Back In The Old Days When I Was In The UK,

every week Mum or Dad would put the bin out,

no great skill needed, just put it where it was convenient and it would be emptied every week, but no longer in the UK, it appears councils flush with money have inspectors looking at the placement of bins and taking pictures if they are as little as two bin lengths away from the correct place, Fylde Council decided that enough was enough in the case of Jane Pugh, her bin was confiscated by the council who would not return it till she paid £30 for it's return, this move of course cost the environment dear as Mrs Pugh drove her car to the council tip until she paid the fine,

the stand-off began in August when freelance writer Mrs Pugh found her bin had gone missing from the communal alleyway behind her house in Ansdell, in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, when she phoned up Fylde Council to report the loss, she was told the bin had been confiscated because it had been left in the wrong place, the official warned her to keep it in her back garden or face a fine of up to £1,000, after pointing out that the council’s edict was impractical as her garden was so small her bin was returned, a member of the council’s waste enforcement team also visited Mrs Pugh and agreed she could keep the bin in a smaller passage, known as a ginnel, leading off the main alleyway,

but you know how these petty officials work, council officials were secretly dispatched to inspect the alleyway five times to check she had kept the agreement, and it was not long before Mrs Pugh found, once again, that her bin had gone missing, she had put it in the wrong place, after I suspect some publicity a spokesman for Fylde Council said the bin had been removed following ‘a number of complaints’ but that Mrs Pugh could now get it back without charge,

but what a great game, at the time I was talking about back in the 1950's us street kids had a game of 'knock down ginger' you rang a door bell then ran away to ovoid a clip round the ear if caught by the householder, just think of the fun nowadays moving every ones bins making it look like an act of civil disobedience as armies of council inspectors call round to photograph them, to add to the fun you could even knock a few over!