Post by stavros on Nov 19, 2010 19:26:26 GMT 1
A truly extraordinary story from Dorset, just spotted on the Beeb:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11793136
A public spirited member of the public saw TV sets dumped by the roadside and took them to the tip.
Did the council jobsworths say "Thankyou and well done!"?
Their quibble that it was not this man's household waste is just sheer I've-got-my-council-rule-book stupidity. It was someone's waste, surely?
And then go on to say that the man should have reported it (to who?) so that the council could "investigate" is just adding more insane official bumbledom. What would they do? Send out an inspector to inspect, an elf'n'safety officer to carry out a risk assessment, two men to travel to the scene of the crime, all at taxpayer's expense, to carry off the offending articles to the self-same tip that refused them?
You could turn it into a Monty Python sketch!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11793136
A public spirited member of the public saw TV sets dumped by the roadside and took them to the tip.
Did the council jobsworths say "Thankyou and well done!"?
Their quibble that it was not this man's household waste is just sheer I've-got-my-council-rule-book stupidity. It was someone's waste, surely?
And then go on to say that the man should have reported it (to who?) so that the council could "investigate" is just adding more insane official bumbledom. What would they do? Send out an inspector to inspect, an elf'n'safety officer to carry out a risk assessment, two men to travel to the scene of the crime, all at taxpayer's expense, to carry off the offending articles to the self-same tip that refused them?
You could turn it into a Monty Python sketch!
