Law & Order?

[Northern Scum]

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

It could be you who is the next victim of these rouges of the night.



The members of Northavon Bowling Club (a suspected mafia front, I guess) are locked in a row with their local council over a rent rise.

The council ordered them out then chained & padlocked the gates, which were severed by an unknown person on Sunday morning.

News that the green was open spread and at 2pm around 50 bowlers, aged up to 86, arrived & began to play.



However seven coppers in four patrol cars arrived & threatened to arrest the pensioners until they left.

Bowler Barrie Smith (aka The Godfather), who is in his 70s, said "As a senior citizen I'm being forced out of the only activity I'm still able to take part in."

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police denied the force had been heavy-handed.

Another crime-family to feel the full force of the law lately is the Corkhills.



These high-ranking underworld villans had their collars felt because they believed they would get away with putting one-too-many bin bags in their wheelie bin.

they were ordered to pay £210 - a week's wages in this family - after they declined to pay an on-the-spot fine imposed by the local council's bin police, who visited him wearing stab-proof vests & carrying photographic evidence of his 'crime'.



Yesterday the council said that Mr Corkhill's family had caused problems for 'the battle to reduce waste'.

Meanwhile...



Suicide bombers chat about blowing up the Tube (a few weeks before they actually did, killing fifty-odd people) under the watchful eye of our anti-terror boys.

It's a shame they never over-filled their wheelie bin, eh?

[micksterbs]

Just one of the reasons I left...

[artist]

Who would want to play bowls in the middle of winter all dresssed up

[stroller]

Who would want to play bowls in the middle of winter all dresssed up

Lots of eccentrics in Britain.
The place has a reputation for it.

It would be a great shame if the authorities managed to turn them all into managable, standardised human units.

[Lady Hawk]

It would be a great shame if the authorities managed to turn them all into managable, standardised human units.

Don't worry stroll they wont a lot of us are fightimg against this pathetic nanny state

[meow]

Hmm, let me see. In the UK they reduced the bin collection frequency from once a week, to one a fortnight.

Then they employ refuse violation 'officers' to snoop about your garden and your bins. SICK !

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

I am thoroughly depressed to have to live in the UK.

[stroller]

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

Is it?
For households?

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

[Northern Scum]

Revolution!

[Texpat]

Ummm, weekly where I live in rural Thailand.

In another place that shall remain nameless lest I suffer the wrath of those that are not jealous ... twice weekly.

How's that NHS working out for you?

[Northern Scum]

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

What do they do with the rubbish?

I suppose you could burn it.

[Jet Gorgon]

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

Is it?
For households?

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

Eek! Do your neighbours burn everything? That was the worst -- plastic water bottles smouldering away. I had daily collection on Samui. Had to take it up to the ring road, but a nice short walk with my old dog. The recycle man drove his trike bike down my lane once a week and tried to pay me for newspapers, bottles, old equipment, etc. Lovely man. Canada. They have garbage police, too. If you try to throw out recyclables they get you. We have a blue box for tins, bottles, plastics (all must be washed). A bag for newspapers and a bag for other paper materials (pizza boxes, cardboard, toilet paper rolls, etc). I am a recycle freak. I even deconstruct my cigarette packets. If I had a proper garden, I'd keep veg peelings for the compost heap. Maybe there's a pig farm around...we also had a pig farmer who used to come round to collect slop for his piggies on Samui.

[jizzybloke]

^^ MrsJB's lot recycle most but get the rest collected every week, 5 or 10baht'ish i think

[stroller]

That's the other extreme, in many places it is somewhere in between, i.e. weekly.

[Propagator]

Round our way at present we have 4 differant bins. Green one for compostable waste, blue one for papers, black box for bottles and tins and a brown one for rubbish. All collected of differant days, some weekly some fortnightly.

[Texpat]

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

Is it?
For households?

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

Eek! Do your neighbours burn everything? That was the worst -- plastic water bottles smouldering away. I had daily collection on Samui. Had to take it up to the ring road, but a nice short walk with my old dog. The recycle man drove his trike bike down my lane once a week and tried to pay me for newspapers, bottles, old equipment, etc. Lovely man. Canada. They have garbage police, too. If you try to throw out recyclables they get you. We have a blue box for tins, bottles, plastics (all must be washed). A bag for newspapers and a bag for other paper materials (pizza boxes, cardboard, toilet paper rolls, etc). I am a recycle freak. I even deconstruct my cigarette packets. If I had a proper garden, I'd keep veg peelings for the compost heap. Maybe there's a pig farm around...we also had a pig farmer who used to come round to collect slop for his piggies on Samui.

If they put a price on recyclables, nobody would throw them away. On another thread, I explained the five cents per aluminum can deal in California. Nobody threw those away. Even the rich folk. Sure the beer costs a shitload up front, but you drink 10, get one free when you recycle the cans/bottles.

I lived in Japan in the mid 80s where the recycle mama-sans would crack open your bags and chastize you for slipping in plastics, paper or metals. They were on it long before me.

Is all this new? Are some folks above handling garbage?

Where I am now. I have a flipped-out recycled tire as my bin -- with a lid. We rarely fill it. A lot of it has to do with western packaging and waste. I don't agree with all the plastic bags here, but it's certainly better, volume-wise and environmentally, than my experiences in Japan and US. Probably the same in UK.

[friscofrankie]

^Actually, there is a price on them. not a deposit like in CA but you've got them fellers with carts behind their bicycles or motocys rummaging through the garbage everywhere for plastics, aluminum, even paper.
Hell My ol lady won't throw anything away. come home tickled pink with her fifteen baht every once in a while. Wish she'd just let the gleaners have at it.

[NickA]

We have the bins collected twice a week, plus a garden rubbish truck about once a week and about three different recyclers that come around once or twice a week to buy bottles/paper/etc....

The English have stopped talking about the weather these days, all they talk about is what colour bloody bin they're supposed to put out tomorrow

[Marmite the Dog]

Most places that I have lived in in Bangkok have their refuse collected every day (well, night actually).

[meow]

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

Is it?
For households?

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

Don't know about in the sticks, but in all 4 different locations in BKK I lived in, the bins were collected daily.

[meow]

Ummm, weekly where I live in rural Thailand.

In another place that shall remain nameless lest I suffer the wrath of those that are not jealous ... twice weekly.

How's that NHS working out for you?

NHS is working out fine for me. Got a severe inner ear problem where my eardrums have filled with fluid causing severe tinnitus. Been told I will have to wait 6 months to see anyone who can even look at it.

So the NHS is working great for me, thanks for asking.

[Norton]

Hell My ol lady won't throw anything away. come home tickled pink with her fifteen baht every once in a while.

Same, same. Does your missus pull the tabs off the cans and save them separately? Came to find out she gives them to hospitals to make artificial limbs/braces.

[peterpan]

Every second day here in Baan Nawk, and an extortionate charge of 20 baht a month,
can't fault theses guys either if the dogs get into the rubbish they clean it all up.

[Fabian]

Why is it in countries such as Thailand & even Cambodia, refuse is collected daily.

Is it?
For households?

There is no such thing as refuse collection where I live.

Eek! Do your neighbours burn everything?

In my ex's village they just throw the garbage on a pile a few metres outside the village. Once a week or so someone will burn it down a bit.

[Fabian]

Hell My ol lady won't throw anything away. come home tickled pink with her fifteen baht every once in a while.

Same, same. Does your missus pull the tabs off the cans and save them separately? Came to find out she gives them to hospitals to make artificial limbs/braces.

They really believe every hoax making the round through e-mail inboxes.

[Norton]

They really believe every hoax making the round through e-mail inboxes.

Not a hoax. Several small fabricators in the area make simple braces for handicapped villagers. They come up with some pretty bazaar looking contraptions but guess they are better than nothing.