My dad, who is 80 years old and is 10st of bone and gristle, pulled his green bin, which was full of privet and grass cuttings, off his front, on to his drive and down the footpath in front of his house.
He pulled it across the grass verge and placed it with its wheels facing out on to the road. He didn't drag it, he tipped it up and pulled it properly. Guess what.
He got back from town to find the bin in the same spot with a label on the top sayi
ng it was too heavy to move safely for the bin men to empty it. What a joke!
What do you think? Post your comments below.The bin men only had to move the bin four paces backwards, turn it to sideways and put it on to the lifting gear. What kind of weak specimen of bin men have we got? This is ridiculous.
How can an 80 year old man move a bin all that way, on his own, for some fit bloke at least half his age to say: "Can't move that. It's too heavy."
I and a lot of other people pay taxes for them to move the bins, heavy or not.
What next? A fireman not going into a fire because it's hot? A policeman who won't arrest a man in case he gets hurt? An ambulanceman not attending a crash scene in case there might be blood?
Bin men be ashamed of yourselves.
JH, SheffieldREAD MOREYour letters.
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