Something ridiculous happened today, or should I say happened again.
Here in NZ, we are given a wheelie bin (a big lidded rubbish bin with wheels) and green bin for the recyclable items. The city council allocated a collection day for each suburb and we have to put both the wheelie and green recycling bins before 7am on that day. The rubbish collection day for my area is Friday. As we live in an enclosed community housing area, we need to take the recycling bin out to the road side. Not the big wheelie bin though as the mechanical rubbish collector truck will come in for that. So, normally what most people do is to bring the bin out on Thursday evening, and collect it during the following evening after we are back from work. Sounds pretty simple right?
Except our recycle bin got stolen, for the SECOND time! Can you believe it? STOLEN, RECYCLE BIN! Now, not that I’d condone it, but I could at least see the point if we needed to pay for the bin. BUT the bin is FREE! It’s freaking free, people! All the bins are provided by the city council for free. If yours get lost or damaged, just make a call and they’ll deliver a spanking new one to your doorstep. So there’s really no need to steal here. I could force myself to understand when it went missing the first time around, as the marking on the bin was almost gone so someone might have mistakenly took it. But this time, we clearly marked our house number on the bin with a thick, black waterproof marker. STILL, someone had the nerve to steal it! Of course, being the human nature that is, we occasionally let someone put their recyclables in our bin. I don’t mind that as our bin is never full, but steal it?! For the the light of me, I can’t figure out why?! Do they run out of storage boxes in their home or something? I am just lost for words. It never seizes to amaze me what people do these days.
Now, where’s the damn phone number to call for the replacement bin, again.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
It would seem somebody in your neighbourhood took a fancy for recycle bins..
Disturbing.. that.
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May 19th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Oh my.. Whats wrong with the world now? They got too much money or things for free yet the go stealing? Oh my, we’ve just been victims of thieves….
P.S. I wonder what they will do with the stolen bin? Put their toys in it?
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May 20th, 2007 at 12:34 am
cc,
That’s pretty stupid thief. haha! In Malaysia, I still can understand why people have to steal it because we need to pay for it if you ask for a replacement. But for your case…I really have nothing to say. haha!
I think that thief stole lots of stuff which he doesn’t have any place to store them. So, he need a bin to store them? haha! Weird….
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May 20th, 2007 at 4:45 am
shiat. can get one anytime and still wanna take yrs? damn sickening
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May 20th, 2007 at 5:03 am
woa…this is the first time i’ve ever heard of bin thief..lolz…guess he must have too many rubbish that he has no place to throw anymore.hmm..must be a person whose house is actually a dumpster..hmm..
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May 20th, 2007 at 5:57 am
I guessed the thief’s house must be a “rubbish bin” itself for having so many “bins”.
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May 20th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
next time tied the bins to ur leg so when someone steal it u wil know… ;D
ur bins nvr full tat y ppl wana steal it coz easy to carry…
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May 20th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Haha.
Maybe you need to install a CCTV near the bin.
Just kidding, just kidding.
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May 20th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
My former neighbor oso got weird behavior when it comes to recycle bins, she see her wan dirty, she pretend to pick up mine instead, then next week she make hers (which was mine to begin with) dirty then she swap again for her own back.
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May 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
aiks.. do u need to pay for replacement?
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May 20th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
hahahaha!!!
Thats damn hilarious!!! lolz!!!
Maybe the theif cant make do with 1 bin?
lolz!!!
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May 20th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
nazlihaffiz
Haha, that’s right!
Alex
I imagine they ran out of storage in their house. Haha.
Kok
That’s why I am very puzzled. Free replacement can be delivered to doorstep ler. Lidat also want to steal.
Sasha
Yea, Twice somemore!!!
De Pianist
Haha, I guess so.
Criz
I really wonder why they need so many bins.
ah nel
Haha, I don’t think they steal it before the collection, must have taken it after that.
yenjai
I think I need to write a disclaimer on the new bin or something.
FireHorse
Aiyo, where got people lidat one.So cheeky.
lasilasi
No, that’s why I am puzzled, the replacement bin is FREE!
Iwan
Really, I don’t know whether I should be angry or amused.
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May 21st, 2007 at 8:02 am
Forgot to tell u…I chained my bin to my fence in Penang
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July 15th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
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