Big trash brother is watching!
Calling all business people who take trailer loads of rubbish to the dump on their days off — be warned, the trash police are watching you! Bulletin editor Robert Milne took a load of pri vate but boring rubbish to the Ohakune dump. Soon after, he got a bill for $5 for dumping "trade refuse". Upon inquiry he found he was the subject of an "incident report" and that, rather than dumping only boring rubbish, he had also dumped a pile of old, but very interesting, Bulletinsl To paraphrase the songwriter, Arlo Guthrie, he was heard to say "I cannot tell a lie, your honour, it was I who placed those copies of the Bulletin under that pile or garbage".
However, the lunch money was not lost as his explanation was accepted that he was not dumping old newspapers commercially, but privately after he had been using some for weed control in the garden at home but had some left over. "Phew — that was close — but be warned!"
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 680, 1 April 1997, Page 12
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172Big trash brother is watching! Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 680, 1 April 1997, Page 12
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