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       Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL
   DIR By: PWTRPWR
       Date: March 7, 2015, 10:13 pm
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       Garbage Man Sentenced To 30 DAYS IN JAIL For Picking Up Trash
       Too Early
       The Daily Caller
       3 hours ago
       Well this is garbage.
       A sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb has been sentenced to
       30 days in jail for working too early.
       Kevin McGill had been working for only a few months for a
       company contracted to do sanitation work in Sandy Springs when
       he was cited for picking up trash just after 5 a.m. one morning,
       according to WSB-TV.
       That violated a city ordinance which limits trash pickup to
       between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The statute is in place because
       residents have complained that early pick-up disrupts their
       sleep.
       When McGill showed up to court to answer the citation, Sandy
       Springs prosecutor Bill Riley sought the maximum punishment
       against him — 30 days in jail.
       And in a trashy move, a judge granted Riley the request.
       “Fines don’t seem to work,” Riley told WSB. “The only thing that
       seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.”
       Riley, who jailed another sanitation worker for the same
       infraction last year, said that residents swamp 911 with calls
       when trash pick-up occurs too early in the morning.
       “The solicitor said it’s automatic jail time,” McGill told WSB.
       “He didn’t want to hear nothing I had to say. I said it’s my
       first time.”
       “I was stunned. I didn’t know what to think. I was shocked,” he
       added.
       McGill, a family man, did not have an attorney during his
       sentencing. He pleaded no contest and took the punishment,
       agreeing to serve his 30 days spread out on the weekends. He
       began serving the sentence last weekend and will do so for 14
       more.
       “I just want this to be over with,” McGill told WSB. “I’m away
       from my family, my wife, and she’s got to take care of the two
       little boys and I have four dogs.”
       McGill has an attorney now, and she believes the sentence is too
       harsh.
       “Give him a warning,” the lawyer, Kimberly Bandoh, told WSB. “I
       mean he’s the employee. He’s not the employer. Sentencing him to
       jail is doing what?”
       But Riley appears to be unmoved, saying that McGill, and not his
       employer, is responsible for operating his own garbage truck.
       “The company doesn’t start that truck up,” Riley told WSB. “The
       company doesn’t drive that truck down the street.”
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