Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL For Picking Up Trash Too Early
 

Well this is garbage.

A sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for working too early.

Kevin McGill had been working for only a few months for a company contracted to do sanitation work in Sandy Springs when he was cited for picking up trash just after 5 a.m. one morning, according to WSB-TV.

That violated a city ordinance which limits trash pickup to between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The statute is in place because residents have complained that early pick-up disrupts their sleep.

When McGill showed up to court to answer the citation, Sandy Springs prosecutor Bill Riley sought the maximum punishment against him ? 30 days in jail.

And in a trashy move, a judge granted Riley the request.

?Fines don?t seem to work,? Riley told WSB. ?The only thing that seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.?

Riley, who jailed another sanitation worker for the same infraction last year, said that residents swamp 911 with calls when trash pick-up occurs too early in the morning.

?The solicitor said it?s automatic jail time,? McGill told WSB. ?He didn?t want to hear nothing I had to say. I said it?s my first time.?

?I was stunned. I didn?t know what to think. I was shocked,? he added.

McGill, a family man, did not have an attorney during his sentencing. He pleaded no contest and took the punishment, agreeing to serve his 30 days spread out on the weekends. He began serving the sentence last weekend and will do so for 14 more.

?I just want this to be over with,? McGill told WSB. ?I?m away from my family, my wife, and she?s got to take care of the two little boys and I have four dogs.?

McGill has an attorney now, and she believes the sentence is too harsh.

?Give him a warning,? the lawyer, Kimberly Bandoh, told WSB. ?I mean he?s the employee. He?s not the employer. Sentencing him to jail is doing what??

But Riley appears to be unmoved, saying that McGill, and not his employer, is responsible for operating his own garbage truck.

?The company doesn?t start that truck up,? Riley told WSB. ?The company doesn?t drive that truck down the street.?


Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL For Picking Up Trash Too Early

good! That will teach him not to be so eager to do work! :2 cents::1orglaugh

yeah meanwhile his family suffers :disgust jail?? dui/dwi suspects get less

I Feel bad for him, but I do hate being woken up at the butt crack of dawn by trash collecting

yup me too.. Nothing would piss me off more than to take the trash out in the morning and find out they already came though before I woke up. (I live in a area with dogs and racoons so I can't put out trash the night before)

And my last post was sarcasm.. I don't think he should've got a month but hey it happened.

maybe sum day they will find sumthing to lock you up. :) then you will worry about extreme justice :2 cents::2 cents:

After this - at 7:01am I'd be clanging the hell outta all the garbage pails making as much racket as I could. Rev the engine awhile. Throw it in reverse and let the beeper annoy the fuck outta the neighbourhood.

Let'em call 911 again. Why aren't these dumbass complainers being fined for abuse of 911 service?

What a retarded world we live in.

right now I'd like to be locked up so I didn't have to watch this Suns game! :helpme

they wanted kj to come back :helpme he was scared :1orglaugh:(

It's not about being eager to work.. These guys are starting so early, because they have less trash to pick up being many don't put their trash out till the morning. It's a shyster move to get out of work. He's probably a contractor of some sort and sounds like it's a common tactic being others have done the same..

ya I knew they couldn't come back like they did last night.. Hey what happened to Len? Saw he left the game last night but cause it was NBAtv tonight they didn't say shit about what his injury was.

Sucks being a Suns fan living in Indiana. I pay for league pass to catch all games but it's still not as good as living in phx and going to games.

sprained ankle


Alex Len questionable for Suns with sprained ankle : Fantasy News

this has to be an onion story? cant be real.

ahahaha, good. fuck him. he should be fired too. and fined. and have his driver's license revoked.

We have a winner, folks!

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This is very possible, but if it is shouldn't that be a civil case and not a criminal case?

I would be all for fining this guy or even suspending him without pay for 30 days, but to put a guy in jail for 30 days for something like this is fucking ridiculous.

all good suggestions and how do we feel about having his dog sodomized too for this?

misuse of the 911 or emergency call system

but this is the same, if not more, amount of work, the garbage doesn't go away on its own. garbage man will just have 2x more garbage next time.

logical fallacy to carry someone's view to an extreme as if to poke a hole in the original comment. as for the imaginative punishment, i don't think butfucking the dog is something that's ever crossed my mind, so you are on your own with that.

From the quotes in the article, it seems they have tried fines in the past and these guys still do it. Seems to me they were sending a message. Also he is likely not a employee, he's likely a owner operator and those types of operations are notorious with mob ties/mob run unions.

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:1orglaugh:1orglaugh plz stop watching so much Law and Order! Mob ties?

In your own quotes.... "HIS OWN GARBAGE TRUCK" This is a common thing in some states/cities they use owner operators as contractors.. Kinda like cable installers and so forth.. They don't have a contact with the city or town they use their own trucks working or the actual contractor.. ie like a trucker..

while I won't doubt you are right about in some cases when I read the same sentence I took it another way

13 years ago before I worked in porn I worked at a large printing factory as a fork lift driver for 11 years. I was told to check out and care for "my" fork lift before each shift as I was responsible for it. That didn't mean I owned it just that during my shift I was responsible for that machine. You could be right, I just didn't see anything in the story that said he owned it. I knew a bartender in PHX and her husband worked for sanitation. He didn't own his truck but he had to wash it everyday and he always drove the same truck that was assigned to him.

Simple solution. If he was doing this on his own and not by order of the company he worked for suspend him without pay for 30 days. When he comes back, if he does it again remove him from the job, or make the fines so severe that companies do pay attention to them. If it is a company thing and they are telling the employees to do this then either fine them heavily or just take the contract from them.

To me putting someone in jail should be a last resort. Our country is becoming one where our first response to anything is just throwing them in jail.

Jesus if this is real, i dont have words

Jail for 30 days WTF? I can't believe people saying he should be fined 30 days pay. The trash man with a family to support forced to pay a months wages for doing his is job a little early for the first time? and how well do you think this guys going to do his job when he goes back to taking out the trash? You really think he's going to serve that community to the best of his ability now? Gonna be a lot of smashed cans and broken mailboxes over time I'm guessing lol

Welcome to the 1st world :winkwink:

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$10,000 bet that the guy is black. Otherwise brassmonkey would not post this story.

welcome to the society that demands every one of their whims be catered to on a plate, and where the tiniest of annoyances results in fucked up retardness like calling the old bill because it's too noisy outside, or mass bleating because a neighbour smoked a cigarette in his own back yard. 'harden the fuck up' comes to mind.

yeah, they should do this with eg speeding. fines don't work, about time they started banging people up for it for a first offence, because other people got fined for speeding before, yet people still get done a first time for that. idiot.

are people so retarded they call 911 because of a noisy garbage truck? derp. they should be the ones going to jail.

Its called Prisons for Profits. They Guarantee they will keep X number of beds full.

There's a reason noise abatement laws are on the books with fines, penalties and jail times. LAPD has a fucking noise task force for my neighrbothoid.
Harden the fuck up? Gofuckyourself.

Yes, the first world where most of us sleep in.

Noise Enforcement Team (213) 996-1250

The responsibility of the Noise Enforcement Team entails Early/Late Construction , Early/Late Deliveries, Early/Late Trash Pick-Up, and Music Emitting from Nightclubs.

5503 Violation ? Penalty.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or be imprisoned in the County Jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day such a violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such. (Ord. 95-1068, § 1)



41.40 LAMC- Construction Noise

Allowable Construction Hours:
Monday through Friday between 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturdays and National Holidays between 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sundays, no construction except for residents

113.01 LAMC- Rubbish and Garbage Collection

Allowable Hours if the Trash Bin is within 200 feet of resident:
Between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
If more than 200 feet from resident, trash bin can be picked up any time

114.03 LAMC- Vehicle loading or unloading (Deliveries)

Allowable Hours if Deliveries are conducted within 200 feet of resident:
Between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
If more than 200 feet from resident, deliveries can be conducted any time

112.01(c) LAMC- Noise Emitting from Nightclubs
Any noise level caused by such use or operation which exceeds the ambient noise level on the premises of any other occupied property, or if a condominium, apartment house, duplex, or attached business, within any adjoining unit, by more than five (5) decibels shall be a violation of the provisions of this section.

Other Noise Responsibilities

Gas Leaf Blower............Bureau of Street Services (213 847-6000)
Fixed Equipment............Department of Building and Safety (213 252-3039)

Extraordinary copy and paste, brassDindu. My compliments.


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Nice neighborhoods have noise ordinances. I wouldn't want him waking me at 5 am either.

excellent bump of a old thread with plenty of my sigs in it! :thumbsup

:2 cents:

A couple of summers ago, I just got up regularly at 6am because that is when the Republic truck did the dumpsters on my end of the apartment complex... all 8 or so within earshot of my windows.