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SKIP WATCH

Dave — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:22:50 +0000

I got dragged along to an Ambassador’s reception recently, as you do when you work in the waste industry. It was pretty boring, to tell you the truth, so I whipped out some of my ‘special interest’ Polaroids that I carry discretely in my top pocket and started showing them around to spice things up a bit. They soon became the focus of the whole evening and, at one point, the Ambassador was actually heard to say “Monsieur, with these tremendously overloaded skip photographs you are spoiling us!” (What? You didn’t think I’d pull out those photos did you!)
So, you see, your fantastic overloaded skip photos are not merely serving the purpose of giving us all a good chuckle each month. They are actually a vital tool in my quest for social acceptance. In fact, they may well have saved my life too, for all I know, when some skinheads tried to mug me at a railway station in south London last February. I was pinned against a fence by two of them, while the third mugger went through my pockets. Luckily, the first thing the little scally found was one of my aforementioned Polaroid collections, and they were all so busy laughing at them that I managed to slip their clutches and do a runner amid the distraction. The loss of some particularly exquisite pictures did take me a while to come to terms with, but I managed to retain all my body parts, so it was a fair trade-off in the end.

Anyway, let’s have a good look at these latest fine specimens to be added to
the collection. The skip above was sent to us by D K Rowe Skip Hire, of London. It’s another victim of pruning madness and is definitely in need of an extreme hair cut before it stands much chance of going anywhere.

Here we have an artfully overpiled collection of household fittings and rubble that was snapped by Sam at Dunmow Skips Ltd. And yes, it’s even got the kitchen sink in there!
My favourite overloaded skip fix this month, however, comes courtesy of Triple C Skips, of Accrington. It’s positively haemorrhaging lounge furniture in all directions! You can bet that the inevitable sofas teetering on the top were not dumped in there by the person who actually hired the skip too (I think that’s pretty much an unwritten rule, nowadays isn’t it?)

Right, I’m off to a speed dating evening now – where the pictures never fail to make an instant impression. Please help me to continue having a social life by sending more great overloaded skip pics to pr@theskip.net or post them to – The Skip, Baxall Business Centre, Adswood Road, Stockport, SK3 8LF.

SKIP WATCH

Dave — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:24:06 +0000

It turns out that America isn’t all just homicides and j-walking; after I’d finished laughing about Britney Spears crashing her Mercedes whilst putting on make up last month (hit me baby one more time!), I happened upon a heart-warming tale of human decency from our friends across the pond…
A solid waste transfer station inspector, working in Montgomery County, Maryland, received a call on his radio from the ‘trash bays’ in the public unloading area one morning, informing him that a member of the public had reported hearing a cat meowing in the number 13 trailer.
The inspector ordered the trailer to be pulled to the tipping floor inside the transfer station building, where it became the job of two unfortunate contractors to climb in and empty the entire trailer by hand.
After 35 minutes of sifting merrily through filth, no cat was found. With hopes of finding the kitten rapidly dwindling, the inspector received another call informing him that the cat was still meowing near trailer bay 13. The search was moved back to the trailer area, but still no moggy…
Feeling there was no more they could do, the men returned to work. But one determined animal lover refused to give up and kept on searching until he found the kitten hidden in the trailer bay. He has now given the kitten a home and named it ‘Lucky’! Aaaah, it makes you feel all warm inside… and then a bit pukey.
Speaking of fluffy felines; never mind the expression ‘not enough room to swing a cat’ – you couldn’t fit a cat in this month’s artfully overloaded skip if you passed it through a blender first (please don’t try this – trust me, it’s true).

This gem, sent in by TDB Morris Environmental Ltd, scores double points. It’s obligatory for any self-respecting overloaded skip to feature either a matress or an old sofa – but this has both!
Can anyone beat this for quality? Email your overloaded skip photos to pr@theskip.net or post them to – The Skip, Baxall Business Centre, Adswood Road, Stockport, SK3 8LF.

SKIP WATCH

Dave — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:44:59 +0000

Here’s a particularly unusual overloaded skip story we heard this month: a Birmingham skip hire company have been fined because of a freakish incident in which a monsoon type downpour filled one of their skips with so much water that it exceeded it’s maximum permitted load weight!
The 7.5-tonne lorry, belonging to Need-A-Skip Ltd of Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, was carrying two skips when the unlikely storm struck – adding several inches of water to the load during transit.
The skip truck was legally loaded when the journey began, but the sheer volume of rainfall caused the load to be 410kg overweight by the time the driver was pulled over for a routine inspection off the M5 at Quinton.
The company had little choice but to admit responsibility for the offence at Solihull Magistrates Court where, fortunately, the unusual circumstances were taken into account. Because of this, the fine was kept down to £200 plus £209 costs.
As we all know, it’s hard enough trying to keep thoughtless neighbours from illegally overloading skips with their midnight fly-tipping antics, so being slapped with a fine for what is generally described as an ‘act of God’ is quite a harsh blow!

Fortunately for us, there’s still plenty of more traditionally overloaded skips knocking about out there for our amusement. The above picture comes complete with the lovely finishing touch of a couple of paint tubs, optimistically placed in the vicinity of the skip and the bin – in the hope that somebody will deal with them…

This skip, spotted by Helen Roberts in Copley, is so overloaded with garden waste, it appears to have morphed into an existing tree, making it difficult to tell where the skip ends and the garden begins! (Or is it just one of those rare ‘skip trees’
in full bloom?)
Please keep your overloaded skip photos coming. Email them to pr@theskip.net or you can post them to – The Skip, Baxall Business Centre, Adswood Road, Stockport, SK3 8LF.