went to the Wayne county dump today w/household trash in black plastic garbage bags as well as several cardboard boxes filled with other trash from my garage. of course i was OC'g!!
got to the dumping area and this gentleman who is an attendant immediately points to the cover of a small fan and states that has to go in metal scrap container about 25 feet away, he points to the filled cardboard boxes and says they have to go into the cardboard container about 15 feet away, and points to a very small box (8x8x10) completely filled with shards of broken mirrors i removed from the wall of a house i am remodeling and says i must dump the contents and place the box in the cardboard container. i told him as i was parked by household goods i wasn't handling the box any more than necessary as i had already cut myself several times with the project and proceeded to dump the small box into the household goods container. the attendant started getting excited and told me i shouldn't have done that, then i dumped the remainder of the load of my small pickup into household goods container, including the other cardboard boxes. the attendant was besides himself and immediately grabbed his handie-talk and started jabbering away.
i pulled up to the exit to pay my dump fees, the cashier stated someone from the main building told her not to let me leave. at that point i told her where am i going to find a supervisor and she pointed to the main building and then she let me pay my five dollar fee and i drove over to the main building to discern what the devil was going on.
there i found a 'code enforcement' officer standing there, armed w/o any identification except a stocking cap which stated 'code enforcement on his head. he proceeded to lecture me about the importance of assuring the cardboard was properly separated. all the while he was resting the heel of his hand on the back of his firearm. i then interjected about the cardboard box w/mirror shards and the reason i dumped it so i would eliminate the possibility of further injury and he said oh. then we got into a hypothetical discussion about if the cardboard is in black garbage bags how is anybody going to know? Well if we tracked it to you I would ticket you!
at this point i played my ace and asked if he could please provide the appropriate ordinance about separating cardboard from household good waste and he left and went into his office. 15 minutes later i hollered into his office and said not to worry about it as i would find it later. he walked out handed me a notice from the Wayne county website stating in 2010 cardboard must be separated from household trash and asked if i would provide my name, address, and email, he would send the the appropriate cite. smiling sweetly, i said Nawl (southern for NO) i was fine i would look it up.
now to the crux of my post, i am unable to locate any type of resource regarding gun toting code enforcement officer so i need to ask...since when are code enforcement personnel armed? what authority do they have? are they sworn officers of the state?
secondly, any concept how to search about waste management ordinances within Wayne county...again i have drawn a blank! (never mind, found municode 62.xxx)
any information about the authority 'code enforcement' within the Tarheel state would be greatly appreciated before i approach the wayne county commissioners about this.
ipse
got to the dumping area and this gentleman who is an attendant immediately points to the cover of a small fan and states that has to go in metal scrap container about 25 feet away, he points to the filled cardboard boxes and says they have to go into the cardboard container about 15 feet away, and points to a very small box (8x8x10) completely filled with shards of broken mirrors i removed from the wall of a house i am remodeling and says i must dump the contents and place the box in the cardboard container. i told him as i was parked by household goods i wasn't handling the box any more than necessary as i had already cut myself several times with the project and proceeded to dump the small box into the household goods container. the attendant started getting excited and told me i shouldn't have done that, then i dumped the remainder of the load of my small pickup into household goods container, including the other cardboard boxes. the attendant was besides himself and immediately grabbed his handie-talk and started jabbering away.
i pulled up to the exit to pay my dump fees, the cashier stated someone from the main building told her not to let me leave. at that point i told her where am i going to find a supervisor and she pointed to the main building and then she let me pay my five dollar fee and i drove over to the main building to discern what the devil was going on.
there i found a 'code enforcement' officer standing there, armed w/o any identification except a stocking cap which stated 'code enforcement on his head. he proceeded to lecture me about the importance of assuring the cardboard was properly separated. all the while he was resting the heel of his hand on the back of his firearm. i then interjected about the cardboard box w/mirror shards and the reason i dumped it so i would eliminate the possibility of further injury and he said oh. then we got into a hypothetical discussion about if the cardboard is in black garbage bags how is anybody going to know? Well if we tracked it to you I would ticket you!
at this point i played my ace and asked if he could please provide the appropriate ordinance about separating cardboard from household good waste and he left and went into his office. 15 minutes later i hollered into his office and said not to worry about it as i would find it later. he walked out handed me a notice from the Wayne county website stating in 2010 cardboard must be separated from household trash and asked if i would provide my name, address, and email, he would send the the appropriate cite. smiling sweetly, i said Nawl (southern for NO) i was fine i would look it up.
now to the crux of my post, i am unable to locate any type of resource regarding gun toting code enforcement officer so i need to ask...since when are code enforcement personnel armed? what authority do they have? are they sworn officers of the state?
secondly, any concept how to search about waste management ordinances within Wayne county...again i have drawn a blank! (never mind, found municode 62.xxx)
any information about the authority 'code enforcement' within the Tarheel state would be greatly appreciated before i approach the wayne county commissioners about this.
ipse
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