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Blooming council did not want to know when I reported a dead rat in my back garden !

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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Mchambers wrote: »
    Dustmen picked it up today. Next time I will fly tip it into the the nearest main road.

    Thanks for the update.....
  • powerful_Rogue
    powerful_Rogue Posts: 8,580 Forumite
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    Mchambers wrote: »
    Dustmen picked it up today. Next time I will fly tip it into the the nearest main road.

    Why would you do a stupid thing like that? Have you no respect for your local surroundings?
  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,530 Forumite
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    Mchambers wrote: »
    Dustmen picked it up today. Next time I will fly tip it into the the nearest main road.


    That would involve more handling than going to the bin.
  • Mr.Generous
    Mr.Generous Posts: 4,036 Forumite
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    You know those really annoying people who leave the bin out for days, or even indefinitely? That's the place for the next deceased rodent.
    Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.
  • Mchambers
    Mchambers Posts: 1,054 Forumite
    powerful_Rogue wrote: »
    Why would you do a stupid thing like that? Have you no respect for your local surroundings?

    Why should I when my council don't care lol ???
  • powerful_Rogue
    powerful_Rogue Posts: 8,580 Forumite
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    Mchambers wrote: »
    Why should I when my council don't care lol ???

    They collected your bins did they not?

    Why do you believe the council should send someone round to your premises to collect a single dead rat?
  • Mchambers
    Mchambers Posts: 1,054 Forumite
    Mr.Generous wrote: »
    You know those really annoying people who leave the bin out for days, or even indefinitely? That's the place for the next deceased rodent.
    Good idea lol !!
  • EachPenny
    EachPenny Posts: 12,239 Forumite
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    angryparcel wrote: »
    The public highway is the responsibility of the local authority and the last time i checked back lanes are public highway.

    A highway maintainable at public expense is the responsibility of the Highway Authority, which may or may not be the local authority. A back lane may or may not be a highway maintainable at public expense.

    So the local authority may be the Highway Authority and responsible for a back lane, but not necessarily.

    A Highway Authority is never responsible for clearing litter, which horse poo would probably be classed as.
    A person without lawful authority or excuse cannot deposit dung on a made-up carriageway (Highways Act Section 148)
    - but the horse can do what it likes.
    If any thing is so deposited on a highway as to constitute a nuisance and the authority has reasonable grounds for considering the thing unlawfully deposited on the highway constitutes a danger then they may remove the thing forthwith. (Highways Act Section 149)
    -but they don't have to.
    "In the future, everyone will be rich for 15 minutes"
  • TheGardener
    TheGardener Posts: 3,303 Forumite
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    The owners of the stables should be clearing up the poo - not the flaming council!!
  • Twopints
    Twopints Posts: 1,776 Forumite
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    TheGardener wrote: »
    The owners of the stables should be clearing up the poo - not the flaming council!!

    The people whingeing about the poo should clear it up instead of whingeing.
    Not even wrong
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