I’m a bit peeved off with the Sligo Cunty Council at the moment. Herself, the better half, got a fine for littering … 150 spondulics. Let me be clear, we’re not the type of people to be throwing rubbish anywhere. We pay over €12 each week to have our rubbish carted away.
With the absence of any clear information on the ticket the best we can guess is that the fine relates to when herself dropped bottles off at the bottle bank. The bottle bank was full so she left the bottles beside it assuming they’d be collected. Now some will think she deserved the fine but I’ll wager as many people will think it’s a logical enough course of action to leave the bottles at the bank if it’s full rather than be carrying them home again.
Anyway Sligo Cunty Council accused her of “illegally dumping refuse” and fined her €150.
It’s a bit fucking rich of Sligo CoCo if you ask me, considering there’s streets in Sligo strewn with litter which look like they haven’t been cleaned in a year. It’s a bit fucking rich of Sligo CoCo if you ask me to fine people for dropping off bottles at the bottle bank if they’re too lazy to get the bloody bins emptied. It would be no harm if Sligo CoCo got off their civil servant asses and cleaned the streets of their town rather than fining people for trying to recycle their bottles.
Buggers. I’ll get my revenge yet!
How did they know who left the bottle off the bottle bank?
Did they see her? Did someone reported her (is she your wife)?
When I was in a B&B in Ardee, co Louth, the lady told me that one day she was baby-sitting the two kids of a friend of her, she took them with her while she had to shop and bought two candies for them.
The youngest kid threw the candy wrap on the sidewalk, someone saw that and assuming the kid was hers reported the license plate to the Garda. She was fined for 1,800 euros!
Maybe it happened the same thing, someone saw her…
Antonio,
They got us from the car registration. The fine was actually addressed to me but I wasn’t there so I assume they have cameras or maybe someone reported her, it’s difficult to know. Either way it stinks … though not as bad as €1800!!