Even though the wirter of the article tries to mask it as good as possible it is obvious that this is not a one time thing but happened before, and i wouldn't want to be woken up that early again and again.

Yeah exactly. Sounds like someone has some pent up jealousy/rage towards the wealthy. Whether it was a poor neighbourhood or a wealthy neighbourhood makes no difference on what happened. 

Seriously? You want an entire neighbourhood to suffer because of this?

1) Obviously it was just one busy body that called this in. Not like every single person was ringing up 911 reportin a garbage truck at 5am. So why punish a whole neighbourhood for one sorry individual.

2) The rule is there for a reason. Garbage trucks are loud. And most people are trying to sleep, and have work in the morning. 5am is a good 2 hours before most people are probably up for work. How about they follow the rules.

3) Take your anger out on the judge/prosecutor. Not the victims (I struggle calling the residents victims, but that's technically what they are). 30 days for this is ridiculous, at most it should be a citation for a noise violation or something. Probably a $150 or $200 fine then you move on. 

and i suppose you don't see how all 3 of your points are entirely relavant to the arrest and jailing of this garbage man as punishment for the policies of his employer.    ...so yeah, fuck 'em.

and before you turn this into a class warefare deflection,..  i checked their real-estate and most homes are under a million so i'm richer than most of the residents of that neighboorhood.

Yeah but you also said you hope garbage men refuse service to the neighbourhood at hand, and that they deserve to live in a dump. 

And where does it say anything about anyone being sued? Did I miss that part of the article, or are you confusing sue with prosecute? 

I had no intention of making this a class warfare thing. The writer of the article did that himself, by making a point of it being a wealthy neighbourhood. 

And yeah of course I'm against the garbageman going to jail, at most I think a minor citation would have done just fine and he'd learn his lesson. I don't know the whole story though, whether he just decided to go in early so he could finish sooner and get the afternoon off, or if this is company policy. So I can't comment on the employer vs employee issue. 

Seems ridiculous. If it's such a common problem and fines haven't worked maybe putting the restrictions on the hours wasn't giving the company time to take care of the trash on the budget they had. I know other cities have to have the collected at really early hours because trash collecting in the middle morning commute would be even worse for everyone than the noise.

McGill....well shit he can represent himself!!1 :p

in all seriousness it is ridiculous