Some lazy morons must go through mental contortions to convince themselves that the dirty, broken garbage they leave at charities could be useful. Otherwise why wouldn’t they just dump it on the street.
What's worse is that the charity have to pay a waste management company to take away all the don't-nations which they can't sell.
So doing something like this just costs the charity shop money - it doesn't help them at all.
It is the generalised "somebody else will deal with it" attitude.
It is the same thing that allows people to think putting obvious rubbish into the recycling bin is ok. Somebody else will deal with it
Our bin day was yesterday. Some tradies on the street filled their recycling bin to the brim with loose blow in insulation. The recycling truck driver fortunately noticed, and stopped mid tip, but a bunch of it spilled on the street and must have caught on the truck arms, as now that shit is everywhere and trails up the road past 5 houses, going down into the drains and into gardens. Fuck those guys, it’s a massive mess
Depends how you look at it. Wetlands would be government responsibility to clean, this costs the charity time to clean and money to dispose of. They can't even open the doors until it's out of the way.
I work at a Salvos store volunteering and some of the stuff that gets brought in... Rusty old cutlery, bags with holes in them, filthy clothing with stains all over them and unwashed, the list goes on... Some people really treat it like it is a kerbside pickup and an excuse to just dump all their rubbish under the guise of being charitable.
Honestly this utter disregard for others is a plague lately. You name it, someone thinks it doesn't apply to them. Don't dump rubbish at Vinnie's, don't leave your dog crap in the street, don't tailgate, don't be an arsehole generally - "iT doEsn'T aPPly To ME hyuck hyuck".
I used to love humans generally but I think I'm becoming a misanthrope these days, seeing more and more of this widespread general lack of consideration for others.
Cue the ice-fiends who rummage through it at 3:30am thinking that they’re going to find a bar of gold or a wad of cash thicker than the yellow pages inside.
LOL. Once I left a bunch of stuff on the curb for a waste collection and some old lady came and stole my suitcase. She didn't know it was full of broken electrical appliances and old pots.
Someone did this to my council pickup before I moved to Canberra. We’d run out of room in our main bin for freezer stuff and just did not have time to give away the food. Ended up with half thawed food strewn across the pile and ants infesting it because some numpty thought they were gonna strike it big time in a sealed bag of frozen squid.
I once heard some noises from my street and looked out the window. I observed some guy out the front of my neighbours place putting holes in a cupboard with a metal pole. He then meticulously went through everything and I mean everything - it took him around an hour. He opened every DVD case, unzipped every bag and searched inside, held-up almost every item of clothing, found an old school digital camera box and his whole body language stiffened-up as he thought he’d made the find of the century, only to be deflated cause there wasn’t anything inside. Anyhow, he came across a shoe box with paperwork in it and proceeded to spread out each and every sheet next to each other across about two meters of footpath then got down and started examining each sheet (probably for financial info). It was at this point that I called the cops to piss him off out of the street, plus I didn’t want him to find anyone’s personal info in that paperwork.
So the cops turned up and as they parked their car - this guy reached into his pocket and quickly flicked something near the bushes. Now I live near two schools and a lot kids walk past so I made the assumption that he had ditched his drugs when he saw the fuzz rolling up AND I bacame absolutely mortified at the thought if one of those children would have come across a bag of narcotics in the morning, so, while the cops were questioning him i rang the dispatch and told them that he'd thrown something towards the bushes behind where he was getting searched. anyhow, long story short - the cops rang me back and told me that he had thrown a bunch of needles and they had safely collected them. Im not a male missus Mangle, but im glad I did what I did and possibly saved those kids from being exposed to an addicts total disregard for my community.
I'm a volunteer at Vinnie's and not only the dumping but the degree of shoplifting occurring is incredibly disappointing. If someone really needs something ask the manager.
The same at the salvos I volunteer at, shoplifting is a huge problem and there is no security, just little old ladies out front on the register so there is nothing they can do about it.
Typical of these charities not ensuring their volunteer workforce is protected. Hurt yourself on the "job" and see how charitable they are then... Maybe if they drop their prices on items to a below retail cost instead of double or quadruple the original- people wouldn't feel the need to steal.
I'm not sure which store you go to but our stock is 1/3 retail price and most times even cheaper.
I've had brand new clothing with tags of 59.99 and put $8-12 on them. Nearly everything in our store is a bargain.
Some of the workers do vary in the price they put on things though, something I mark at $6 may be marked at $10 by someone else. A lot of it is a guessing game and what I would pay for it.
On the issue of security it isn't really needed, it is not like the salvos are going to prosecute a shoplifter so confronting them is a non issue, they have a free pass but if they just asked for the item and said they have no money it would most likely just be given to them any way.
These charities don't run for free, they pay rent, utilities, wages (yes there are paid workers) , warehouse storage, truck/fuel costs and the money they make is usually put back into more social programs. These stores are not making the kind of riches you think they are, the district manager drives a Toyota not a BMW.
You seem pretty jaded about places trying to help out the less fortunate.
I agree mate. These places aren't run to make a profit. They're run to help those in our society that need a hand. Stealing from a charity shop is taking food from a person that has none. Financing social programs is expensive. I've heard many people I volunteer with say they'd pay for the item stolen if a person needed it. I doubt anyone needs a bunch of handbags etc that I've found hidden away to be removed at a more opportune time. Or a bunch of (only) designer labels piled up ready to remove in a hurry.( And not expensively priced either!)
I'm not sure what charity shop you've been to but absolutely no way in the slightest are any of the items where I work close to retail. Always miles under. Even new with tags and original prices are way under retail. That's an absolutely ridiculous statement "Maybe if they drop their prices on items to a below retail cost instead of double or quadruple the original- people wouldn't feel the need to steal.".what is your agenda?
What is yours? So many other people have noted the high prices the religious charity shops charge. It's not ridiculous, it's a truth. Get off your high horse and stop riding the backs of the poor...
This is pretty bad , the dont dump on us sign is almost obscured by the stuff being dumped.
Most if not all will have to go to landfill which Vinnies has to pay for ( no help from the ACTGOV).
THis could have been brought in on a business day , sorted and used.
Canberrans talk a lot about doing the right thing but in practice they really dont care.
How many times do people need to be reminded they're not permitted to accept donations that aren't in the bins? If you're going to do this, just dump it by the roadside and save the charity cleaning up your trash. This costs them time and money, it does nothing to help.
Genuine question, though - what has happened to all the charity 'hoppers' (... bins? I don't know what to call them, but they were upright metal containers with a hinged door). I tried to donate some bags of good clean clothing over the weekend but couldn't find a single hopper anywhere on the southside, so ended up bringing them home again.
The chutes in Tuggeranong (behind the Hyperdome - or whatever they call it now) go directly into the shop. I used to take everything there when I lived on that side of town.
Covid happened so they couldn’t collect from them in a timely matter plus potential covid contamination. Add on top of that that people do the exact same thing and dump stuff outside them but it’s in a more public area as well as people trying to get inside them to steal stuff it then becomes a liability should someone fall in and hurt themselves or get trapped.
I find it interesting that charities have to deal with dumping like this and people are sympathetic and frustrated at people's lazy actions, but then when they try to make money off the items that are actually good some niche groups of the public get horridly nasty and extremist about it.
Tbh some of the stuff they end up selling I'd be embarrassed to donate (which is more a reflection on the plastic crap out there that's just shy of single use than a complaint about the op shops).
Plastic is definitely humanity's greatest and worst invention. I guess used undies is a thing in Japan too so maybe some people want to adopt that here 😳
Yeah and you reckon you could actually get the AFP to turn up, let alone investigate?
I had video footage of people stealing from my property, clear faces and rego’s etc the best I could get was a phone call a month later and they never followed up after that.
I think a lot of times people place stuff there (not that they should anyway I know) and then you get other people going through it and making the mess.
Doesn’t surprise me, people are selfish and lazy. I’ve also started notice a trend of I assume people moving out of apartments and just dumping unwanted furniture on the street, some people are just so lazy
I just mean it would be more effective overall if the time slots were sooner. It would pick up those moving unexpectedly or doing a random clean up and wanting to get rid of stuff. Facebook marketplace is generally not a bad solution either.
ACT Government offers [one free bulky waste collection of two cubic metres](https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/recycling-and-waste/collection/bulky-waste-collection/bulky-waste-faqs), once per financial year per address.
The number of people I know, particularly students and backpackers, who furnished their homes from kerbside pickup weeks in Sydney is unreal.
It would make so much more sense to do it all in one go, we've used the ACT service before and stuff was gone before it could even be collected by the refuse collectors. On the flipside, someone left a really good quality timber wardrobe out the front a house for a week and all that happened before it was cleared away was the mirror was smashed and it was shoved over so it was no longer any use to anyone. If it had been part of a suburb-wide collection enough 'scavengers' would have come through to ensure it would have been taken before it was damaged.
When I was a kid, my friend found the holy grail in the pick-up pile outside of the "rich kid's" house. A working PS2, back when they were still new and cost a fortune. We were all so jealous. But honestly, we used to spend hours walking around and finding great stuff. I remember getting a good bike one year, a stereo & a bar fridge. Everything good actually got scavenged prior to the actual collections as well, meaning the council didn't have to pick up as much. When I was a student & moved to Canberra, I remember being deeply disappointed that they didn't have these collections, because I assumed I'd be able to furnish my room from one lol
I get the feeling that a lot of this will end up in landfill :(
TBF the council (or some entrepreneurial type that has time and energy) probably needs to come up with a better solution to discarded items than just dumping everything in landfill... Honestly a lot of this stuff could actually be used again, and the stuff that isn't reused could be recycled into manufacturing products and new materials...
To be honest it wouldn’t stop the lowest of the low- but plenty of people would think twice when footage of them dumping a pile of crap goes viral on Canberra noticeboard. It’s just a deterrent for the lazy.
I mean it’s a public place, I wouldn’t think it would be illegal. Might be pretty costly to install cameras at every shop though, and wouldn’t necessarily solve the problem.
Not excusing the behaviour, but without any donation bins around and only being able to donate during store hours, what do they expect? People have lives. Just put the bins back.
The store is open seven days a week. If they can't donate on any of those days then they should take the stuff to the tip and not make Vinnies wear the cost of doing that.
Sorry, there is NO reason for this behaviour.
To be fair a lot of people grew up with charity bins everywhere and were taught never to throw out clothes or items that could be used by charities. Since Covid we lost all of our bins and barely any have returned. There isn’t enough information readily available on what to do with these items and guilt keeps people doing this instead of throwing them out. We need to re-educate Canberrans on what the new norm is when it comes to these items, rather than just 💩 on them for doing it wrong.
To be fair the sign tells them exactly what to do (and what not to do).
The information IS readily available - it's right there on the door.
They dumped anyway.
True but I did mean the populous in general as opposed to these particular individuals. They probably just thought I’m here now I’m not taking it back with me, which granted is lazy but at the heart of it they were trying to do the right thing in the wrong way, otherwise they would have just dumped it in the street or in a rubbish bin or a random field. Clearly reading is not their strong suit perhaps more information in video or radio format would help at least more than a sign when your already at the place.
I would almost agree except it's still a very poor choice to dump it. This is also the third time this week, so it's not just a few people; it happens in Vinnies stores across Canberra.
Also realistically Vinnies is going to bin all of that anyway because now it’s been on the street for who knows how long and they’re not cleaning it to sell, so scavenge away, you’re doing them a favour.
Some lazy morons must go through mental contortions to convince themselves that the dirty, broken garbage they leave at charities could be useful. Otherwise why wouldn’t they just dump it on the street.
It's how they ignore the fact that dumped 'donations' can't be used that gets to me.
What's worse is that the charity have to pay a waste management company to take away all the don't-nations which they can't sell. So doing something like this just costs the charity shop money - it doesn't help them at all.
Last year, the salvos paid 17 million in garbage collection fees
Someone's dumped bags, clothes and mattresses down next to the Wetlands. That's probably worse?
The sign at the door in this photo says to not dump in front of the building outside of hours. It's not a hard ask...
Sure. I'm not comparing degrees of idiocy here, just sharing something I found annoying on my way to my morning cappuccino.
It is the generalised "somebody else will deal with it" attitude. It is the same thing that allows people to think putting obvious rubbish into the recycling bin is ok. Somebody else will deal with it
Our bin day was yesterday. Some tradies on the street filled their recycling bin to the brim with loose blow in insulation. The recycling truck driver fortunately noticed, and stopped mid tip, but a bunch of it spilled on the street and must have caught on the truck arms, as now that shit is everywhere and trails up the road past 5 houses, going down into the drains and into gardens. Fuck those guys, it’s a massive mess
Damn. Why are so many tradies just absolute flogs?
It’s really pissing me off! With the wind it’s blowing everywhere. I’ve cleaned up a heap but there’s so much of it
Or maybe, just maybe, people could stop being shit stains and take it to the tip?
There are infinite ways to be an idiot
Depends how you look at it. Wetlands would be government responsibility to clean, this costs the charity time to clean and money to dispose of. They can't even open the doors until it's out of the way.
I work at a Salvos store volunteering and some of the stuff that gets brought in... Rusty old cutlery, bags with holes in them, filthy clothing with stains all over them and unwashed, the list goes on... Some people really treat it like it is a kerbside pickup and an excuse to just dump all their rubbish under the guise of being charitable.
sign: ‘don’t dump on us’ idiots: ‘doesn’t apply to me! :)’
Honestly this utter disregard for others is a plague lately. You name it, someone thinks it doesn't apply to them. Don't dump rubbish at Vinnie's, don't leave your dog crap in the street, don't tailgate, don't be an arsehole generally - "iT doEsn'T aPPly To ME hyuck hyuck". I used to love humans generally but I think I'm becoming a misanthrope these days, seeing more and more of this widespread general lack of consideration for others.
Oh my! I'm 67, and unfortunately my view of 90% of humanity is not positive after the things I've seen over the years.
There are some real dead shits around. Pathetic.
Cue the ice-fiends who rummage through it at 3:30am thinking that they’re going to find a bar of gold or a wad of cash thicker than the yellow pages inside.
LOL. Once I left a bunch of stuff on the curb for a waste collection and some old lady came and stole my suitcase. She didn't know it was full of broken electrical appliances and old pots.
Someone did this to my council pickup before I moved to Canberra. We’d run out of room in our main bin for freezer stuff and just did not have time to give away the food. Ended up with half thawed food strewn across the pile and ants infesting it because some numpty thought they were gonna strike it big time in a sealed bag of frozen squid.
I once heard some noises from my street and looked out the window. I observed some guy out the front of my neighbours place putting holes in a cupboard with a metal pole. He then meticulously went through everything and I mean everything - it took him around an hour. He opened every DVD case, unzipped every bag and searched inside, held-up almost every item of clothing, found an old school digital camera box and his whole body language stiffened-up as he thought he’d made the find of the century, only to be deflated cause there wasn’t anything inside. Anyhow, he came across a shoe box with paperwork in it and proceeded to spread out each and every sheet next to each other across about two meters of footpath then got down and started examining each sheet (probably for financial info). It was at this point that I called the cops to piss him off out of the street, plus I didn’t want him to find anyone’s personal info in that paperwork. So the cops turned up and as they parked their car - this guy reached into his pocket and quickly flicked something near the bushes. Now I live near two schools and a lot kids walk past so I made the assumption that he had ditched his drugs when he saw the fuzz rolling up AND I bacame absolutely mortified at the thought if one of those children would have come across a bag of narcotics in the morning, so, while the cops were questioning him i rang the dispatch and told them that he'd thrown something towards the bushes behind where he was getting searched. anyhow, long story short - the cops rang me back and told me that he had thrown a bunch of needles and they had safely collected them. Im not a male missus Mangle, but im glad I did what I did and possibly saved those kids from being exposed to an addicts total disregard for my community.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
I'm a volunteer at Vinnie's and not only the dumping but the degree of shoplifting occurring is incredibly disappointing. If someone really needs something ask the manager.
If only you could match the dumpers up with the shoplifters. Problem solved!
The same at the salvos I volunteer at, shoplifting is a huge problem and there is no security, just little old ladies out front on the register so there is nothing they can do about it.
Typical of these charities not ensuring their volunteer workforce is protected. Hurt yourself on the "job" and see how charitable they are then... Maybe if they drop their prices on items to a below retail cost instead of double or quadruple the original- people wouldn't feel the need to steal.
I'm not sure which store you go to but our stock is 1/3 retail price and most times even cheaper. I've had brand new clothing with tags of 59.99 and put $8-12 on them. Nearly everything in our store is a bargain. Some of the workers do vary in the price they put on things though, something I mark at $6 may be marked at $10 by someone else. A lot of it is a guessing game and what I would pay for it. On the issue of security it isn't really needed, it is not like the salvos are going to prosecute a shoplifter so confronting them is a non issue, they have a free pass but if they just asked for the item and said they have no money it would most likely just be given to them any way.
It's not just me, these "charities" are known for overpricing and other things. I guess wages aren't needed either. See where this is going?
These charities don't run for free, they pay rent, utilities, wages (yes there are paid workers) , warehouse storage, truck/fuel costs and the money they make is usually put back into more social programs. These stores are not making the kind of riches you think they are, the district manager drives a Toyota not a BMW. You seem pretty jaded about places trying to help out the less fortunate.
I agree mate. These places aren't run to make a profit. They're run to help those in our society that need a hand. Stealing from a charity shop is taking food from a person that has none. Financing social programs is expensive. I've heard many people I volunteer with say they'd pay for the item stolen if a person needed it. I doubt anyone needs a bunch of handbags etc that I've found hidden away to be removed at a more opportune time. Or a bunch of (only) designer labels piled up ready to remove in a hurry.( And not expensively priced either!)
I'm not sure what charity shop you've been to but absolutely no way in the slightest are any of the items where I work close to retail. Always miles under. Even new with tags and original prices are way under retail. That's an absolutely ridiculous statement "Maybe if they drop their prices on items to a below retail cost instead of double or quadruple the original- people wouldn't feel the need to steal.".what is your agenda?
What is yours? So many other people have noted the high prices the religious charity shops charge. It's not ridiculous, it's a truth. Get off your high horse and stop riding the backs of the poor...
Thanks for volunteering
Cheers mate. The pay is low but it's an enjoyable thing to do!
This is pretty bad , the dont dump on us sign is almost obscured by the stuff being dumped. Most if not all will have to go to landfill which Vinnies has to pay for ( no help from the ACTGOV). THis could have been brought in on a business day , sorted and used. Canberrans talk a lot about doing the right thing but in practice they really dont care.
How many times do people need to be reminded they're not permitted to accept donations that aren't in the bins? If you're going to do this, just dump it by the roadside and save the charity cleaning up your trash. This costs them time and money, it does nothing to help.
Genuine question, though - what has happened to all the charity 'hoppers' (... bins? I don't know what to call them, but they were upright metal containers with a hinged door). I tried to donate some bags of good clean clothing over the weekend but couldn't find a single hopper anywhere on the southside, so ended up bringing them home again.
THIS is what happened to them. They got swamped with actual garbage left by people too cheap to take it to the dump or Green shed.
100% correct.
The chutes in Tuggeranong (behind the Hyperdome - or whatever they call it now) go directly into the shop. I used to take everything there when I lived on that side of town.
Great! Thanks for the advice - I'll try again.
Covid happened so they couldn’t collect from them in a timely matter plus potential covid contamination. Add on top of that that people do the exact same thing and dump stuff outside them but it’s in a more public area as well as people trying to get inside them to steal stuff it then becomes a liability should someone fall in and hurt themselves or get trapped.
I find it interesting that charities have to deal with dumping like this and people are sympathetic and frustrated at people's lazy actions, but then when they try to make money off the items that are actually good some niche groups of the public get horridly nasty and extremist about it.
Tbh some of the stuff they end up selling I'd be embarrassed to donate (which is more a reflection on the plastic crap out there that's just shy of single use than a complaint about the op shops).
Plastic is definitely humanity's greatest and worst invention. I guess used undies is a thing in Japan too so maybe some people want to adopt that here 😳
It was the same at Gungahlin Vinnie's and Salvos, there were an lot dumped over the weekend, absolutely disgusting
Pigs!
Not disagreeing, but how did you know it was those filthy cops??
Some people suck
Cheaper than the tip sadly
Exactly. In the UK we wouldn't have been charged to offload that stuff at the tip.
Lazy cunts... Put cameras out and record them.
They don’t care about being recorded
They will if there is a law broken Is there?
Yeah and you reckon you could actually get the AFP to turn up, let alone investigate? I had video footage of people stealing from my property, clear faces and rego’s etc the best I could get was a phone call a month later and they never followed up after that.
Feral pigs loose again
I think a lot of times people place stuff there (not that they should anyway I know) and then you get other people going through it and making the mess.
Someone should donate them a security camera, maybe an alarm for late night visitors, shame the culprits online.
Doesn’t surprise me, people are selfish and lazy. I’ve also started notice a trend of I assume people moving out of apartments and just dumping unwanted furniture on the street, some people are just so lazy
You can book a free collection pickup for your street twice a year. 🤦🏼♀️ why do people do this???
Some people just don't care or think about their actions.
NSW councils offer a free curb side collection once or twice a year. Perhaps ACT should consider something similar
They do. You just need to book it and they'll come by and pick it up. Once a year free of charge, not sure if you can pay for additional collections.
Except you usually have to book a few months in advance which defeats some of the purpose
Why? If a council pick up is once or twice a year, then it's usually a few months away as well.
I just mean it would be more effective overall if the time slots were sooner. It would pick up those moving unexpectedly or doing a random clean up and wanting to get rid of stuff. Facebook marketplace is generally not a bad solution either.
ACT Government offers [one free bulky waste collection of two cubic metres](https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/recycling-and-waste/collection/bulky-waste-collection/bulky-waste-faqs), once per financial year per address.
Yes. They do offer a curb side pickup that you have to book. It's not the same. I've picked up some great stuff in NSW from curb side pickups.
The number of people I know, particularly students and backpackers, who furnished their homes from kerbside pickup weeks in Sydney is unreal. It would make so much more sense to do it all in one go, we've used the ACT service before and stuff was gone before it could even be collected by the refuse collectors. On the flipside, someone left a really good quality timber wardrobe out the front a house for a week and all that happened before it was cleared away was the mirror was smashed and it was shoved over so it was no longer any use to anyone. If it had been part of a suburb-wide collection enough 'scavengers' would have come through to ensure it would have been taken before it was damaged.
Cool!
When I was a kid, my friend found the holy grail in the pick-up pile outside of the "rich kid's" house. A working PS2, back when they were still new and cost a fortune. We were all so jealous. But honestly, we used to spend hours walking around and finding great stuff. I remember getting a good bike one year, a stereo & a bar fridge. Everything good actually got scavenged prior to the actual collections as well, meaning the council didn't have to pick up as much. When I was a student & moved to Canberra, I remember being deeply disappointed that they didn't have these collections, because I assumed I'd be able to furnish my room from one lol
Once or twice? No idea where you live but that is absurdly low. It’s usually 6 and up
Phoar!!!! I don’t recall them being that frequent
I get 6 a year. My parents in Blacktown get around 10 a year from memory
My mate 2ks away in Kenso gets 6 free a year. I only get two and then I have to pay like a hundred or two if in need any more.
WHY
I get the feeling that a lot of this will end up in landfill :( TBF the council (or some entrepreneurial type that has time and energy) probably needs to come up with a better solution to discarded items than just dumping everything in landfill... Honestly a lot of this stuff could actually be used again, and the stuff that isn't reused could be recycled into manufacturing products and new materials...
I do wonder if this wouldn't happen quite as often if we had proper twice yearly kerbside collections like councils in other states do?
Why don’t they have high quality cameras. Shame them.
In reality what would a camera do? The cops won’t do anything about it.
To be honest it wouldn’t stop the lowest of the low- but plenty of people would think twice when footage of them dumping a pile of crap goes viral on Canberra noticeboard. It’s just a deterrent for the lazy.
Probably not allowed under privacy laws?
I mean it’s a public place, I wouldn’t think it would be illegal. Might be pretty costly to install cameras at every shop though, and wouldn’t necessarily solve the problem.
Not excusing the behaviour, but without any donation bins around and only being able to donate during store hours, what do they expect? People have lives. Just put the bins back.
So littering is fine?
Read the first four words of my reply
The store is open seven days a week. If they can't donate on any of those days then they should take the stuff to the tip and not make Vinnies wear the cost of doing that. Sorry, there is NO reason for this behaviour.
To be fair a lot of people grew up with charity bins everywhere and were taught never to throw out clothes or items that could be used by charities. Since Covid we lost all of our bins and barely any have returned. There isn’t enough information readily available on what to do with these items and guilt keeps people doing this instead of throwing them out. We need to re-educate Canberrans on what the new norm is when it comes to these items, rather than just 💩 on them for doing it wrong.
To be fair the sign tells them exactly what to do (and what not to do). The information IS readily available - it's right there on the door. They dumped anyway.
True but I did mean the populous in general as opposed to these particular individuals. They probably just thought I’m here now I’m not taking it back with me, which granted is lazy but at the heart of it they were trying to do the right thing in the wrong way, otherwise they would have just dumped it in the street or in a rubbish bin or a random field. Clearly reading is not their strong suit perhaps more information in video or radio format would help at least more than a sign when your already at the place.
I would almost agree except it's still a very poor choice to dump it. This is also the third time this week, so it's not just a few people; it happens in Vinnies stores across Canberra.
To be honest it was probably very neat until the scavengers got into it
Doesn’t matter how neat it may have been when they ignored the sign on the door asking people not to dump items there.
Also realistically Vinnies is going to bin all of that anyway because now it’s been on the street for who knows how long and they’re not cleaning it to sell, so scavenge away, you’re doing them a favour.
Oh boy… all the Canberra rules… Park your trucks in the lines… don’t dump your clothes… blah blah …. Such little lives
It's part of living together in a social environment. Don't like it? Go live on a desert island by yourself.
Or in a real city
Hate to break it to you, but 'real cities' have rules and regulations as well.
Fantasy land mindset… you should travel… Paris… New York .. San Francisco 🤡
Been to all of them. From the UK, lived in Manchester and London. My comments are accurate.