It does not take the pikeys long does it?

[ARW]

I put my old gas cooker outside on Sunday night.

Gone at 7.55am Monday.

[SteveW]

Round here the local paper reported that vans have been pulling up outside the charity shops when they are shut and taking stuff that people have left in the doorways for the next day. The shops are threatening that they will prosecute anyone who is caught - which could make for an interesting defence in court, as last year, the same shops were complaining about people leaving stuff in the doorways and were asking the council to do them for fly-tipping! I doubt that you could be successfully prosecuted for "stealing" fly-tipped rubbish.

SteveW

[Nthkentman]

I put my old gas cooker outside on Sunday night.

Gone at 7.55am Monday.

be retard Pikeys then... Round here if it's not gone in under 45 minutes it's either absolutely pissing down or night time.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , ARW writes

[fred]

In article , ARW writes

[ARW]

Yes.

[geoff]

In message , ARW writes

[Tim Streater]

garden?

[ARW]

Define night time-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

simple theft. Different story if you'd left at at the top of your out for rubbish collection or with a not for the scrapmetal men. Given their eyesight, a note on the cooker when they spotted it at the bottom of the garden would have been ok. Imagine you'd only left it out for the night, intending to re-use it somewhere else.

[Nightjar]

six months ago and nobody has taken it yet. I might have to take it to the tip myself.

Colin Bignell

[Bill Wright]

I hope you checked their waste carrier's licence. Otherwise you are liable to prosecution.

Bill

[ARW]

Bollocks. That was theft.

[harry]

I think you can. I heard of someone getting a caution for skip diving.

[David WE Roberts]

They knock on the door and ask if it is O.K. to take any scrap metal out of your skip. They all seem to be Eastern European with coffee coloured skin but driving different vehicles so I suspect some kind of large but quite well behaved organisation has infiltrated the area.

They also go away when you say 'No Thanks'.

No idea what happened to the traditional Pikeys though.

[Brian Gaff]

One should always ask first, as it may well be that contents of a skip are salvagable and part of the contract to remove. Brian

[Andy Burns]

Next door neighbour had to reclaim a flymo which had been left under a porch for a few minutes.

[Bill Wright]

I was pulling your leg, dear boy...

Bill

[philipuk]

Good Catholics not working on a sunday ;)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

They're in the City, shifting money around.