Charity bins Gungahlin style

rhino said :

I may be missing something, but what if she was donating boxes full of Blu ray players, blu rays, armani suits and gold jewellery? haha Obviously an exaggeration, but how do we know that she isn’t leaving useful things there for the charity instead of just dumping rubbish? I have put bags full of clothes in the bins before and if it is in a bag it’d look like garbage I guess. Or is the issue just that the bin is full and she is dumping it next to the bin? Or did you witness it close enough to tell what was in the boxes?

Dude – it’s already been said. Dumping things next to the charity bins is just as illegal as dumping them in the park or on the road. Also said, just above, is that if she’s dumping useful items, she should take them to the shop. No matter what it is she’s getting rid of here, it’s going to the tip at the charity’s expense.

I may be missing something, but what if she was donating boxes full of Blu ray players, blu rays, armani suits and gold jewellery? haha Obviously an exaggeration, but how do we know that she isn’t leaving useful things there for the charity instead of just dumping rubbish? I have put bags full of clothes in the bins before and if it is in a bag it’d look like garbage I guess. Or is the issue just that the bin is full and she is dumping it next to the bin? Or did you witness it close enough to tell what was in the boxes?

tim_c said :

dazzab said :

Maybe the boxes are full of very useful things just to big to get in the bins? 🙂

Then perhaps she should drop it off direct at the charity store (if it really is useful).

Too right. I’ve taken things to the Salvos at fyshwick and we’ve often dropped things off at Vinnies in Tuggers.

Just take it to the bloody shop for god’s (Beryl’s) sake.

Golden-Alpine said :

The Rangers were very happy to hear from me, especially after they saw the picture here and I could provide the unedited picture with rego number.

Hopefully the ranger you called was Walker. A Chuck Norris roundhouse kick to the face is undoubtedly the best solution to this problem (and most others too).

LSWCHP said :

FXST01 said :

Golden-Alpine said :

I got a phone call from City Rangers today. Guess who is getting a $200 fine?

I was quite pleased to hear from them and they were quite pleased with the photo and information provided.

Love your work Golden-Alpine 🙂

I’ll second that. There really is a God!

And his name is Allah…or Zoroaster…or Zeus…or Wotan…or Shiva…whatever…

Actually, her name is Beryl.

dazzab said :

Maybe the boxes are full of very useful things just to big to get in the bins? 🙂

Then perhaps she should drop it off direct at the charity store (if it really is useful).

Felix the Cat said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

If the boxes were going from the kerbside into the back of the ute, it would be treated as theft. Why do the police not take any interest in it the other way around? Are the goods the property of the charity once they sit next to a bin? If so, nothing wrong with this picture except for what is in the boxes is not clothing, nor is it inside the bin, nor is the person doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

I once reported someone to the cops for pinching stuff from next to a charity bin and the cops weren’t very interested. They thought I was reporting dumping at first.

The charities send out a mixed meesage about this. On one hand they say if it’s not placed in the bin then it’s dumping and penalties apply and then they also say stuff outside the bins is property of the charity and penalties apply for stealing.

The Rangers were very happy to hear from me, especially after they saw the picture here and I could provide the unedited picture with rego number.

wildturkeycanoe said :

If the boxes were going from the kerbside into the back of the ute, it would be treated as theft. Why do the police not take any interest in it the other way around? Are the goods the property of the charity once they sit next to a bin? If so, nothing wrong with this picture except for what is in the boxes is not clothing, nor is it inside the bin, nor is the person doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

I once reported someone to the cops for pinching stuff from next to a charity bin and the cops weren’t very interested. They thought I was reporting dumping at first.

The charities send out a mixed meesage about this. On one hand they say if it’s not placed in the bin then it’s dumping and penalties apply and then they also say stuff outside the bins is property of the charity and penalties apply for stealing.

Golden-Alpine said :

It would be nice if rather than getting a $200 fine people caught dumping have to do community service helping charity groups collect items from their charity bins. Or at the very least the $200 goes to one of the charities.

Good thinking. After all, she does have a ute and a good strong back. 20 hours of community service doing clothing collections would probably make her think more than a measly $200.

FXST01 said :

Golden-Alpine said :

I got a phone call from City Rangers today. Guess who is getting a $200 fine?

I was quite pleased to hear from them and they were quite pleased with the photo and information provided.

Love your work Golden-Alpine 🙂

I’ll second that. There really is a God!

And his name is Allah…or Zoroaster…or Zeus…or Wotan…or Shiva…whatever…

Golden-Alpine said :

I got a phone call from City Rangers today. Guess who is getting a $200 fine?

I was quite pleased to hear from them and they were quite pleased with the photo and information provided.

Love your work Golden-Alpine 🙂

Golden-Alpine said :

I got a phone call from City Rangers today. Guess who is getting a $200 fine?

I was quite pleased to hear from them and they were quite pleased with the photo and information provided.

It would be nice if rather than getting a $200 fine people caught dumping have to do community service helping charity groups collect items from their charity bins. Or at the very least the $200 goes to one of the charities.

YESSSSSS! I bet doing the right thing and paying that inconvenient tip fee is a lot more appealing now .. dumpy dumper!

I got a phone call from City Rangers today. Guess who is getting a $200 fine?

I was quite pleased to hear from them and they were quite pleased with the photo and information provided.

It would be nice if rather than getting a $200 fine people caught dumping have to do community service helping charity groups collect items from their charity bins. Or at the very least the $200 goes to one of the charities.

It’s also foolhardy for the vulnerable to trust non-prescription medicine

Some folk retain a healthy distrust of authoritarian force wielders, especially since our constabulary ultimately serve the same bankers the Gestapo did.

Power corrupts, and we have granted our herders more power than any of their forebears even dreamed of. Omnipresent eyes in the sky and our homes. These guardians of ours now enforce laws of terror, which allow them to kidnap, extradite and torture anyone at anytime.

It would be foolhardy for the prisoners to entirely trust the gaolers.

Truthiness said :

You could always call the local Gestapo, I’m sure they’d love a chance to get another arrest, quotas to fill and all that. I have no idea if she broke a law, but practically everything is illegal anyway if you look hard enough, and anyway, you could just call her a suspected terrorist and there won’t even need to be a charge, or a court, or a lawyer!

Otherwise you could pass the info on to the charity, they probably have some process in place.

I guess it comes down to how badly you want to see this woman get a $200 fine for being lazy.

The Gestapo dragged Jews and political activists and a few inconveniently noisy Christians away in the night and tortured and/or murdered them. It’s a bit lazy to draw the comparison with a woman who may or may not face a small fine, isn’t it?

Also, does that comment qualify as Godwinesque? As opposed to merely grotesque?

bigfeet said :

Golden-Alpine said :

Well I tried to do the right thing and report what I had observed and provide the photographic evidence. I was on hold for 20 minutes with Canberra Connect. The lady who eventually answered didn’t know how to handle the call. She then said I would need to be transferred to another area that closes at 5pm. As it was after 5pm she wanted to give me their direct number to ring back during business hours.

Seriously I went out of my way to get the photo, ring Canberra Connect, wait on hold and now they want me to ring back again!

Just how serious is the ACT Government about this?

Use the online form. https://www.contact.act.gov.au/app/ask You can also attach the photo. This will then give you a reference number you can follow up with.

If you haven’t heard back in two weeks write to your local member and quote the reference number.

Thank you bigfeet, that was very useful, if only the Canberra Connect staffer told me about that! Will see what happens with that now.

Golden-Alpine said :

Well I tried to do the right thing and report what I had observed and provide the photographic evidence. I was on hold for 20 minutes with Canberra Connect. The lady who eventually answered didn’t know how to handle the call. She then said I would need to be transferred to another area that closes at 5pm. As it was after 5pm she wanted to give me their direct number to ring back during business hours.

Seriously I went out of my way to get the photo, ring Canberra Connect, wait on hold and now they want me to ring back again!

Just how serious is the ACT Government about this?

LOL, is this your first experience with Canberra Connect? It seems about right to me.

You could always call the local Gestapo, I’m sure they’d love a chance to get another arrest, quotas to fill and all that. I have no idea if she broke a law, but practically everything is illegal anyway if you look hard enough, and anyway, you could just call her a suspected terrorist and there won’t even need to be a charge, or a court, or a lawyer!

Otherwise you could pass the info on to the charity, they probably have some process in place.

I guess it comes down to how badly you want to see this woman get a $200 fine for being lazy.

Golden-Alpine said :

Well I tried to do the right thing and report what I had observed and provide the photographic evidence. I was on hold for 20 minutes with Canberra Connect. The lady who eventually answered didn’t know how to handle the call. She then said I would need to be transferred to another area that closes at 5pm. As it was after 5pm she wanted to give me their direct number to ring back during business hours.

Seriously I went out of my way to get the photo, ring Canberra Connect, wait on hold and now they want me to ring back again!

Just how serious is the ACT Government about this?

Use the online form. https://www.contact.act.gov.au/app/ask You can also attach the photo. This will then give you a reference number you can follow up with.

If you haven’t heard back in two weeks write to your local member and quote the reference number.

Well I tried to do the right thing and report what I had observed and provide the photographic evidence. I was on hold for 20 minutes with Canberra Connect. The lady who eventually answered didn’t know how to handle the call. She then said I would need to be transferred to another area that closes at 5pm. As it was after 5pm she wanted to give me their direct number to ring back during business hours.

Seriously I went out of my way to get the photo, ring Canberra Connect, wait on hold and now they want me to ring back again!

Just how serious is the ACT Government about this?

Looks like a ranga dumping a boatload of policies.

Perhaps actgovco should put up a speed camera, they fix everything.

Charities should set up a dob in a dumper website (or some enterprising website developer company could do this for them) and put on display these ignorant twits who dump their rubbish, then plod can then access this 24/7 and do what they do.

MissChief said :

Calm down. Anyone would think the poor lady was dropping off boxes of dead puppies. You can’t even see what’s in the boxes nor do you know what happens after she gets to the bin.

Ah, she is littering, dumping her rubbish in the public domain. It is there now, the box she has in her hands and the rest of the crap in the back of her ute. It’s not clothes or blankets it’s rubbish.

She should be vilified.

MissChief said :

Calm down. Anyone would think the poor lady was dropping off boxes of dead puppies. You can’t even see what’s in the boxes nor do you know what happens after she gets to the bin.

It doesn’t matter what’s in the boxes – The charity will have to pay to dispose of it properly (along with the rest of the crap dumped there illegally).

KeenGolfer said :

LSWCHP said :

A couple of years ago I used to take my daughter for driving lessons out on Parkwood Road at the end of Southern Cross drive.

One day as we approached the dead-end, we saw this clown there cheerfully unloading an entire ute load of bulging garbage bags onto the side of the road next to a gate. His unselfconscious manner seemed to indicate that this was simply the sort of thing that one did with ones garbage these days.

I called the Belco police and gave them his vehicle and rego details, but nothing ever appeared to come of it.

Maybe because that’s in NSW, not ACT.

You learn something new every day.

Calm down. Anyone would think the poor lady was dropping off boxes of dead puppies. You can’t even see what’s in the boxes nor do you know what happens after she gets to the bin.

There’s a recycling centre at Mitchell, just down the road, where you can dump broken electronics and the like for free. Pass it on.

Maybe the boxes are full of very useful things just to big to get in the bins? 🙂

Golden-Alpine said :

BenMac said :

Maybe she’s loading, not unloading. Can’t tell from a single frame.

What I saw was unloading.

She must be walking backwards if she’s loading.

Looking at the pile of crap over there this morning and the box she has in her hands in the pic is there.

BenMac said :

Maybe she’s loading, not unloading. Can’t tell from a single frame.

What I saw was unloading.

Maybe she’s loading, not unloading. Can’t tell from a single frame.

If the boxes were going from the kerbside into the back of the ute, it would be treated as theft. Why do the police not take any interest in it the other way around? Are the goods the property of the charity once they sit next to a bin? If so, nothing wrong with this picture except for what is in the boxes is not clothing, nor is it inside the bin, nor is the person doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

I love the train of thought here.

“You know what a charity really needs? A dead car battery, a half inflated pool and some cardboard boxes. Homeless people love cardboard boxes, right? Those poor smacky bums will have a field day with this lot, like happy little mice in a dumpster.”

I can see their faces at the sorting center when they see how many cardboard investment properties they’ve just inherited. A proper Samaritan.

Overweight, 3 qtr tights as pants, unnecessary falcon ute courtesy of a bank loan, Gungahlin, dumping unwanted goods at a charity bin… Yep, all looks in order here. Standard practice. Nothing to see here people.

A festively plump bogan in bum pants dumping a good load worth of junk on a charity .. lazy, cheap and inexcusable, they should be reported.

LSWCHP said :

A couple of years ago I used to take my daughter for driving lessons out on Parkwood Road at the end of Southern Cross drive.

One day as we approached the dead-end, we saw this clown there cheerfully unloading an entire ute load of bulging garbage bags onto the side of the road next to a gate. His unselfconscious manner seemed to indicate that this was simply the sort of thing that one did with ones garbage these days.

I called the Belco police and gave them his vehicle and rego details, but nothing ever appeared to come of it.

Maybe because that’s in NSW, not ACT.

LSWCHP said :

A couple of years ago I used to take my daughter for driving lessons out on Parkwood Road at the end of Southern Cross drive.

One day as we approached the dead-end, we saw this clown there cheerfully unloading an entire ute load of bulging garbage bags onto the side of the road next to a gate. His unselfconscious manner seemed to indicate that this was simply the sort of thing that one did with ones garbage these days.

I called the Belco police and gave them his vehicle and rego details, but nothing ever appeared to come of it.

The dead-end of Parkwood is in NSW, so that would be why nothing came of reporting it to ACT Policing.

An arsehole pretending to be a good samaritan? 🙂

A couple of years ago I used to take my daughter for driving lessons out on Parkwood Road at the end of Southern Cross drive.

One day as we approached the dead-end, we saw this clown there cheerfully unloading an entire ute load of bulging garbage bags onto the side of the road next to a gate. His unselfconscious manner seemed to indicate that this was simply the sort of thing that one did with ones garbage these days.

I called the Belco police and gave them his vehicle and rego details, but nothing ever appeared to come of it.

She was saving the $10 that it would cost to take it to the tip or the petrol the ute would use going up to the Brindies to dump it by the side of the road. What a turd.

Please say you sent this pic to Canberra Connect.

I thought Katy had outlawed charity bins?

Report them – you have the number plate

Sorry, taken today, Saturday 15/9/12 at 12:10pm.

Awesome, hopefully you reported the plate number to Canberra Connect. Shouldn’t be too hard to unite this piece of scum with a nice fine.

That’s just lazy and ignorant.