In May 2006, the local council launched a scheme whereby all the residents of the island of Lewis were eligible to receive free 3 composting bins. Everybody could call round at the Creed Park recycling centre, 2 miles south of Stornoway. Well, everybody did turn out that Saturday morning. The morning that the Stornoway Half Marathon was being run around the town as well. Result: a tailback on the A859 road which leads past the centre - and tailbacks are unknown here. At the centre, police tried to stop people driving in, but they just blew past, saying "we are entitled to our bins, so we'll get them!". In the end, there were not enough bins for everybody...
Oh, the bins were later spotted in use as chicken coops and sheep shelters.
Some people will do ANYTHING for something they believe they are 'entitled' to... even a chicken coop!!
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought you said Gunfight at the OK Corral or similar and rushed over here to see what I could do, being from Arizona, but this story was a lot funnier, down right hilarious in fact. People being people naturally they would find more use for these than just compost.
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