• 3 weeks ago
An 85-year-old litter picker is outraged after being fined for littering after leaving his walking stick on a roadside - while out on a litter pick.

Furious Alan Davies was "shocked, angry and upset" to be fined by Walsall Council when he forgot his walking stick in Aldridge, West Midlands on September 6.

Alan and his friends had been on their daily litter pick along Longwood Lane and Hayhead Wood.

The grandad then says he drove off - forgetting to pick up his walking stick and a bag with his cushion inside, which he had set by the roadside.

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00:00I came over, opened the boot, put the bag there, and moved there, and I got in the car.
00:10I don't know if the car had moved or whatever.
00:14The bag wasn't there, sort of thing, but when I drove off it must have been there.
00:19Well I phoned up and the one man said,
00:22if you put your bag on the ground, you've took it away.
00:26There's no evidence of me putting it down and leaving it, is there?
00:30And when I put it there, I didn't do it on purpose, as I would have lost it.
00:34I can't understand that, you know, I just assumed.
00:37There's actually ten minutes in between the photograph of him leaving and him dropping his bag.
00:45I've got to accept that it was put there just so I could do something about it.
00:54I put it in the boot and I hadn't got the brains, the common sense, whatever, to put it in the boot.
01:00I just drove off.
01:01I actually had a meeting with one of the local councillors who told him that he couldn't do anything about it.

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