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kpete

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Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:21 PM Mar 2015

Garbage man jailed for 30 days because he came to work too EARLY & annoyed wealthy Atlanta residents [View all]

Kevin McGill, 48, violated ordinance banning trash collection before 7am
He will spend this weekend and the next 13 in jail after receiving 30 days
McGill had no lawyer when he went to Sandy Springs, Georgia, courthouse
'Company representative accompanied him' and expected up to $1000 fine
Father of two and new attorney have filed motion to withdraw guilty plea
Residents called 9-1-1 when they heard early garbage pickup services
Suburb has privatized almost all of its services, including court system



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984054/Garbage-man-thrown-jail-30-days-getting-work-early-annoying-residents-wealthy-Atlanta-suburb-houses-professional-athletes-rap-star.html#ixzz3TuFHJLuJ
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A garbage collector outside Atlanta has been sentence to 30 days in prison for start his work too early.
Kevin McGill, 48, who works for Waste Management Inc, took a guilty plea deal after violating an ordinance in Sandy Springs, north of Atlanta, that bans collections before 7am.

He turned 48 on Friday, but reported to a local jail at 6pm after being allowed to serve his time on the weekends so he can still work collecting wealthy residents' trash so he can support his wife and two children.

The bin collector didn't have a lawyer when he was sentenced and has filed a motion to withdraw his plea, McGill's new attorney Kimberly Bandoh told Daily Mail Online.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984054/Garbage-man-thrown-jail-30-days-getting-work-early-annoying-residents-wealthy-Atlanta-suburb-houses-professional-athletes-rap-star.html#ixzz3TuF7cX6k
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Nobody should pick up the garbage sharp_stick Mar 2015 #1
How does a "contracted out" court system work? How common is this? salin Mar 2015 #2
in the neighborhood 'laws' the fine is quite high, he probably couldn't afford it. Sunlei Mar 2015 #5
"Residents called 9-1-1 when they heard early garbage pickup services" BeeBee Mar 2015 #3
that blew me away fizzgig Mar 2015 #15
This is post 9-11/Racial society geomon666 Mar 2015 #17
Face it, making up shit to put black people in jail is the one thing this nation still does well. jobycom Mar 2015 #4
Imprisoning this man is just wrong. Sandy Springs is just another predominantly white, Republican Hoyt Mar 2015 #6
They saw no other way to handle this other than to throw him in jail. geomon666 Mar 2015 #11
+10000000 -- "oh those poor athletes and executives." How about the guy getting out in the cold and Hoyt Mar 2015 #13
Well think of it from their point of you view. geomon666 Mar 2015 #16
I just spit all over the screen. Hoyt Mar 2015 #19
Had I been in his place, Trillo Mar 2015 #7
What a surprise edhopper Mar 2015 #8
This is a fucking travesty. geomon666 Mar 2015 #9
What a friggin' joke! City Lights Mar 2015 #10
This has already been posted numerous times and the story is NOT as simple as the headline appears Wella Mar 2015 #12
Fine, let the racist Republican outsourced "court" go after the company, not a hardworking man. Hoyt Mar 2015 #18
This is a huge WTF SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2015 #14
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