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Kevin McGill, 48, violated ordinance banning trash collection before 7amHe will spend this weekend and the next 13 in jail after receiving 30 days
McGill had no lawyer when he went to Sandy Springs, Georgia, courthouse
'Company representative accompanied him' and expected up to $1000 fine
Father of two and new attorney have filed motion to withdraw guilty plea
Residents called 9-1-1 when they heard early garbage pickup services
Suburb has privatized almost all of its services, including court system
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984054/Garbage-man-thrown-jail-30-days-getting-work-early-annoying-residents-wealthy-Atlanta-suburb-houses-professional-athletes-rap-star.html#ixzz3TuFHJLuJ
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A garbage collector outside Atlanta has been sentence to 30 days in prison for start his work too early.
Kevin McGill, 48, who works for Waste Management Inc, took a guilty plea deal after violating an ordinance in Sandy Springs, north of Atlanta, that bans collections before 7am.
He turned 48 on Friday, but reported to a local jail at 6pm after being allowed to serve his time on the weekends so he can still work collecting wealthy residents' trash so he can support his wife and two children.
The bin collector didn't have a lawyer when he was sentenced and has filed a motion to withdraw his plea, McGill's new attorney Kimberly Bandoh told Daily Mail Online.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984054/Garbage-man-thrown-jail-30-days-getting-work-early-annoying-residents-wealthy-Atlanta-suburb-houses-professional-athletes-rap-star.html#ixzz3TuF7cX6k
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)from these privileged asshole until next winter. See what they think of it when the heat of summer comes around.
Fucking douchebags.
salin
(48,955 posts)What a crazy story. Jail time rather than a fine? Oh... thou shall not inconvenience rich people punishable by jail time.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BeeBee
(1,074 posts)Really 9-1-1? Wow.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)gross misuse of the emergency line.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)It could be anybody picking up that garbage. Would you take the chance that some fucking terrorist is out there collecting your trash? Not this American!
jobycom
(49,038 posts)Not that I don't have sympathy for neighbors being woken up early by trash collection. I live in a predominately Latino part of town, and there's a private company that empties a dumpster across the street from me at 3 AM twice a week.
But jail? Wow.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)area that has recently incorporated to segregate itself from the City of Atlanta, because . . . . . . .well they are white, Republican racists.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Mr Riley has stood by the request for jail and says that 'fines don't seem to work' and 'The only thing that seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.'
The solicitor said that residents of Sandy Springs, which include professional athletes and executives for Delta Air Lines, begin calling 9-1-1 when they hear early garbage men, according to WSPA.
He said it was the right decision to punish McGill, who had only been on the route for three months, rather than his company, which the city has contracted to pick up its residents' trash.
Oh those poor athletes and executives.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)picking up their damn garbage? They don't care.
Aholes.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)You know the executive probably spent all night agonizing over how to squeeze the last dollar out of the frequent flyer. The athlete has to worry about random PED testing and hoping his drug dealer doesn't get busted. These guys just want a full nights rest and who is this fucking commoner coming around so early in the morning to pick up garbage. I mean it's not like he's doing them any favors or anything.
And how often is the garbage even picked up, twice a week? Maybe once a week? Are they really so put off for being woken up early for two fucking nights a week to throw someone in jail?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)there's no way in hell I'd ever pick up that neighborhood's garbage ever again. No wage would be high enough.
I'd reckon he feels NOT FREE to make such a decision, he probably figures that a few nights in jail is better than living on the street homeless and losing his kids.
edhopper
(33,658 posts)he's black and the neighborhood is white.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)A man was thrown in jail for going to work early, for fuck's sake. I'm with everyone else on here that say I would refuse to pick up this town's garbage.
And we have to hear this from a UK paper? No national media? How about regional? What a farce.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)OMFG!
What happened to giving a warning? Sheesh!
Wella
(1,827 posts)I'll repost:
The man works for a company, Waste Management Inc, which accompanied him to the courthouse:
...Ms Prince added that Waste Management, which operates throughout the US and reported $14billion in revenue in 2014, would coordinate with its employee about his work schedule and jail time.
Waste Management is responsible for the employee's behavior and the company had ALREADY racked up a lot of fines with this city:
Sharon Kraun, a spokesman for Sandy Springs, told Daily Mail Online that McGill's citation stemmed from an incident where his truck had been photographed by a resident.
The city had seen a previous case where a garbage man was given jail time several years ago and that while no similar cases had happened since, the collectors had 'fair warning', Ms Kraun said.
She said that Waste Management, which had amassed thousands of dollars in fines with the municipality in the last year, suspended McGill for violating its policies before he went to court.
Waste Management could not answer questions about McGill's employment history with the company as of Saturday morning and said it was 'currently still investigating all the facts in the case'.
So what is the real story?
You have an employee who either (a) ignored his employer's order to start work at 8:00am (the time the city desired garbage pick-up) or (b) was following his employer's order to start at 5:00 am (a time the city did NOT want their garbage picked up.) In the first case the employee should have been fired or moved to another job (he was not). In the second case, the company was deliberately ignoring the city's noise ordinances. In either case, the company is taking the city's money but not giving them the service they want. The city should break their contract with Waste Management, Inc and find another company.
The problem with the garbage man's punishment seems to be the result of a "privatized" court system, which assumed the garbage man was guilty and not the company. Basic logic dictates that since the company did not act either by firing the employee or by changing its instructions to the employee, it is the COMPANY that is at fault, not the employee. It's the company that should have been in court and the company that should have been punished. The court was dead wrong to punish the employee for the company's failure to act. But then, it's a privatized court (whatever that is) and there's most likely a lack of experience.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I'll bet my rear that the majority of Sandy Springs' residents were glad to see the guy go to jail, and would like to see more discriminatory justice applied.
There is no "lack of experience." The "judge" looks like the racist jerks I grew up with not far from Sandy Springs. Sandy Springs has been trying to segregate itself from the City of Atlanta since at least MARTA -- Atlanta Transit System that started bringing what the local yahoos call (euphemistically in public) "undesirables" to Sandy Springs and similar localities 40 some years ago).
If the residents of Sandy Springs cared, they have an emergency session and fire the entire "court system" and tar-and-feather anyone who had a part in this travesty of justice.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)damn