just spoke to a work colleague and her husband has a small lockup on an industrial estate and has his waste skip in the public car park. Over the weekend he had a call from the cops telling him theyve arrested 2 men for taking things from his skip. He said they were free to keep what they had taken and didnt want to press charges and asked them why there was all the fuss. Apparently taking from a skip has now become an offence and its cos the waste in it is the property of the chucker till the appointed skip lorry comes to collect it. The increased police vigilence is as a result of identity theft and the possibility that the stolen waste could be retipped elsewhere and this would then make the skip hirer (ie her husband) liable for this illegal tip, if the waste could be attributed to him.
Is this all correct, or were the cops on some tick-box mission? A warning for us skip hunters maybe.
Is this all correct, or were the cops on some tick-box mission? A warning for us skip hunters maybe.