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Travellers have dumped on Old Aberdeen
This article written by Webadmin, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Old Aberdeen Community Council.
28th May 2010
Well, many other parts of Aberdeen have been visited by travellers and this week it was our turn to ‘welcome’ a large group who camped out behind Lidl for a few days until they moved on. Unfortunately they left a horrible mess behind. Ultimately this will be cleaned up by the City Council on our behalf, just as they have elsewhere.
The mess is a combination of domestic rubbish plus fly-
What puzzles me is why they will not clean up. It is as through they have a need to deliberately show their contempt at our way of life. Yet it is this filth, perhaps more than any other action, that antagonises a community and can cause hatred for their life style.
Now they could not exist without us townies. Their major income stream must be garden and building work, and they find this more profitable by fly tipping their rubbish rather than paying to send it to land fill. I’m sure some of our established builders will also seek to minimise what they have to pay to dump, but here there is a clear connection between the pile of rubbish and the group responsible. Unfortunately, the police are not able to prosecute ‘a group’ as they need a name, so they keep on tipping and you keep on paying the Council to tidy it up.
So, if you have recently paid ‘cash in hand’ for a new drive -
These pictures just show the building rubble -
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