address didn’t stop after having an accident (I can’t even drive).  Someone looking through your bin in order to recycle sounds lovely but that isn’t always what it’s about.  I err on the side of caution and tell them to f**k off if I see someone having a rummage through the recycling - it happens not infrequently.

The correct and appropriate Anglo Saxon response, as per the previous reply,  anything decent should be going to a charity shop.  Everything else is rubbish or recycling, so they have no business going through your bins on your property.

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