dirty accy

[fireman]

Whist in Paris recently wesaw aspecially adapted motor cycle. It was on the look out for dog mess. When the rider saw some mess a specially designed device on the bike picked it up, sprayed the pavement with disinfectant and scrubbed it. We are in a backward country compared with some other 's.

[Busman747]

[QUOTE=fireman] and why oh why is the fashion of spitting making a big comeback. /QUOTE]


I am trying not to be racist by pointing this out.......but the art of spitting in the street to me stems from the Asian community and in particular the older generation of men. They are not the only ones to do this of course, but I have noticed this behaviour both here and in Luton....In America circa 1840, this habit was because of "chewing tobacco" I have often wondered if the Asian community of today partake in something similar?

[Billcat]

There are still a lot of young folks (mostly young men) in the USA who favor the so-called "Smokeless Tobacco." Nothing more disgusting than discovering a soda can one of the young men has been using as a portable spittoon! Chewing tobacco is realy a nasty habit - and it makes their teeth nasty-looking as well.

[jiggy]

yes make em clean up the streets n paks n stuff thatl keep the kids busy on a satday mornin

[Terry]

As Margaret says, Oz has a national clean up day despite the fact that the place is relatively clean from rubbish. Also what helps is the fact that we have on the spot fines of aus$150.00 or more (depending on the amount and state)dished out to anyone caught. This includes indicriminately throwing cigarette butts and lolly papers onto the ground or where ever. Maybe that would help

providing you got your local council off their butts and started imposing fines for littering

[fireman]

You hit the nail on the head, our local council don't understand what getting off their butts mean. They give us the impression that they are in it for what they can get out of it, not what they can put into it as they promise when they solicit our vote.

[entwisi]

The council are currently recruiting more street sweepers.

I remember a year or so ago I was waiting outside Birthday shop whilst SWMBO was buying my birthday card. I women came out of the shop with her 5 kids. One threw her ice cream wrapper on tehfloor about 18" from a bin so I said 'Do you mind picking that up and putting it in the bin?' Her mother had a go at me for telling her kid off!!

With people like that we will never win the battle.

[cashman]

all the side streets are not the same in that area,some are dirty,some are not,the day the thread was posted a sweeper wagon was coming down our road,as it does weekly,so you can start by stating true fact.also you can attend the local meetings with the council and bring up any complaints,also the area is part of a big regeneration project of which their have been 2 recent meetings,what was stated at them should hopefully go some way to solving these problems,hope that goes someway to answer your question fireman.

[fireman]

I purposely did not mention any particular streets and did say that not all are the same. A lot of people dotake pride in the area they live in but they are let dowen by the one's that don't.That applies to every street in every area. Including yours and mine Cashman. I know you will agree with me that the town is quite a mess at the moment, and that the thread was directed at the people who discard rubbish anywhere but in the provided places, and not at the people who live in them and try to keep on top of the area.

[Billcat]

Originally Posted by fireman

A lot of people dotake pride in the area they live in but they are let dowen by the one's that don't.That applies to every street in every area.

Of course, if the street is kept free of trash, people are less likely to litter. Conversely, if the area is strewn with litter, many folks will take it as a message that one more bit of trash will not make things any worse - and a downward spiral begins!

[fireman]

Can I just make a piont. This thread was about the prawns who gob, drop sh-t, let dogs sh-t and leave it for all to enjoy, and the idiots that think they have a god given right to throw what they want, where they want, anytime they want and ruin this town for the ones who try to keep it nice. I am sure that does not apply to anyone reading this, as the ones it does concern probably can,t read anyway.

[Mick]

With regard to litter, its about time the council but a lot more litter bins in place ,if you walk down Blackburn road from church to town you will be lucky to see 4-5 bins in the hole lengh of the road.
normally i just use less's front garden as a rubbish bin like everyone els

[lindsay ormerod]

The Council should make a bigger noise about imposing on the spot fines for litter louts and those who allow their dogs to foul the pavements;if these penalties are good enough for the theiving scum in Accy they should be good enough for these ignorant louts too!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

The Council should make a bigger noise about imposing on the spot fines for litter louts and those who allow their dogs to foul the pavements;if these penalties are good enough for the theiving scum in Accy they should be good enough for these ignorant louts too!

all for that lindsey only problem i can see is their not soft targets,like motorists and old folk that couldn't afford to pay the poll tax,

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by mick

With regard to litter, its about time the council but a lot more litter bins in place ,if you walk down Blackburn road from church to town you will be lucky to see 4-5 bins in the hole lengh of the road.
normally i just use less's front garden as a rubbish bin like everyone els

Julie and I walked from teh old Spar at teh end of Southwood all the way past Hollands before we found a bin to put our empty drinks bottles in. We probably past a hundred or so that had been dumped and our council wonder why.

Ian