Mr Davies’s neighbour Ann said: “£150 is a lot of money for a pensioner. You cannot speak to the council on the phone, it has to be [by] email. Not everyone has the internet. Hopefully when people realise what Alan is being put through the council will back down.”
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The grandfather said he drove off, forgetting to pick up his walking stick and a bag with his cushion inside, which he had placed by the roadside.Mr Davies claims Walsall Council tracked him down after trawling through local CCTV footage.
He said council officers found his address by using his car’s number plate and sent him the fine last week.
Say, we had divisions within such councils. And had some sort of headcount, a poll, to decide upon a rep from such a division to the council? Ooooh, one for every 5,000 folk or so? Somone they could go to to be their delegate to that council?
Could we call them “counsellor” do you think?
The unstoppable juggernaut of bureaucracy at work.
They’ve probably been after him for years for showing the council up.
– Could we call them “counsellor” do you think?
Not sure I’d take your council on that.
When Councils are allegedly “under-funded”, and can’t afford to fill potholes in roads etc, this Council is paying for jobsworths to designate lost property as litter and then pursue and fine the owner of the lost property.
And, as Otto says, the Council has probably had the old boy in their sights for a long time.
Thank God he didn’t have a pet squirrel!
Walsall Council are just as evil as the NY authorities that killed Peanut the squirrel.
Members of a councIl are councIllors.
And one per 5000? Pah! When I was first elected we had wards of 13,500 electors, 18,000 people. Ok, they were 3-member wards so you could call it 6000 per councillor. Where I now live, after reorganisation we have 1-member divisions of 7,500.
Has little to do with the elected council, and everything with the local appointed council officers.
No doubt the old duffer has shown up those hallowed scions of bureaucratic efficiency a number of times over the past years for not doing exactly what they’ve done here. By doing their appointed job for them.
Someone must have spent an inordinate amount of time and effort to trace that walking cane.
The amount of vehemence behind it must be substantial, given that that’s almost like actual… work. From a bureaucrat… Makes one think…
So at least we have one proof point they do actually know how to search CCTV footage when they want to!
‘Someone must have spent an inordinate amount of time and effort to trace that walking cane.
The amount of vehemence behind it must be substantial, given that that’s almost like actual… work. From a bureaucrat… Makes one think…’
As a former bureaucrat Grikath, it does make me think you must be right!!
It’s a great pity that philanthropists don’t take up cases like this. Not just to pay the old boy’s fine but to lead the council a merry dance through the courts.
The only way to change incentives in the future is to wield a cudgel about the past.
One council I know forbids staff from looking out of the window in the morning. Why?
Because if they do, then there’s nothing left for them to do in the afternoon!
Hasn’t the council employee admitted stealing by finding?
Return the lost property at once or go to jail!
But not likely under TTK
Let me guess, if the CCTV had shown a transit van shoving old tyres out the back, and was found to be located at a local Caravan Utilising Nomadic Traveller site, nothing would have been done at all.
My council issues yearly to every household a little card which shows for the year from 1st Nov to 31st Oct the fortnightly rota for the bin men to collect ordinary rubbish or “recyclable” rubbish. Last year the new card was sent out in the new year and there is no sign of 2024/25 card so far.
Imagine being so hard pressed doing nothing that the passing of a year comes as a complete surprise!
TMB
Why the hell do they need to send out the card.
Isn’t there a simple roster system that everyone knows. Or if they don’t, they can look it up on the internet.
Until earlier this year I worked in the biggest sh****e in the Islamic Republic of Bradistan…litter picking, public bins, fly tips etc
One area of Bradford Moor ward was known as the Maze or the Bronx. There are a team of volunteers on there, 3 or 4 tops, that only litter pick 4 streets…yet on a daily basis we would be driving through and picking 20-30 bags. On the days we did that area you’d be lucky to 10, and that included the bins.
We knew, the Neighbourhood and Enforcement Wardens knew, the management knew they cleaning gardens, other areas for pay but because they were using Clowncil bags they had to be collected.
The Ward Clowncillors loved this though, a photo opportunity every few weeks.
If £150 is a lot of money a pensioner then what the fuck were you doing with all that time before you became a pensioner?