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#3242394 29-May-2024 20:54

Many department stores and malls still survive online shopping because they are destinations in themselves. S&C may have survived if you could park nearby and didn't have to step around ranting piss soaked pan handlers. Imagine taking your partner and kids through that gauntlet.

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#3242400 29-May-2024 21:40

Handsomedan:

Trees that not only shed their leaves, but also any number of other matter - berries, flowers and small branches.
Next door neighbour has a tree that is a year-round pest. She's having it trimmed, but it needs killing off. It is horrible.

Our old place had a tree (type of magnolia i think) that must have annoyed the neighbour so much with its litter she offered to pay someone to trim it. It died the next year

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#3242459 29-May-2024 23:49

johno1234: Many department stores and malls still survive online shopping because they are destinations in themselves. S&C may have survived if you could park nearby and didn't have to step around ranting piss soaked pan handlers. Imagine taking your partner and kids through that gauntlet.

Got any better ideas to fix vagrancy?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/300274183/us-man-jailed-for-poisoning-eight-homeless-people-so-he-could-film-their-reaction

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/268423/ex-council-worker-jailed-for-poison-attempt

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/homeless-man-beating-sexual-assault-santa-ana/3279876/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/28/homeless-man-cried-why-are-you-doing-this-to-me-as-he-was-beaten-to-death-court-told

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/15/hostility-toward-homeless-scott-bryan-beating-death-montana/70404297007/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-68023669

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ken-lee-toronto-homeless-teen-girls-b2260230.html

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#3242563 30-May-2024 09:14

People who put their bins out the night before collection day when gale force winds are present and predicted to last throughout the night.

Was subjected to the sound of recycling and rubbish bowling down the street for most of last night. No sign of the culprits coming to collect their stuff now the worst of the wind has passed.

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#3242615 30-May-2024 09:31

Check with your council, some supply a rubber clip that holds wheelie bin lids down. If you have to buy them they are about $15 from Safewaste.

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#3242618 30-May-2024 09:35

johno1234:

Handsomedan:

Trees that not only shed their leaves, but also any number of other matter - berries, flowers and small branches.
Next door neighbour has a tree that is a year-round pest. She's having it trimmed, but it needs killing off. It is horrible.

Have you suggested to the neighbour that it might be better gone? Also, you are entitled to place fallen leaves and branches from a neighbour's tree onto their property:

https://www.cab.org.nz/article/KB00001152

I was standing on the footpath with her as she was telling her arborist/landscaper to cut it back from the boundary.
I made my case pretty clearly, but the trimming (while extensive) was still just trimming, as the arborist said any more and the tree won't survive.
I said that would be the best case scenario - neighbour was mildly amused, but clearly wasn;t going to risk the death of her favourite tree - despite the fact that she doesn;t live there anymore and it's in a corner of her property that means her house gets no benefit from it (there are provacy hedges in that corner).

At least they cut a bit away and tidied up, but after last night's winds, it has left a lot more leaves and seed pods everywhere again.

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#3242623 30-May-2024 09:42

Dingbatt:

People who put their bins out the night before collection day when gale force winds are present and predicted to last throughout the night.

Was subjected to the sound of recycling and rubbish bowling down the street for most of last night. No sign of the culprits coming to collect their stuff now the worst of the wind has passed.

Not everyone is awake or able to put them out in the morning. This is really on the council for not providing a storm proof rubbish collection method with things like perhaps lids that close properly on bins.

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#3242625 30-May-2024 09:45

richms:

Dingbatt:

People who put their bins out the night before collection day when gale force winds are present and predicted to last throughout the night.

Was subjected to the sound of recycling and rubbish bowling down the street for most of last night. No sign of the culprits coming to collect their stuff now the worst of the wind has passed.

Not everyone is awake or able to put them out in the morning. This is really on the council for not providing a storm proof rubbish collection method with things like perhaps lids that close properly on bins.

My parents in Mosgiel recently received new bins and they had a little rubber contraption attached to the lid that hooked it closed - I assume for the purposes of preventing wind blowing them open.
Great idea.

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#3242630 30-May-2024 09:58

Dingbatt:

People who put their bins out the night before collection day when gale force winds are present and predicted to last throughout the night.

Was subjected to the sound of recycling and rubbish bowling down the street for most of last night. No sign of the culprits coming to collect their stuff now the worst of the wind has passed.

A neighbour up woke up this morning to a smashed rear windscreen and a bin part lodge in the hatch back with the contents spilling into said hatch back.

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#3242650 30-May-2024 10:35

Bung:

Check with your council, some supply a rubber clip that holds wheelie bin lids down. If you have to buy them they are about $15 from Safewaste.

What happens when the trucks lifts the bin and tries to empty it?

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3242651 30-May-2024 10:43

eracode:

Bung:

Check with your council, some supply a rubber clip that holds wheelie bin lids down. If you have to buy them they are about $15 from Safewaste.

What happens when the trucks lifts the bin and tries to empty it?

I believe they are strong enough to hold the lid in place but not strong enough to hold the rubbish pushing the lid open as they are upended into the truck and will flex/release at that point.

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#3242652 30-May-2024 10:49

^^ correct. 1 clip good 2 clips maybe too many if there isn't much in the bin. The arm that lifts the bin isn't a subtle thing, it gives the bin a fair wack when it flips over.

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#3242661 30-May-2024 11:23

richms:

Dingbatt:

People who put their bins out the night before collection day when gale force winds are present and predicted to last throughout the night.

Was subjected to the sound of recycling and rubbish bowling down the street for most of last night. No sign of the culprits coming to collect their stuff now the worst of the wind has passed.

Not everyone is awake or able to put them out in the morning. This is really on the council for not providing a storm proof rubbish collection method with things like perhaps lids that close properly on bins.

Yeap, sure. The council should account for people’s stupidity. And it’s pretty hard to close an over full bin regardless of the mechanism (yes I know you aren’t supposed to overfill your bin - see second sentence above). Our bins are collected about midday, so if you’re not awake by then……..

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#3242665 30-May-2024 11:31

geoffwnz:

I believe they are strong enough to hold the lid in place but not strong enough to hold the rubbish pushing the lid open as they are upended into the truck and will flex/release at that point.

Yeah we have those in Lower Hutt, attached to the bin (pretty essential in the Wellington region). Holds the lid down but the lid comes open once the truck lifts it upside down.

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#3242667 30-May-2024 11:37

Our council provides them FOC if you want them.

Just saw a Facebook post from them yesterday reminding people they can go and get them from the council offices.

Might go get one today.

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