Our road is exactly the same as it was yesterday when it was decided that is was not safe to do a kerb collection !!!!!. Maybe they want to get out to collect their xmas tips and stuff health and safety !!

Christ on a bike. No suprise who the first two to moan about them now collecting the bins.

Get a life the pair of you.

NOW all the moaning bleeders will sleep safe and sound tonite knowing their bin will get emptied in the morning!!!!
What next the window cleaner wont clean my windows!!!tut,tut.

The thing is, everyone down my street put their bins out on Tuesday and have put them back. If they didn't check that they weren't being collected on Tuesday, will they check that they are being collected tomorrow?

I agree but not to the extent that we see now. A number of 'claims' today are fraudulent. This should not be encouraged.

Far too many are fraudulent or exaggerated IMO. A girl in work came in the other day whooping and hollering. Someone asked what had happened to make her so happy. She said she'd had another car run into the back of her's. Someone asked again what had happened to make her so happy. She replied that she had told the police she'd hurt her neck and had booked a doctor's appointment and was going 'to make thousands'. Actual damage to car? An almost unnoticable mark on the bumper. She then gleefully passed her Christmas cards out saying she was taking this week off because of her 'injuries'. She was literally skipping about the place.

I told the Directors to sack her, they agreed but were told off by the group HR manager because 'the company might get sued' if they sacked her. The stupid thing is she did exactly the same thing about a year ago and got thousands from that.

I'd say that reaction (Minus the blondeness and openness about what she was doing) was pretty typical. Get a Doc's appointment, moan about neck pain, get a note mentioning whiplash (Unprovable whether or not it's genuine, the Doc probably doesn't care), perps insurace company has to fork out thousands for blonde girl's holiday.

I've had two payouts for whiplash. Going rate is £1,500-2,000 settlement for out of court settlement in my experience.

The issue is a known flaw within the Civil Legal system due to the costs of defending a claim. The insurers would rather pay out a settlement compensation rather than incur the costs and risks of litigation. This has encouraged the activity you describe above.

Having said that if the other driver had shown more care and attention with adequate stopping distances then none of it would have happened.

mine hasn't been emptied yet....

mine has..no problems...one up for common sense

i take it back... the black one has been emptied... just the blue one now.. which is vitally important, as its where all my empty cans and bottles will be going... and its currently full.

mine has, though its one of about 3 in our street that actually got put out.


Sidenote, how come i can ignore 2 alarms in my bed room yet the slight rumble of a bin wagon at the end of my street when i haven't put it out motivates me like a mofo?