{"id":142717,"date":"2025-05-30T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142717\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:12:14","slug":"birmingham-a-bombsite-again-as-citys-busiest-rat-man-shares-garbage-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142717\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham a bombsite again as ‘city’s busiest rat man’ shares garbage nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: One particular street in Birmingham sees piles of putrid rubbish stacked up as tall as a human, with most of them gnawed through by rats which are getting ‘bigger’\"birmingham\"The bin strike in Birmingham has been going on since March 11(Image: William Timms)<\/p>\n

As the Birmingham bin strike approaches its 12th week<\/a>, garbage on the streets has built up to \u201cdiabolical\u201d levels.<\/p>\n

And with the huge amounts of waste littering the city\u2019s streets comes rats<\/a> \u2013 lots of them.<\/p>\n

William Timms, who goes by the moniker Rat Man of Birmingham, has been helping tackle the rodent issue<\/a> since the strikes began on March 11. In a video taken today (May 29) at midday and shared exclusively with the Daily Star, Timms snapped a street which had huge amounts of partially-emptied bin bags strewn on the pavement.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at this,\u201d WJ Pest Solutions boss Timms can be heard as the camera pans across what appears to be Clarence Avenue in the Handsworth District of Birmingham. \u201cAbsolutely diabolical. Look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"rubbish\"The huge rubbish piles are getting ‘diabolical’ (Image: William Timms)<\/p>\n

In the video, the walkway is completely impassable because of the amount of litter, piled up at times higher than an average adult stands. Towards the end of the avenue, the mountain of rubbish spills into the middle of the road, forcing cars to park at awkward angles to accommodate.<\/p>\n

The entire scene is, as Timms, puts it \u201ca joke. Pure laziness\u201d.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most worrying aspect of the view on Clarence Avenue, is that most of the thin-black plastic that clads the rubbish has been eaten away and gnawed into by rats.<\/p>\n

\"bins\"Birmingham’s Rat Man dubbed the scene ‘a joke’ (Image: William Timms)<\/p>\n

Instead of a sea of black, it\u2019s a sea of rotting food \u2013 a perfect environment for rats, ones which are getting \u201cbigger and bigger\u201d.<\/p>\n

Timms recently told this publication: \u201cIt’s because of the protein, the rubbish that people are throwing out there\u2019s everything in there, which is excellent for a rat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean you\u2019ve got peoples\u2019 old gym stuff, like protein, whey protein, and all that. Rats are eating that and they\u2019re just getting bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"williamWilliam Timms has been tackling the rat crisis in Birmingham(Image: Humphrey Nemar)<\/p>\n

No headway has been made this week in the ongoing discussions between Birmingham City Council and Unite, the trade union representing the striking binmen of Birmingham, reports Birmingham Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unite was braced to put a new pay proposal, expected via ACAS \u2013 the mediation body \u2013 to its members yesterday, Tuesday, May 27, for their consideration.<\/p>\n

\"bins\"The bins completely blocked the pavement (Image: William Timms)<\/p>\n

However, the anticipated offer failed to materialise, and now an update is not likely until Friday, May 30, at the soonest. The unbroken industrial action, sparked by wage and work condition disputes, commenced on March 11.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the city council announced a ‘major incident’ subsequent to the pileup of 17,000 tonnes of uncollected refuse on Birmingham’s thoroughfares. A dedicated effort is currently underway to dispose of over 12,000 tonnes of accumulated rubbish, reports Birmingham Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: One particular street in Birmingham sees piles of putrid rubbish stacked up as tall as a human,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[933,855,748,393,560,1203,4884,1232,26191,26192,1470,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-142717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-exclusives","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-money","16":"tag-rats","17":"tag-super-rats","18":"tag-twitter","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114593893363960683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}