from these privileged asshole until next winter. See what they think of it when the heat of summer comes around.

Fucking douchebags.

What a crazy story. Jail time rather than a fine? Oh... thou shall not inconvenience rich people punishable by jail time.

Really 9-1-1? Wow.

gross misuse of the emergency line.

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!

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.

area that has recently incorporated to segregate itself from the City of Atlanta, because . . . . . . .well they are white, Republican racists.

Oh those poor athletes and executives.

picking up their damn garbage? They don't care.

Aholes.

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?

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.

he's black and the neighborhood is white.

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.

OMFG!

What happened to giving a warning? Sheesh!

I'll repost:

The man works for a company, Waste Management Inc, which accompanied him to the courthouse:

Waste Management is responsible for the employee's behavior and the company had ALREADY racked up a lot of fines with this city:





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.

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.

damn