Council blunder sees Stoke bin installed seven-feet in the air
BLUNDERING council staff have been forced to remove this bin – after installing it around seven-feet in the air.
It meant only beanpoles like Stoke City striker Peter Crouch could comfortably use the bin attached to a post in Stoke.
Now Stoke-on-Trent City Council has removed it – less than 24-hours after it was installed.
Peter Price, the council's assistant director for technical services, said: "Clearly a daft mistake has been made.
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"It's been put right and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again."
Traders could not believe their eyes when the bin was attached to a bus stop sign outside West End Village, in London Road, on Wednesday afternoon.
Gary Challinor, aged 45, of Constance Avenue, Trentham, who works at camera repair centre, H Lehmann, opposite the bus stop, said: "At first when we saw how high up the bin was we thought it was a joke.
"I had to check to make sure it wasn't April Fools' Day. We thought the bin would be moved further down the post eventually, but it just stayed there.
"One of my colleagues even asked the guy installing it, 'are we going to need a basketball player to chuck our rubbish away for us?'"
Gary lodged a complaint with the council's environmental health department over the height of the bin after seeing pedestrians struggling to dispose of their rubbish.
He added: "I just can't believe they would put it up that high, the mouth of the bin is probably seven-feet in the air.
"That's out of reach for a lot of people.
"It's funny except that a couple of people have bumped their head on it standing near the bus stop. "It's a huge blunder, it can't stay like that because it is useless."
Mum Jenny Stone, aged 39, was walking to the Post Office with her son Cody, aged three, from their home in Lime Street when they saw the bin.
She said: "I couldn't believe it. I'm only 5ft 3in tall and you really have to get on your tip toes to chuck your rubbish away in this bin.
"Kids don't have a chance."
Kim Jones, aged 35, of Brocksford Street, Fenton, said: "It was a really strange sight.
"I'm 5ft 2in tall and I could barely reach the bin.
"I understand why the council might want to install a bin near a bus stop, but this seems a bit daft to me.
"Hopefully they will move it down so people don't have to jump up to put their litter in."
Comments
by Robnoxious
Sunday, November 18 2012, 12:35PM
“Here are some sandwiches Joy. You can come out know and stop being misty eyed. I think people know you are in there. You have Bin there and lost, at least you came 2nd, that's good. You don't talk all rubbish, so don't take it literally. If you don't come out soon we will have to phone the police.You could always be a circus act, how did you manage fit in there,are you double jointed. Someone said you were joined at the hip with pervez, is he with you. You could both join the circus. oh i forgot you have got your own circus, monkey say's, monkey does. In that case, STOP WHERE YOU ARE. Would not want to be wasting the police time, AND OURS .”
by Robnoxious
Saturday, November 17 2012, 5:28PM
“There's more to this storey than meets the eye,if you can see where i am coming from. Will we get the real low down,and someone shine a light on these proceedings.On the plus side,it was the right way up. 1 out of 2 is an improvement. You would not want some of these Labour councillors putting them up. They are under the spotlight as it is.”
by scfcscfc08
Saturday, November 17 2012, 3:58PM
“A LITTER TITTER.”
by warren-lloyd
Saturday, November 17 2012, 1:22PM
“The Daily Express, that Tory joke book, what's it saying , 7 foot bin predicts coldest winter in 50 years.”
by FrankK
Saturday, November 17 2012, 1:16PM
“This has given me a right laugh, however, maybe the council worker who installed it needs to take a good look at himself & perhaps consider a self-confidence building course. Seriously.
No-one with a brain wouldn't realize the error immediately, but the poor guy who installed it presumably has very low self-esteem not to question his council boss about this ridiculous installation in the first place.”
by Fair-Comment
Saturday, November 17 2012, 12:16PM
“Oh dear,it's reached the NATIONAL press! (Daily Express). Everyone hide! :-)”
by Huey_Hog
Saturday, November 17 2012, 10:34AM
“That's a lampost which has a door in it for access to the electrics. It is not designed to have anything clamped on it or else the door wont open.”
by warren-lloyd
Saturday, November 17 2012, 12:56AM
“You know what, its just a funny story, and in any other council area would be seen as a funny story, but you lot have to over react, and go on about it like its some sort of big drama. You lot are the idiots round hear.”
by KingTut
Friday, November 16 2012, 10:23PM
“Now then, lets just think about this for a moment; the higher the bin, the more difficult it is to put rubbish in it. The more difficult it is to put rubbish in it, the less it needs emptying. The less it needs emptying, the more money is saved. The more money is saved, the more can be wasted – sorry – spent on the councils new HQ in Hanley.
Hmmm, I think I'm beginning to see something more than just a 'daft mistake' being made by the council.”
by johnboy2011
Friday, November 16 2012, 9:18PM
“Is it a rubbish bin for basket ball players.”