11 May 2005

Minister for police sends out rangers to enforce the law.

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ABC Online has the amazing news that our Minister for Police has been forced to send out the park rangers to bring law and order to the charity bins of the town.

Rangers will patrol Canberra day and night as part of the ACT Government’s latest effort to stop people dumping unwanted rubbish at charity bins.

Urban Services Minister John Hargreaves will launch the campaign today and says the rangers will also be able to issue on-the-spot fines to people caught in the act.

If only there were already a force which patrolled the city with sufficient regularity to deter illegal behaviour!

Wait a minute… isn’t Mr. Hargreaves the Minister for a force like that?

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The ACT government pays for its Police service and, ergo, has it to itself to a certain degree. As for the “mostly rookie cops in training for policing PNG or the Solomons”……what piffle.

Have been here for 15 years, as have many of my cohorts. The overseas option is not mandatory and can be quite unattractive, depending on your family situation.

Read a little thing called the ACT Policing Purchase Agreement so you can be a bit clearer

No Mr Hargreaves isn’t the Minister for a force like that. I think Senator Ellison is. The ACT doesn’t have a police service. It gets whatever the Commonwealth Government deigns to allow it to have (mostly rookie cops in training for policing PNG or the Solomons).

Giving a charity a frying pan seems like charity to me. Buying a frying pan off a charity also seems like charity to me. What’s the problem?

Charity Bin….. Charging $50 for a frying pan they were given doesn’t seem like charity to me.
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Anon: She’d take it, too. And stack it in neat piles in her house, ensuring there is always a narrow pathway to get to and around the rooms in the house.

Aunt is insane.

‘I wanna be an ACT ranger…
I wanna live a life of danger…’

I wish they would get rid of the bloody charity bins. Cant stand the whinging and pious pleas every three weeks to the media about it.

Its a model which isnt working. instead of getting the gummint to force it to work, change the business model.

Problem solved. Deliver rubbish to aunt, not chariy bins.

Anon: You obviously haven’t been to my Aunt’s place…..

Call me picky, but “unwanted rubbish”? Is there another kind?

Or the distinct lack of tips.

Of course high tip fees wouldn’t have anything to do with the illegal dumping.

They’re not the park rangers. They’re the city rangers. If you’re going to have a whinge, then get it right.

All a bit too late – these bins are being phased out by the charities as they were sick of cleaning up the mess due to the govt. acting too late in reaction to the problem of illegal dumping.

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