A man has been fined £400 for fly-tipping after leaving a bag of clothes outside a charity shop.
Jan Goodey, 60, dropped the donations in front of Shabitat in Brighton one morning in June before heading off to work.
He later received the £400 penalty along with a letter accusing him of fly-tipping.
Lost the appeal too, finally omeon rescinded the fine. Ho well, all’s well that ends well.
Councillor Tim Rowkins, a BHCC cabinet member for net zero and environmental services, said the charity shop had contacted the council to report Mr Goodey’s donation as a fly-tip.
Well, yes, guess who dobbed him in?
Some shops ask you not to leave stuff on their door step or post through the door.
Brighton though. Expect twattery on every corner.
“Expect twattery on every corner”…and a dense cloud of smug.
This story would appear to have a strong element of twattery. Looking at the site, Shabitat has it’s opening hours proudly displayed in big friendly letters, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.
This geezer dropped the stuff off at 9:30 Monday morning, apparently.
How strange.
What did he drop off, an old mattress with a few stains on it? Some bits of plasterboard and a couple of old tyres? A pallet?
Or perhaps some stuff from Primark which was deemed too ‘common’ by the staff……….
All charity shops have a sign in the window telling people not to drop donations off when the shop is closed, so my tiny violin isn’t even coming out for this chap.
Julia, I believe they post that sign because the local ne’er do wells would ‘liberate’ the donations…..
@ Julia
Except that he dropped off the clothes when the shop said that it would be open …
If only they were this zealous with actual fly tippers. I’m often out walking and come across a huge pile of trash in the middle of nowhere. It must be more effort to get it there than dispose of it properly.
Same here, you can walk miles into beautiful countryside and come across an old sofa or mattress….
You obviously aren’t a Geologist or Geographer. Surely they are just ‘benches’ or ‘inclined bedding’ …
Brighton? Had it been Hove we could have had great fun suggesting who dobbed him in.
Or, as we say in civilised latitudes, who cliped on him.
Mr Goodey was arrested in 2022 for disrupting traffic on the M25 during a Just Stop Oil protest.
They will eat their own.
Pass the popcorn.
“dobbed him in” – modern english, probably unknown a few decades ago – borrowed from the Aussies afaik and a phrasal verb to boot.
And Brighton, full of commies, queers and smack, they should never have changed the name from Brighthelmstone
I once was a bit in love with a junkie(ess) from Brighton – hundred miles of bad road – chaos and expense and a nasty rash.