Inorganic collections - ah, just gotta love 'em

[PrincessBandit]

That time of year again - inorganic collection. Ah, the sight of kids plundering the rubbish piles like wee scavengers in the slums of India; the oft-repeated "you god any more of da medal?" (from adults and kids alike); and last but not least the idiot woman who caused me to emergency brake this afternoon when she pulled into the centre of my street without warning all so she could reverse her huge arse van back closer for her husband to load more crap from the verge into her boot.

Can't wait for it to begone, along with all the roadside seagulls (well, they look like large seagulls picking through the tip...)

[yachtie10]

wish they would tell us when they are?
got heaps to put out and always miss them being overseas or out of town

[Latte]

wish they would tell us when they are?
got heaps to put out and always miss them being overseas or out of town

http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/E...llections.aspx

At the very least there's a number to call

[ynot slow]

Amazing the crap people grab,mind you my other half at time picked up a mean as dog kennel one year and still standing today.

[Ntoxcated]

Last year we just got one of the blowflies to back his truck down our driveway and he loaded the stuff straight in. Saved me the trouble of lugging it up to the verge

[nzspokes]

Lol, was just talking about that tonight. Our street went from tidyish to a crap storm in the time I was at work.

[HQfiend]

Hell if they don't take it away in the collection then put a "for sale $50" sign on it and it'll disappear overnight!

[PrincessBandit]

Hell if they don't take it away in the collection then put a "for sale $50" sign on it and it'll disappear overnight!

Nah, they're only interested in it for free.

[Katman]

the oft-repeated "you god any more of da medal?" (from adults and kids alike);

You may scoff but I just got $230 for a bin full of scrap metal the other day.

That would buy the average Manurewa seagull a fair few tinnies.

[White trash]

I was walking from a pub in Ellerslie back to a mates motel who was up visiting from Wellington a few years back. He commented on all the rubbish on the street and what was the deal (we don't have such a collection in Wellington). While explaining I came across a mean as pair of skis, so I grabbed em and continued walking.

They ended up going out in the Papakura inorganic a year later.

[Deano]

Hell if they don't take it away in the collection then put a "for sale $50" sign on it and it'll disappear overnight!

Nah, they're only interested in it for free.

Whoosh !!

[Maha]

Papatoetoe 2001... I moved into a lovely brick and tile two bedder...
It had some old loose carpet covering a nice polished floor so I rolled it up and put on the footpath, same with the formica/chrome table (dumbarse, should have kept that)...both things were gone within 20 mins.

One morning I saw an old 380 auto washer on the footpath and some guy with the lid up and his arms inside..I asked him if he wanted a hand to lift it but he said ''na bro I just want the wires''...

[gijoe1313]

What I hate about inorganic collection is how the seedier citizens use it as a grand excuse to loiter around neighbourhoods and gather intel for their next heists.

I remember one year when I had all my bikes outside on the driveway (I was doing a general wash and maintenance on them all). A dunger car rolled by and the occupants were squizzing out the street (and the occasional bit of flotsam and jetsam). When they rolled by, they saw the bikes and then must have assumed it was a biker gang pad ... they reversed ASAP back up the street and away!

And then there was a neighbour who left his lawnmower on the lawn, had run out of gas and he went back to his garage to get some more ... and some farker was about to load it into the back of their car! A quick shout of "Hoi! Get your hands off that!" bought enough time for the neighbour to come running back and retrieve his property!

[Swoop]

Out west there is the "new" initiative for inorganic collections. The council inbreds now set a date for the collection and you have to book and pay for your crap to be uplifted on that day.
Also, you have to keep your crap on the inside of your front fence.

Presumably the rest of D'Auckland will go that way since $$'s are involved for the council.

[nzspokes]

I took an old oven out this morning. By the time I got back with the fridge the oven was being loaded into a van.

Took the fridge to.