Tuesday - June 09, 2009

Family barricaded in driveway every week for a YEAR in feud with bullying binmen. OR …

HOW THINGS WORK IN THE UK. OR DON’T AS THE CASE MAY BE.

This story is a good example of why guns are good!
First time maybe it’s funny.  After that, all bets are off and then claim “diminished responsibility.”
Works like a charm every time.
Be a good lesson for binmen to learn what health and safety REALLY can mean.

Family barricaded in driveway every week for a YEAR in feud with bullying binmen

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:38 PM on 09th June 2009

When Emma Harper made a complaint to the council about a black wheelie bin being left on her step, she simply assumed her comments would be dealt with in the usual manner.

Instead, her family has been subjected to a year-long campaign of bullying from binmen who now barricade them into their driveway every week with up to 15 of their neighbours’ bins.

The feud erupted last June when Emma Harper, 35, complained to a council worker after she almost tripped over a black wheelie bin which had been left on her doorstep.

But she was stunned when, the following week, a row of ten large black wheelie bins were lined at the bottom of her drive, blocking her in.

The bullying tactics have continued every week, with up to 15 bins stacked side-by-side at the end of the driveway outside their semi-detached house in Coventry.

Emma, a secondary school teacher, has now reached ‘breaking point’ after binmen cited health and safety reasons for leaving the bins outside her house. 

She said: ‘The first week it happened we could see the funny side of it but we didn’t expect it continue.

‘We dread waking up on collection day to find we’ve been targeted yet again by these arrogant binmen.

‘I know it’s not a life-threatening issue, but it takes a while to move the bins each morning which can make me late for work.

‘The binmen say they aren’t allowed to touch the bins because it’s somebody else’s job - but they’re being paid with my council tax.

‘One even swaggered up to me and said it was against health and safety procedure to move them - I was amazed.

‘I’ve reached breaking point and something has to be done to sort this out. We’re being treated appallingly.’

Every Wednesday night Emma places her two bins - one for recycling and another for domestic waste - at the end of her driveway for collection the following morning.

But before she can drive to work she has to move at least ten of her neighbours’ bins which have been lined up outside her driveway after the binmen have emptied them.

Emma has even taken pictures of the bins as evidence and posted them to Coventry City Council in a bid to stop the bullying.

She tried to ask one of the bin men why they blockade her drive but they swore under their breath and walked off.

Another simply shrugged his shoulders and said it was not his job to collect the bins.

Emma said: ‘I hate confrontation and understand everyone has a job to do but I am staggered by the behaviour of these people.’

Now Emma has to spend around ten minutes dragging the bins away from her driveway every Thursday morning so that she can take her daughters Abigail, 17, and Chloe, 11, to school.

Emma added: ‘I thought somebody was playing a ‘Beadle’s About’ type prank on me at first but now it’s gone way beyond a joke.

‘It’s utterly ridiculous that we should be met with abuse every time we try to get the problem sorted.’

A Coventry City Council spokesman said: ‘We thank Mrs Harper for raising this concern and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

‘We will be ensuring that measures are taken to prevent this from happening again in the future.’

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 06/09/2009 at 07:44 AM   
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