Binmen take revenge on motorist who blocked their path

When brassed-off binmen found their route blocked by a parked car, they decided to take action against the offender. They dragged dozens of wheelie bins from surrounding streets to give the motorist a taste of his or her own medicine, but their cheeky prank was caught on camera.

The undated footage shows binmen putting more than a dozen empty bins around the car, which is obstructing their passage down a back street.



The street has been identified as Stephenson Street, Horwich. The user who has posted the video has included a description which says the binmen had made the bizarre protest because the car was blocking an alleyway they regularly use as a shortcut.

Town hall chiefs have studied the footage and believe it dates from at least 2006. A council spokesman said: “Despite the fact this took place at least four years ago, we take any incident of this sort of behaviour very seriously, and, had the staff still been in our employment, we would have launched a formal investigation.”