You don't seem to be able to tell the difference between
people blowing up bins (sounds a bit like a prank) and terrorists hiding bombs in high streets in order to maximise the fear of random injury and death.
( wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 6:33, 2 replies)

I'm intrigued that you've somehow drawn that conclusion from my story.
From what I loosely understood from my friends - at some point in the past the British Government stopped putting communal, (probably) 'council paid for' rubbish bins everywhere because apparently at some time a terrorist organisation in Northern Ireland would use said bins in order to place bombs and attempt to injure the populace.

I'm not seeing any ref. to pranking there.
At all.
I'm sure the threat was very real at one time.
I was simply amazed that in 1996 in one of the greatest cities in one of the most developed of the first world countries, the government had 'allowed' it's populace to simply litter because a terrorist organisation had at some point in the past place bombs in their bins.
Maybe we're just spoilt in Oz, not having too many homegrown terrorists wanting to blow up our bins.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 6:58, closed)

I recognise
the desire to have a city clean and tidy but you lot went a bit overboard washing the streets of Queensland.
(immadme, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 8:29, closed)

You should've seen Cabramatta
in the 90's.

EDIT: Act of God dude - take it up with your insurance agent.
Oh, wait.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 8:50, closed)

They hadn't.
You did the right thing by hanging on to your rubbish, your mates were a bunch of cunts, although, the British do litter more than other Western countries. It fucks me right off.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:33, closed)

They didn't hide bombs in bins to maximise the fear of random injury and death.
You can tell by the way they always warned the authorities half an hour before the bomb went off, so the high street could be evacuated. I think bins were sometimes used just as a handy place to leave a bomb. It's difficult to be scared of bombs if you know you'll always be safely behind a police cordon when they go off.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 15:38, closed)