Mine got stolen. The city gave me a new one gratis. That got stolen. This time the city wants to charge me $100 for a new one. So I stole somebody else’s. Problem solved.
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Mine got stolen. I don’t know where they come from or how to get a new one. It would never occur to me to call the city. So I stole somebody else’s. Problem solved.
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If you live near ruralia, I bet those bins are darn handy on a ranch or farm. Having a half-dozen of those around the barn might come in real handy. Lotta ways to accumulate those things that don’t involve paying for them.
The bins legitimately fail, get smashed by hit and run drivers, catch fire, etc. at some rate. Which produces a continuous stream of people who need a new one. Not everybody is skilled at being a municipal citizen.
Even nailed down they still might, they’ll just take what it’s nailed to.
I realize bins would not be so handy chained or nailed down.
My sister has a big ol’ oak tree in her front lawn. She likes to have a set of chairs out there. It’s cute to her, I suppose. I can’t tell you how many have walked away.
She chained them to cement blocks they just stole ‘em as well.
She says she’d chain them to the old oak but they’d cut the tree down swipe that too.
Our fair city issued us more big rolling bins than we needed [3 each trash and recycling for several 3 story rentals that are actually only two units] - the spare 95 gallon recycle cans make great garden supply storage in the back yard, and I rigged one clean one as a plunge pool during our 105°F August week, filling from a downspout on the shady side of the house. Right now I’ve got one near the driveway keeping our salt n’ sand dry and handy on a snowy 15° day while we reminisce about that August. We don’t discard much food waste [compost and worm bins!] so even our trash/garbage cans are pretty civilized, but the neighbor’s trash cans get crawly and foul in the summer - there are folks who will consider washing their trash cans, and there are folks who are baffled that such is even a concept…our clean ones have been known to end up in their alley.
Yes, this. We’ve had several occasions where we’ve found our recycling bins down the street. There’s been some weeks we haven’t put recycling out because the winds have been so strong.
He paints the arrows. Works for the producer of streets. Every one that works for the director are acting like they are fixing the street. Mostly they are on lunch break.