Cast out the beam in thine own eye...

Suggestion that vehicle owners will be sent fixed-penalty notices by the local council if litter is observed being thrown from their vehicle - irrespective of who actually threw it.  You know (or should do if you read this blog) my views on fixed-penalty notices generally but what occurred to me is - will this apply to bin lorries?  When I go my morning walk on a Monday, I invariably coincide with a bin lorry doing its thing, and more often than not there are little piles of rubbish left behind it in the road.  I can remember a time when the bin lorry was always followed by a man with a brush and a little dust cart, but those days are long gone.  So the question is - will the council be fining itself?