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    Council fines couple £400 for throwing away single envelope in public bin

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    1. Fox_9810 on

      Shame on Stoke-on-Trent ngl. I hope they get voted out at the next election, whoever is in power

    2. BartholomewKnightIII on

      Heinous crimes need dealing with, I hope the council sends them to gitmo…

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      Joking aside, what the fuck!

    3. je97 on

      Stoke Council can do that but can’t deal with randm druggy fights taking place at the buzzing active time of 8 AM on a Thursday morning, never mind the fact that the roads are like driving in a pothole showroom in some areas.

    4. catdog5566cat on

      >”I have received a letter from the council with a fine of £200 and my husband has received one too because apparently we’re both to blame. It is for an empty envelope inside a bin

      I think you know where the envelope for this letter needs to go…

    5. Cam2910 on

      >littering offence because household waste cannot be placed in a public bin

      Surely that’s going to be an easy argument. It wasn’t waste until she left her home and opened the letter, so it’s not household waste.

      Otherwise, people could be fined for bringing a bottle of water from home and putting it in a public bin when they’re done with it.

    6. mitchanium on

      This stuff is frustrating but Sadly this will be the future moving forward in an attempt to recoup money for many councils who are strapped for cash.

      Road tolls, stricter rules on everything and all in an attempt to generate money.

      Not that I disagree with it, but my gut is telling me that labour will strongly encourage this too when they’re in power, especially since they’ve vetoed any real way to make money available by other means.

      The thing is, Blair did this with speed vans etc….and that did prove so genuinely unpopular that they halted this work.

      If it really has to be done then it’s got to be done in a fair manner and not a ‘must make cash/abuse rules and processes to make cash’ directive.

    7. spackysteve on

      Exactly the kind of jobsworth pricks that need to be sacked. Are they paying someone to go through the litter to catch people?

      And talking about prison if they refuse to pay the fine? The council officer doing this needs to go to prison for abuse of public office.

      I hope they put as much effort into punishing fly tippers.

    8. Quiet-Hawk-2862 on

      What is it about local councils that attracts petty authoritarian numpties? I swear, they’d have us all pissing in jars twice a week if they thought they’d get away with it

    9. yorkshirefrog on

      A public waste offence has definitely been committed here – the council wasting public funds and everyone’s time.

    10. cazza3008x on

      Shame the council doesn’t take action regarding the huge pile of rubbish left behind by a few caravans in Stoke last week

    11. Raybloodypurchase198 on

      We need to hire a common sense committee in this country because it’s just getting absurd what we hear about these days.

    12. Djinjja-Ninja on

      Wow. I wonder what sort of fine I would have gotten if I was caught putting a dead seagull in a public bin (which I had to do last week).

    15. freakofspade on

      Outside my local Morrisons, I recently found bags of dumped, opened mail – bank statements, broadband statements… all sorts of things. Private information about people from Sunderland, Hartlepool, Leeds to name but a few places. I doubt these folk were responsible for/expected their mail to end up dumped in the street but I guess Stoke-On-Trent Council would merrily fine them all too had it happened there.

    16. PostAboveIsBullshit on

      the people that enforce these fines hang out in city centres looking for even the slightest of lawbreakers. All you gotta do is ignore them and not give names. They’re council, not police, and don’t have authority to stop you or get your name.

    17. Geoffstibbons on

      Is it a bit like when my council throw recycling bags onto my property instead of putting them through my letterbox?

    18. MotherEastern3051 on

      Stoke on Trent City Council still being absolute cretins instead of doing their job to a minimally adequate standard I see.

    19. 613663141 on

      How can two people be guilty of the same offence? Did they simultaneously place the envelope in the bin together?

    20. Intelligent_Prize_12 on

      Our council tax must only be used to subsidise the waste disposal costs of multi million pounds business. No bin use for the small man.

    21. RhythmicRampage on

      She’s can’t do that but the water companys can pump shit out of our taps and it’s “A mistake”.

    22. mariegriffiths on

      So what if someone pint out the some letters with the addresses of local council members put them in a bag with some rubbish maybe even with some asbestos with a warning then dump it in a litter bin of an agent  council?

    23. BigCj34 on

      Everyone should invest in a shredder. Unless the council are going to piece together the shreds as well…