Grr!
Actually thinking about it I have yet more grievances with Caerphilly council.

I was renting my mum's house while she had tons of work done to it, including laying new carpets. We shoved the old carpets down a little gully that ran along the house and the council were happy to collect it from there (seeing as I'm a weakling girlie and couldn't lug them up the front steps.)

I return home after the pick up to discover a shiteload of underlay left. Pedantic bastards wouldn't take it as we hadn't specified it. Like I wanted to keep the shitty old, damp, wood-louse infested underlay. X(

A second pick up was arranged, with more stuff to be collected.

This time I arrive home to a cardboard-strewn front garden and found some hob-nailed twat has put their foot through a man-hole cover. A man-hole cover which promptly fills with all manner of shite before we could get it fixed.

The council refused point blank to pay for a new manhole-cover (all of £12). They were outraged when we suggested their workers could possibly have done a shoddy job and that they didn't even see a manhole cover.

After we called and complained, they started sending pamphlets about the serious nature of attempting to defraud a council along with our claims forms. Subtle no? At the same time they send council tax demands for dates aaaages before I even lived there. Apparently it's ok for them to defraud the tax-payer y'see.

After rejecting our claim with a new story ('actually you're lucky an adult did it not a child as it was clearly unsafe and you could've been sued'. Hm. Thought you didn't see a manhole, let alone an unsafe one? Also our friend, a Health and Safety officer for a large building company said it was fine) we gave up and paid for the cover to be replaced.

Then began the Great Poo Floods of '05. The drain began to flood in heavy rain, no doubt helped along by all the rubbish that found its way in there.

Twice the sewage found its way into the kitchen and my poor mate D'archy helped to mop up the resulting fetid soup in his undies.

But fuck you council! The drains are owned by you and every time they flooded you had to send emergency workers out, costing far more than the original 12 quid! Ha!
(Medibot, Fri 27 Jul 2007, 21:15, Reply)