Council refuses to empty pensioner's garden waste bin - because he put cabbage stalks in it

With the ever increasing Property taxes and the lessening services and separate charges by local councils of services that should be paid for by the Property tax you would have thought the local councils would stop being so pedantic, but no they still think that they can treat everyone like fools.

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Council refuses to empty pensioner's garden waste bin - because he put cabbage stalks in it

By ANDREW LEVY

Date: 19th May 2008

They are green and grow in the garden - but woe betide anyone who puts the trimmings from a home-grown cabbage in their garden waste bin.

Retired milkman Barry Freezer made the mistake of dumping cabbage stalks in his bin and incurred the wrath of the council's waste collection supremos.

He says they treated him like a criminal and refused to collect his garden waste, claiming the cabbage trimmings were kitchen rubbish.

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