Fly tipping : If something really annoys you, complain, then do something about it
Saturday Jun 20, 2009
While I have quite liberal politics, I would vote for making fly tipping the only crime to carry a manadatory captial offense. Harsh, but fair.
I had reported a caravan dumped near Nant-y-Moch a few times, once via the web site linked from here. It is on a very frequently used mountain bike trail and I have heard a lot of people complain that it looks a mess.
The caravan which had been dumped about 18 months ago was now being distributed around a valley which has a Welsh name which translates into "the nose of the bellows", so your can imagine how windy it gets up there in a storm. I would have though the local council was responsible for clearing it up, but seems not. The Ceredigion highways department do not have a lorry which could get to the site, so I offered to turn up with tractor and trailer and move it to the road for the Highways Department to dispose of which was arranged by a Ceregidion Environmental Health Officer.
Some by a round about route a collective of the farmer, myself, two local police off duty and 2 council officials, also in their own time, decided it was time for "JFDI".
The before
and the after with the 2 police officers and the farmer.
The Council Officers turned up after the remains were loaded on the trailer, so missed Tea and a stove cooked bacon butty, but they should take much credit for getting all the parties together.
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