CROFTON DOWNS WHEELIE BIN LEFT OPEN OVERNIGHT, NEIGHBOUR FILES "FORMAL CONCERN"
The lid was up eight centimetres. The street WhatsApp has not recovered.
A Crofton Downs woman is the subject of a formal "community concern" after leaving her yellow-lid wheelie bin open by eight centimetres on Tuesday night.
The bin sat on the verge outside a Heke Street property. A neighbour two doors down photographed it at 9.47pm. He sent the image to a street WhatsApp of fourteen households with the caption "thoughts?".
The bin's owner, Pip Harrington, 44, said she'd been carrying recycling out in the southerly. "The bloody lid blew back. I went inside to get my slippers. Came out and there's a man in a head torch taking photos. In my own driveway!"
The head-torch neighbour, Geoffrey Wills-Thompson, said the open lid risked attracting gulls and "the wrong sort of recycling" from people walking down from the cable car. He wants it on the next residents' association agenda under "bin hygiene".
A Wellington City Council spokesperson, asked if an open lid was a breach of anything, paused a long time and said: "No." Pressed further, they added: "Please don't make us come to Crofton Downs about this."
The WhatsApp has split into two factions and a breakaway chat called "Heke Street Realists". Pip's barista at Botanist — shoutout Manaia!! — says she came in Wednesday looking rough. The lid, at time of filing, is closed.
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Wouldn't have happened in '94. We had standards back then, not this furniture nonsense.
ropeable_dave
mate '94 was thirty years ago what are you on about
MumOf3_Riccarton
Honestly fair enough. Council inorganic is Thursday and my berm is a war zone anyway.
Margaret_F
Gerald would have sorted it with one phone call to the council.
BarryBishopdale
Bloody typical. And while we are at it, the council has been useless since 1987. Cyclists probably love this.
Margaret_F
Reminds me of Gerald. He would have had opinions about the pallet, I can tell you that.
couchgremlin
Lol
long_winded_garry
I remember when the whole street used to argue about whose turn it was to mow the berm and now we cannot even agree on a mattress without someone invoking the Resource Management Act for forty minutes straight like it is a royal commission.