Nobody wants to tell a grieving mother to be quiet and stop coming up with daft ideas so I guess I’ll do it.
Locks on bins is a stupid idea that won’t even stop whoever the people are who want to sleep in bins from getting in.
Imagine a locked bin. Anyone sent to throw rubbish into it needs the key, needs to put down the rubbish while they fumble with a padlock and key, dump the rubbish, remember to lock it again and put the key back so someone else can use it. Then emptying time comes around and the driver needs a key for every bin he’s collecting from. It wouldn’t even work for a day.
A bin is perhaps the single most stupid place to sleep when you’re drunk to the point of blacking out. Maybe work on educating people about the dangers of that, since they’ll probably just find someone else just as stupid to pass out like under a bus or a bin lorry.
Ultimately we cannot safeguard against every possible accidental or unfortunate death and it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect it. The mother is plainly in pain due to the loss of their son and I wouldn’t expect them to not be, but this is not a situation that needs guarding against.
A man made a drunken ill-fated decision that resulted in his death. It’s very sad.
Perhaps campaign against excessive alcohol consumption the thing that actually made him climb into said bin?
For me it’s more shocking that his body has never been found
The number of grown men killed in commercial wheelie bins is so small that this is a ridiculous measure. Especially when he wasn’t chucked in against his will, he actively chose to climb in because he had an alcohol problem. It’s not normal behaviour and she needs to come to terms with this.
It could be argued that lockable wheelie bins may have the opposite effect – more litter problems and animals, people (incl. saints and children) and anything else being locked in and being killed, lost or destroyed.
Grief is horrible, but someone needs to seriously ask her if she’s being serious, and if she is then actually provide her with proper counseling to help her with this grief, without the ridiculously long waiting times.
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Nobody wants to tell a grieving mother to be quiet and stop coming up with daft ideas so I guess I’ll do it.
Locks on bins is a stupid idea that won’t even stop whoever the people are who want to sleep in bins from getting in.
Imagine a locked bin. Anyone sent to throw rubbish into it needs the key, needs to put down the rubbish while they fumble with a padlock and key, dump the rubbish, remember to lock it again and put the key back so someone else can use it. Then emptying time comes around and the driver needs a key for every bin he’s collecting from. It wouldn’t even work for a day.
A bin is perhaps the single most stupid place to sleep when you’re drunk to the point of blacking out. Maybe work on educating people about the dangers of that, since they’ll probably just find someone else just as stupid to pass out like under a bus or a bin lorry.
Ultimately we cannot safeguard against every possible accidental or unfortunate death and it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect it. The mother is plainly in pain due to the loss of their son and I wouldn’t expect them to not be, but this is not a situation that needs guarding against.
A man made a drunken ill-fated decision that resulted in his death. It’s very sad.
Perhaps campaign against excessive alcohol consumption the thing that actually made him climb into said bin?
For me it’s more shocking that his body has never been found
The number of grown men killed in commercial wheelie bins is so small that this is a ridiculous measure. Especially when he wasn’t chucked in against his will, he actively chose to climb in because he had an alcohol problem. It’s not normal behaviour and she needs to come to terms with this.
It could be argued that lockable wheelie bins may have the opposite effect – more litter problems and animals, people (incl. saints and children) and anything else being locked in and being killed, lost or destroyed.
Grief is horrible, but someone needs to seriously ask her if she’s being serious, and if she is then actually provide her with proper counseling to help her with this grief, without the ridiculously long waiting times.