Help! The Flying Wheelie Bin

System

CNewburn wrote: »

@!!!!!! I don't expect people to wait whole day for their bin man, ours comes on the same time at least within the hour of normal service. My point is and there is no need to you to reply in such a nasty way is that it is just common sense that if the weather is like what it was last week I would like a sensible person would AT LEAST make sure I bring my bin in as soon as the bin man emptied it. This homeowner is one of these people that always looks out from their window coz people keep on letting their dog !!!! on their driveway and yes I know this coz I see her posting on fb ALL the time moaning about something outside her house.

So, I know that I am losing a battle here but I guess an apology about it would be nice for all the reason that I have given. If I was in her shoes I would have apologized and maybe asked to pay for it . It is just a decent way to do.

I wasn't being nasty but just trying to reinforce what EVERYBODY ELSE is saying but you keep ignoring.

Maybe at some point it will sink in that nobody has been negligent. Nobody has acted inconsiderately and YOU have to suck it up, get your vehicle repaired under your insurance (or not as the case may be).

You keep saying about the homeowner apologising. Why? And as for paying for the damage - not a hope. Let's turn it on its head. Are you going to apologise for getting in the way of their bin and damaging it?


TBH I don't think you are going to listen to anything people say on this thread unless they agree with you which I doubt will happen.


Maybe somebody really needs to get nasty with you just to make it sink in. otherwise everybody on here is :wall:

CNewburn

@!!!!!! Didnt you read my replies on other comments? I said its more likely that I am going nowhere on this case since there is a grey are with situations like this and I am not saying I am NOT taking all the advice on board. and with apologising part, I think it is at least the decent way to do like say "Im sorry it dented your car but this is out of my control" and I didn't even get that. For me it's more of principle than their money to be honest(even getting accidentally hit by a trolley at a supermarket you get an instant apology). Anyways thank you for your replies.I do appreciate the time

Kim_kim

CNewburn wrote: »

@!!!!!! Didnt you read my replies on other comments? I said its more likely that I am going nowhere on this case since there is a grey are with situations like this and I am not saying I am NOT taking all the advice on board. and with apologising part, I think it is at least the decent way to do like say "Im sorry it dented your car but this is out of my control" and I didn't even get that. For me it's more of principle than their money to be honest(even getting accidentally hit by a trolley at a supermarket you get an instant apology). Anyways thank you for your replies.I do appreciate the time

They may not want to apologise in case they think it in anyway admits liability. I hope this is the case.

I know you're annoyed because it could be avoided, but if you had a rule that the householder was liable if they were in, but not of they weren't you would be in a real grey area & it would be impossible to work. What if they were in but in bed sick...... It's too wide open.

System

CNewburn wrote: »

@!!!!!! Didnt you read my replies on other comments? I said its more likely that I am going nowhere on this case since there is a grey are with situations like this and I am not saying I am NOT taking all the advice on board. and with apologising part, I think it is at least the decent way to do like say "Im sorry it dented your car but this is out of my control" and I didn't even get that. For me it's more of principle than their money to be honest(even getting accidentally hit by a trolley at a supermarket you get an instant apology). Anyways thank you for your replies.I do appreciate the time

There is no grey area.
Nobody has been negligent.

Yet again, why should the apologise? A better way would possibly be if they said 'It's a shame that it dented your car' They do not have to apologise!

Supermarket trolley is a bad example and nothing at all like this. Trolleys are normally under the control and responsibility of someone, the wheelie bin was neither.

If you really want platitudes then I'm sorry that the bin hit your car. Do you feel better now?

CNewburn

@kim Kim - I do think I won't get even the apology I just wonder where is the decency of people now a days. I never claimed anything in my life and I'm not like other people who moans about everything . This car have a very sentimental value to us its not just a car that's why I am so upset and maybe trying if there is someway to fix it. And I think it's just unfair shedding money for something that I didnt do

Thanks again for the comment .

CNewburn

Yes !!!!!! I feel a bit better, it isn't that hard isn't it? But then again they are not you

Should we just go to the pub and just drink it over :beer: :rotfl:

keith1950

CNewburn....this incident was caused by the wind so could basically be called. " an act of god" as they used to say.
Sorry but you are going to get nowhere with this so you need to weigh up whether to claim on your own insurance or pay for it yourself without involving your insurance.

magpiecottage

MoneyMission2015 wrote: »

You say the owner is responsible for putting back in safe place as soon as possible - there could be any number of reasons why the wife had not done it. She could have been in the shower, getting kids ready for school etc, which means it wasn't possible to bring it in.

Or even decided it was so windy that it wasn't safe to go out an retrieve it - after all if a flying wheeliebin can damage a car that is made of metal, it is not going to do a lot of good to a soft bag of skin and bones that it might hit.

Aretnap

CNewburn wrote: »

And I think it's just unfair shedding money for something that I didnt do

We have to pay for things that we didn't do all the time. I got a nail in my tyre a few months ago - that wasn't my fault but it still cost me about fifty quid for a new tyre. Ditto the stone that cracked my windscreen a few years back. And as for that storm that blew my guttering down... who can I claim off for that?

Some things in life are nobody's fault in particular and are just bad luck. You can't expect someone else to pay for every bit of misfortune that befalls you in life. So if you want to be protected against bad luck it's up to you to take out insurance against it.

societys_child

CNewburn wrote: »

And I think it's just unfair shedding money for something that I didnt do

. . . and the home owner didn't do and the council didn't do.

You appear to know a lot about the home owners, so it would appear you live quite close. Do you live far from the school?

*A recent gale brought a number of ridge tiles and roof tiles from my neighbours garage crashing down onto my drive. Thankfully I wasn't out there recovering my bin from the roadside at the time . . .