Now council snoopers can fine you £110 if you leave empty wheelie bin out longer than 12 hours

By Steve Doughty

Action: Residents in Sunderland are being threatened with fines if they leave their wheelie bins out

Families have been told they must take their wheelie bins off the streets within hours of the binmen visiting – or they will pay a £110 fine.

The warning is the latest draconian punishment in a long list of fines already handed out to households for breaking bin rules.

Until now bin police have targeted families mainly for putting their bins out too soon before dustcarts arrive, for overfilling their bins so that the lids cannot be shut, or for leaving out extra bags of rubbish alongside them.

But Durham County Council has declared that households now have only 12 hours to take their bins back off the street after they have been emptied. Failure to do so will be met with a £110 fine.

The council says it has imposed the measure because thieves steal wheelie bins left on the street, and vandals start fires in them.

Its decree was distributed by leaflet to households in the Dawdon area as part of what a council spokesman described as a ‘pilot’ scheme.

The measure was met with fury from local residents, ministers and campaigners opposing restrictive rubbish rules.

Resident Robert Blair said: ‘We have got people working 12 hours a day and then they go shopping and they might go for some entertainment and it’s over 12 hours before they get back home.

Local Government Minister Bob Neill said: ‘This is the legacy of Labour’s bin bureaucrats.’

It is totally disgraceful and disproportionate that clipboard-wielding officials are hammering hardworking families who leave their bins out with bigger fines than shoplifters. ‘We will be setting out plans shortly to rein in town hall bin snoopers and end this crazy practice.’

Doretta Cocks, of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections, said: ‘Wheelie bin fires are entirely the fault of the council. The council has the right to say what kind of containers people put their rubbish out in – if they end up having to impose these fines, it is their system that is failing.’

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Bill Bard says:

More Big Brother Bin men  Enforced by the typical “little Hitlers” who thrive on being Bastards.

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Nuclear Expert: "Fukushima Has 24 Hours To Avoid A Core Meltdown Scenario"

Asked how long Japanese scientists have to correct the problem to avoid a core meltdown, Hibbs tells Newsmax that it depends on system design, adding, “it could be a day, plus or minus 10 hours.”

“After a while, with the heat building up in there, and lack of coolant, you’re going to see damage in your fuel, the cladding, the metal container around the nuclear material, begins to buckle or balloon or break, and after a little while you’ll get a situation where the fuel falls apart, melts, and falls into the core, and then you’ve got a classical core melt accident like you had in Three Mile Island that you had in the United States in '79.”

Hibbs spoke with Japanese government officials who told him the force of the tsunami was so severe that the water may have flooded the reactors,  power generators, and cooling mechanisms, disabling the equipment. "Which means they have to resort to basically a military-type exercise, to rush in to the devastated site equipment that they can quickly hook up to the reactor to get power in there and start this emergency equipment, to get cooling water into that core and prevent that fuel from overheating.

“And if they can’t do that,” he told Newsmax, “then you’re going to have this meltdown.”

They have 24 hours or so to avoid a core meltdown, he says. But if one occurs, two scenarios could follow: The good outcome would mirror what happened at Three Mile Island, while the bad one could involve what he called a “Chernobyl scenario, where the damage to the reactor was such that the integrity of the structures were damaged.

“There was an explosion and other things happened in there, that opened up the reactor so the inventory of radioactive material . . . went into the atmosphere and generated this deadly plume that we know happened in Chernobyl.

“So that is the ultimate worst-case scenario. Nobody is saying that’s going to happen. Nobody is even saying we’re going to have a core meltdown. But we have a window of time now. We don’t know how much is left — but the Japanese authorities and the government and all the agencies that they can muster are working overtime to get cooling systems on that site powered and working.”

The April 1986 Chernobyl disaster cost an estimated 4,000 lives. More than 330,000 Russians had to be relocated because of contamination.

But Hibbs says, “A lot of worst-case things would have to happen for us to get that far.”

Hibbs said the Japanese right now are fighting the clock to contain the heating.

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53 slain in 72 hours in Juárez

In one of the deadliest three days that officials can remember, more than 50 people were killed in Juárez.

Among the 53 victims between Thursday and Saturday were a Juárez police officer, a municipal patrolman and a state investigator.

According to Chihuahua state officials it was the most violent three-day period seen this year. State police reported that on average eight people are killed in Juárez every day.

More than 150 people have been killed in Juárez this month, according to the state police.

Since a war broke out between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels in 2008, more than 7,600 people have been killed in Juárez. Last year, 3,112 people were murdered in Juárez.

The violence began to pick up Thursday with 14 slayings, including a municipal police officer and an investigator with the state police.

A shootout between police and hit men Thursday morning left a police officer and two alleged hit men dead. Two other police officers and two suspects were wounded during the attack that occurred at the Arroyo Sur and Moro Macho streets in the Las Lilas subdivision.

Chihuahua police identified the officer as Ricardo Torillo Sandoval, who had worked for the Juárez police department since 1998.

Later that day, state police investigator Jesús Manuel Cruz Landin, 28, was shot and killed on his way home in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood.

Police arrested Jesús Agatón Juárez, 18, in connection with the homicide. Police said Agatón Juárez was in possession of the investigator’s handgun at the time of his arrest Thursday night.

Friday was the bloodiest day, with 20 homicides, including a violent attack where a couple was shot to death with AK-47 rifles at a home in the Papalote neighborhood.

On Saturday, Benjamín Núñez Núñez, a municipal patrolman, was shot and killed by a driver at a traffic stop on Oscar Flores Boulevard and Sierra Madre Sur street. Four men were killed at a party in the La Cuesta neighborhood Saturday. Chihuahua police officials said a total of 19 people were killed in Juárez that day.

Despite the continuous violence and attacks against officers, Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía announced Saturday that the police will keep fighting crime.

Murguía said the city recently received 100 million pesos (about $8.3 million) as part of the social program “Todos Somos Juárez” to create a single police unit where all levels of government will be involved.

As of Sunday afternoon, state police had reported three more homicides, including the death of a man who was wounded in one of the multiple attacks Saturday. He died at a hospital, police said.

Also Sunday, a man was found dead about 5 a.m. in the middle a dirt road and another man was killed and three people were wounded at a tire repair shop on Oscar Flores Boulevard.

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