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Old 03-08-2015, 05:40 PM
 
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Public service worker, arrested by public servant, charged by public prosecutor, goes to jail for providing public service to early.
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Old 03-08-2015, 05:41 PM
 
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Those folks up in Sandy Springs don't mess around.
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Old 03-08-2015, 05:51 PM
 
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Public service worker, arrested by public servant, charged by public prosecutor, goes to jail for providing public service to early.
At the citizens' request. Bless.
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Old 03-08-2015, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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And this my city-data friends, is why Unions and collective bargaining are totally necessary.

Only in an ignorant backwoods hillbilly state that nonsense like this is possible. This is simply human rights abuse. Did the guy even have a choice in going out to work early?

I am waiting on pins and needles for the day that Georgia's voting population becomes blue enough to kick these idiots out of power.

These "conservatives" and the laws they create are very dehumanizing and totally suck.

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A Sandy Springs sanitation worker said he was taken to jail for picking up trash too early in the morning, a violation of the Georgia city’s ordinance.

Kevin McGill will spend the next 14 weekends in jail because he picked up trash minutes after 5 a.m. one morning—an offense worthy of automatic jail time, according to the city solicitor.

Chief prosecutor Bill Riley said picking up waste too early in the morning has been a recurring problem no matter what approach is taken to limit the issue. He asked the judge to sentence McGill to 30 days in jail.

Riley told WSB-TV he’s exhausted all other options.

“Fines don’t seem to work,” Riley said. “The only thing that seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.”

Riley says 911 lights up when trash haulers come before 7 a.m.

McGill, who didn’t have an attorney with him when he was sentenced, is serving his time on the weekend. His new attorney wonders why he’s being punished.

“Give him a warning,” attorney Kimberly Bandoh said. “I mean he’s the employee. He’s not the employer. Sentencing him to jail is doing what?”


McGill opted to serve his time on the weekends, spreading the sentence out over more than three months. McGill said he just wants to get back with his wife, two sons and four dogs.




Garbage man sent to jail for picking up trash too early | Atlanta
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Old 03-08-2015, 07:57 PM
 
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I haven't once had a reason to go to Sandy Springs since moving to Atlanta, but I'll be sure to go out of my way to avoid it in the future if they don't apologize to this man and reimburse him for the extreme trouble that they have put him through.
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Old 03-08-2015, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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I agree with the comment above: This draconian sentence amounts to a human rights violation. It needs to be overturned quickly.

The police department should probably turn their attention to the idiots who "swamp 911 with calls when trash pickup occurs too early in the morning" (quoted from a Yahoo News article). BTW, there are 7,200 + comments and counting on that article: Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL For Picking Up Trash Too Early
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Old 03-08-2015, 09:27 PM
 
Location: East Side of ATL
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I wish, we could get the back-story from his employer as well. I hope, he is looking for a new job as well seeing as they though, they couldn't spare the money to send an attorney with him defend him. What a bunch of bull.
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Old 03-09-2015, 02:00 AM
 
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I agree that the burden should fall on the employer if they're ordering their drivers to start their routes before it's legal but what is really disturbing about this story trending is how many people are outraged that someone is being punished for breaking the law - a law that's routinely flouted by waste haulers in any city where the most severe punishment is an $80 fine.

Most cities have noise ordinances. Mine does. And if you've ever been awoken by this BS at 4am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84E9i9_ELBs you'd understand why. Thinking you have the right to make as much noise as you want at any hour of the night is some adolescent type of petty tyranny. It's anti-civic and a sad reminder of what this country has become.
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Old 03-09-2015, 05:38 AM
 
Location: East Point
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And this my city-data friends, is why Unions and collective bargaining are totally necessary.

Only in an ignorant backwoods hillbilly state that nonsense like this is possible. This is simply human rights abuse. Did the guy even have a choice in going out to work early?

I am waiting on pins and needles for the day that Georgia's voting population becomes blue enough to kick these idiots out of power.

These "conservatives" and the laws they create are very dehumanizing and totally suck.
agreed
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Old 03-09-2015, 06:27 AM
 
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I agree that the burden should fall on the employer if they're ordering their drivers to start their routes before it's legal but what is really disturbing about this story trending is how many people are outraged that someone is being punished for breaking the law - a law that's routinely flouted by waste haulers in any city where the most severe punishment is an $80 fine.

Most cities have noise ordinances. Mine does. And if you've ever been awoken by this BS at 4am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84E9i9_ELBs you'd understand why. Thinking you have the right to make as much noise as you want at any hour of the night is some adolescent type of petty tyranny. It's anti-civic and a sad reminder of what this country has become.

That was less than a minute of noise. And it really wasn't even that bad. What do you do when a police siren or a firetruck or a train goes by? If you want no standard city noises, you need to move to the Country and haul your own trash to the dump. It's not like it's 30 minutes of jackhammering at 5am. Or chainsaws.
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