Your Recycling Bins Are Showing

M&R of La Chron has put out another great piece on the gripe-vine: those $100 fines for leaving garbage bins out past 6 p.m. on garbage days. Yes, DPW is actually going around and issuing these tickets -- we barely missed getting one four months ago when we received a "warning" but not a fine.

Last month, 189 people were fined, which comes out to (according to our mad super blogger math skillz known as a calculator) $18,900 bucakroos. One complaint is that some residents don't have sufficient space for the bins and can only pull them off the street: which, according to DPW, is not enough to escape the fine.

To add more insult to injury, an OCD citizen was "helping out" by patrolling the neighborhoods taking pictures of offending cans. Awesome.

Photo by Näystin.