Householders in the Aylesbury Vale District who signed up for the Aylesbury Vale District Council's garden waste collection service were surprised last week to receive a new wheelie bin.
It's brown and it's for collecting garden waste.
OK. No surprise there. After all, that's the very least they'd expect for their £36.
(Actually, the fact that householders must pay for their garden waste to be collected comes as a monstrous surprise to me.)
Anyway, the main surprise for AVDC householders is this uneditable typo.
Radwort?
Now I'm no Botanist but, as a boy, I enjoyed collecting caterpillars on many family holidays in Anglesey. And even my 8 year old self knew where to find them. On Ragwort.
That's Ragwort, AVDC. Ragwort.
Or, if you prefer, Stinking Willy. (Another name for the plant, I hasten to add. Not for AVDC.)
Uneditable?
Yes, because AVDC saw fit to have the rules moulded into the lid. Not printed on, say, an easily-removable, self-adhesive paper. Not even printed on an information sheet.
No. Moulded in. Permanently.
So what does AVDC mean to its householders?
A Very Disappointing Cock-up.
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