My regular dump is getting really picky - county residents only. I live a couple miles over the county border but have been using that site for decades.
Hi viz jobswoth on the gate said we weren't allowed, so we drove round the loop (emptying our garden waste in the appropriate bin on the way) .... all hell breaks loose with HiViz jobsworths everywhere, say they've taken car reg and reporting it to (their) council
They weren't busy ... there was only 1 car on the site.
Hey ho ! Hopefully we just get a snotty letter or something, possibly a fixed penalty is the worst they can dream up.
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Having said that, I have tried to have grown up conversations with similar individuals many times, but to little avail.
Change the uniform & leave the "I was only obeying orders" defence & we haven't really grown as human beings very much.
Similarly I found out recently that 'Pets at Home' are taking part in a recycling initiative that will enable previously non-recyclable metallised plastics that pet food pouches are made of. Great idea.
https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/promotions/recycle
I fully anticipate an encounter with a helpful jobsworth gatekeeper to stop me doing the right thing for some reason to do with 'the wrong plastic' like they are materials scientists & not working in a pet shop (nothing wrong with that as a job at all).
They're jolly friendly and helpful though, and appointments are easily booked.
its cos each council has a different waste strategy and how much money they spend on it. They don’t want argumentative people who pay their council tax elsewhere to be using their expensive paid for waste streams
except it’s true!
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I moved to Hampshire two years ago.
The jobsworths at mine aren't too bad, although I did have a run-in with one for putting an amp transformer in the metal skip... "That goes in electricals" he said. I explained politely that a transformer is at least 90% steel and copper, proportionately about the same metal content as a bicycle, of which there were several in the container already. "No, it's got wires, it's electrical." So next time I simply clipped all visible wires off as close to the transformer body as possible, and he was happy .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It ended when the UN peacekeepers stepped in and the natives finally decided to amalgamate into the new county of Bertshire (that name being preferred to Huckshire by an overwhelming 52%/48% referendum majority).
Future history lesson brought to you courtesy of @Sporky 's time machine.
But v2 was much more reliable.