trash out early citation

[jd-science.livejournal.com]

is there any way to contest a "trash out early" violation? it was for about a month ago, so i have NO idea what the "early trash" may have been. we never take out our barrels or recycling bins until the night before, after 8 pm (we're on a monday pick-up schedule), and we always take the empties back in by monday evening. this citation was for a thursday evening. i can't imagine what it could have been for.

any advice would be great. thanks.

Comments

[matthew miller (from livejournal.com)]

I read somewhere that you're not allowed to take the trash out before 4 p.m. the day before pickup. I can't find that now though, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place.

Anyway, certainly sounds like you're well within that normally.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

How could they know it was your trash?


As a possibility, did a neighbor move out last month leaving a bunch of trash at the curb early?

I wound up with the same citation...

[foxalbers.livejournal.com]

After those of us downstairs blaming the upstairs folk, and after the upstairs folk blamed those of us downstairs, I caught my neighbor a few months later putting his trash/recycling on my side of the driveway.

[foxalbers.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it was just a cursory estimation that it belonged to the house the trash was parked in front of.

Regardless, you'd be surprised at what kind of identifying trash people wind up throwing away. A simple junk mail envelope is enough to track you down with.

[spatch]

"Yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie... I put that envelope under that pile of garbage."

I second the moving neighbor theory. It really sounds like no effort was made to determine who should get spanked other than a cursory check at the house number.

[bluedaisy.livejournal.com]

Cambridge has started a "no trash at all before 6pm, and no trash without rat-safe lids before 6 am" campaign. Is Somerville doing similarly?

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand. How does Cambridge know who put it there?