Bin man in wealthy suburb jailed for starting work too early

A bin man has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for collecting rubbish too early.

Kevin McGill, who works for Waste Management Inc, pleaded guilty to violating an ordinance in Sandy Springs, a famously wealthy suburb 15 miles north of Atlanta, which bans collections prior to 7am.

Mr McGill reported to a local prison at 6pm yesterday after opting to serve his time on weekends so that he is still able to work and support his wife and two children.

Chief court prosecutor Bill Reilly said that early garbage collections are nuisance to residents who want to sleep and that his office had met with Waste Management, a company with a revenue of just under $14 billion in 2014, after previously punishing its employees for violating the ordinance.

The prosecutor said that the fines, which have been handed to the company before, “don’t seem to work” and that it was the right decision to punish McGill, who had only been on the route for three months, with jail time.

The suburb, in which the average income for a family of four is $205,080 (£136,371.64), has privatised almost all of its city services, including its municipal courts, its communications, parks, economic development and call centre operations.

Its website states that “this business model fosters a proactive, responsive and efficient approach to providing city services.”

According to the New York Times, the suburbs residents include numerous professional athletes, executives for Delta Air Lines, CNN, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and rapper Akon.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bin-man-in-wealthy-suburb-jailed-for-starting-work-too-early-10093951.html

Speechless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an absolute waste of time and money in imprisoning this man??!!
I mean, how ridiculous!!

Sure, slap his wrist, tell him if he does it again etc etc
But prison???

Jeez. The world is nuts.

He is probably black. It is Atlanta, after all. They will look for any excuse to incarcerate a black man in the south.

Yep, just looked at the article.  My former post was just my immediate, instinctive impression.  Can I pick 'em, or what?

surely its the fault of Waste Management and not his? they're the ones who tell their employees what routes they do and the schedule for pickup times.
This makes no sense whatsoever.

Cass wrote:surely its the fault of Waste Management and not his? they're the ones who tell their employees what routes they do and the schedule for pickup times.
This makes no sense whatsoever.

Sure it does. Probably management is white.

Hard to believe that kind of racism still exists isn't it?

DOWN HERE, those garbo's would either take a collective militant action or blacklist that street/suburb/estate entirely...

UNTIL their bosses came to the bargaining table..

AS FOR jailing that garbo', Oz still hasn't degenerated to that absurd level. Yet..

eddie wrote:
Hard to believe that kind of racism still exists isn't it?

OFTEN it still seems like each American state behaves like an individual country in it's own right...

WITH some southern states still acting like South Africa under Apartheid..

OR Britain and Australia during the 1950s and '60s.

           

Lone Wolf wrote:

eddie wrote:
Hard to believe that kind of racism still exists isn't it?

OFTEN it still seems like each American state behaves like an individual country in it's own right...

WITH some southern states still acting like South Africa under Apartheid..

OR Britain and Australia during the 1950s and '60s.

           

Very sad that people are still treated like this

I've only just forgiven you for being so vile to me btw wolf

I was gob smacked till i got to

"According to the New York Times"

Oh!!!! America....... not surprised .......was he black?

Also, if he was starting work an hour early, he probably felt he had to in order to get through all the responsibilities the company has set out for them.

Reminds me of what they expect from journalists these days. Write at least 5-7 articles per week; shoot, edit and upload video; interview at least four sources, find supporting data, maybe do a photo shoot, tweet all the salient points as you're writing the story, then share your stories across social media platforms -- and don't go over 40 hours per week because there's no overtime.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Also, if he was starting work an hour early, he probably felt he had to in order to get through all the responsibilities the company has set out for them.

Reminds me of what they expect from journalists these days. Write at least 5-7 articles per week; shoot, edit and upload video; interview at least four sources, find supporting data, maybe do a photo shoot, tweet all the salient points as you're writing the story, then share your stories across social media platforms -- and don't go over 40 hours per week because there's no overtime.

Bloody hell!
No wonder you often look like this

The poor wee souls had there sleep patterns disturbed - what a shame for them. The plebs that empty their rubbish bins and take it away need to know their place.

Stuff them...