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Title: Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL For Picking Up Trash Too Early
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/garbage-man-s ... l-picking-trash-001158483.html
Published: Mar 8, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-03-08 04:49:16 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 97
Comments: 6

The Daily Caller

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.”

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spinned So what about the folks that work graveyard and sleep during the day? How are they supposed to sleep when trash is picked up between 7 am and 7 pm? What about lawn mowers, leaf blowers and barking dogs in the daytime? If you didn't have graveyard workers you wouldn't have police, fire, hospitals and groceries stocked on the store shelves 24/7. Do you hear the graveyard workers complaining? For those that want to sleep at night, go out and buy yourself some earplugs like graveyard shift workers have to do or leave the city life and move out into the country. Some people want to have it all. It doesn't work like that in the big city. 200-12

Sheila Dickson To all you folks complaining about the unfair treatment from employers, your recourse is not suing as an individual, but unionizing as a group. There is power in numbers; that's how we became the middle class in this country in the first place. Unions are the only way to gain fair and just treatment from employers1-2

Mike Unfortunately, commenter, we live in a society that has invented the Peter Principle, or better yet, the Dilbert principle, in which nearly everyone who is in management attains to their highest level of incompetence, and usually stay there. Good workers may come and go, but the idiots usually stay. And get raises. 2

Go Colts! I had something similar happen to me, commenter. I'm a plumbing contractor and I had a builder quit me because I wouldn't install plastic supply lines to sink faucets in a new construction home. I told him they have lower burst ratings than the supplies I use and he got furious and said I was just trying to raise the cost on him. He came crawling back two years later after his new plumbers had a plastic supply line burst while the home owners were out of town. The line was on the second floor and caused almost $125k worth of damage. Maybe it's time you start your own business. Best decision I ever made

Somedunce Kid Good for him...There are more morons like him around though. This garbage truck driver comes to pick up garbage from school dumpster, right across the street from me, at roughly the same time - between 5 - 6 a.m.. I went out to warn him that I`ll call police, he just waved me off with his hand. These early birds should get their wings clipped. We all want to get our daily work routines done as quick as possible, but you can`t be doing it like that "to hell with everyone.." way. Glad to read that some of these actually get busted. 9-37

Debbie This kind of thing is so common in the Atlanta area. My son used to live there. I wouldn't for anything. He got a speeding ticket in Douglasville, was ordered to report to court. You can't just pay a fine there. You have to go to court, where you see hundreds of people every day get railroaded and stolen from. Everyone in Atlanta area speeds. If you don't they run over you. So fines are a big money maker there. He was unemployed at the time, had no money, was going to take jail time instead of pay the very high fine of $900 the court felt it deserved. No one walked out of court there for less than that, and many got much, much more. He was told either pay the fine, go on probation with all the fees, or go for a year in jail. For speeding. He didn't want to go to jail for a year, we had figured maybe a month at most. So he accepted probation, not knowing if he could even pay it. I ended up borrowing money from a friend to pay it and paid the friend back over time. They rob the poor there to feed the rich44-2

[KristieD] KristieD Everyone that lives in the area knows to stay the hell OUT of Sandy Springs. The judges are so corrupt. I had a 17 year old family member that went to jail for SIX MONTHS because of a traffic violation in this town. He showed up to court thinking he'd get a small fine and the judge threw the book at him. No one knows why. He was speeding and spent six months in a jail 5 hours away since they board their prisoners in South Georgia. A 17 year old! No school, no family for six months. He had never been in any trouble before, it was horrible for the entire family.

He just recently got out and he's not even the same person, he's in a horrible depression. 80-4

Isaac Talk about stupid!!! My garbage service was at my house almost every week at about 4:30 am. Loved it I would put out my garbage the night before, then I would wake up about 4:30 to get ready for work and when I would leave the garbage was done so I could push bins back to house in the morning, and not have them out all day. Don't they have better things to do then worry about a garbage truck out working, so STUPID. That DA and judge should be thrown in jail for stupidity. 50-4

Tatarewicz  posted on  2015-03-08   4:53:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

spinned So what about the folks that work graveyard and sleep during the day? How are they supposed to sleep when trash is picked up between 7 am and 7 pm? What about lawn mowers, leaf blowers and barking dogs in the daytime? If you didn't have graveyard workers you wouldn't have police, fire, hospitals and groceries stocked on the store shelves 24/7. Do you hear the graveyard workers complaining? For those that want to sleep at night, go out and buy yourself some earplugs like graveyard shift workers have to do or leave the city life and move out into the country.

The vast majority of people keep similar hours, those that do not do in fact adjust. I and my wife used to be, and still are at times, among them.

No offense, but you're arguing this like a political liberal.

I find nothing wrong with this. Trash collection is a public service for which there is no reason that it cannot be done without disrupting the most people possible. We've actually had Mexican landscaping crews show up in our neck of the woods at 5 to 6 a.m. and start using loud equipment, which is unreasonable, particularly when you have young children that need sleep being awakened long before they would naturally wake up.

If someone trying to sleep during the daytime hours complained about mail trucks, work trucks/crews, trash and recycling pick-up, etc. during daytime business hours, hopefully they'd get laughed out of the room.

Katniss  posted on  2015-03-08   11:16:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

This strory reminds me of my little brother. When he got his CDL, the first job he got was driving a garbage truck. They'd start their routes at 5 am and he'd go into apartment complexes and empty those big, steel dumpsters and he'd rattle and beat the hell out of them knowing damn well he was waking people up. I guess he figured if he wasn't getting any sleep, nobody was.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2015-03-08   13:38:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Trash collection is a public service for which there is no reason that it cannot be done without disrupting the most people possible

Their City Council got that message from voters and passed the 7-to-7 bylaw. What most commentators objected to was the stiff fine. Looks like the judge wants to keep his tax-supported budget to a minimum by generating his own revenues, which should go over well with law-abiding voters, which most people are.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2015-03-09   1:31:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

This strory reminds me of my little brother. When he got his CDL, the first job he got was driving a garbage truck. They'd start their routes at 5 am and he'd go into apartment complexes and empty those big, steel dumpsters and he'd rattle and beat the hell out of them knowing damn well he was waking people up. I guess he figured if he wasn't getting any sleep, nobody was.

I suppose, but isn't that the same kind of modern mentality that cops possess? i.e. somewhat sociopathic to say the least? Think about it, what if everyone in the world had that kind of attitude, where would we be? Then again, look out the window, welcome.

I've never been like that, I'd have gone out of my way to try to be unnoticed.

I guess that work-ethic and this stuff go hand-in-hand. Then again, work-ethic in our country has to be at all-time lows. Everyone wants wealth but so very few seem to want to truly work hard for it. People today throw around the term "hard work" but most are clueless as to what "hard work" really is.

Katniss  posted on  2015-03-09   10:52:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Their City Council got that message from voters and passed the 7-to-7 bylaw. What most commentators objected to was the stiff fine. Looks like the judge wants to keep his tax-supported budget to a minimum by generating his own revenues, which should go over well with law-abiding voters, which most people are.

Well, on the same note, what caught me was the repeated offenses.

Who was the reasonable one(s)?

If that was in fact the first offense, fully agree. Hard to tell.

As well, I'm not sticking up for politicians, most of which are little more than egotistical moral pigs with IQs on the low-end of the scale that thrive on sucking the blood from the truly productive, just like most government workers that can't do anything else in life and these days are grossly overpaid in the govnerment's "we're a business too" farce. Government workers, as well as government contractors, are at least partially welfare recipients that suck off much more than traditional welfare recipients do.

Katniss  posted on  2015-03-09   10:53:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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