Expat Texan

How things will be once the environazis gain the control they so desperately want.

A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.

Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules.

Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste.

Mr Woodward made the mistake of putting the ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the blue bin when they should have gone in the green box.

Served his country.  95 years old, almost blind.  And treated like trash for the heinous crime of mixing up the recycling.  Petty beaurocrats love nothing more than weilding their awesome powers over the weak and helpless.  Prats.

When binmen inspected the blue bin, they refused to empty it and attached a tag to it warning him not to break the rules again.

And when his daughter rang Norwich City Council to explain that he was baffled by the new regime, she was told that “rules have to be obeyed”.

Yes, the rules have to be obeyed.  Especially if we can use our powers of supreme bossiness to make a 95 year old man follow our rules - whether he has the capacity to understand them or not.  Read the comments - the citizens of the UK are, let’s jsut say, displeased.  The recurring question - “how come our tax dollars are being used to pay these petty despots to boss us around?”.  Nothing like giving small, petty people a taste of power to allow their incipient assholery to grow and manifest to its fullest potential.