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Sanitation Man Sent To Jail For Working Too Early

The sanitation worker, Kevin McGill, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being cited for simply picking up the trash shortly after 5 a.m, one time

A sanitation worker in an Atlanta has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for getting to work too early.According to 6ABC.com, Kevin McGill was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating a Sandy Springs ordinance that says workers can only haul trash between the hours of 7am and 7pm.McGill was cited for picking up the trash just after 5am one morning.He says he could not believe when the prosecutor asked the judge for the maximum punishment."I was stunned. I didn't know what to think. I was shocked," he said.The prosecutor, Bill Riley, makes no apologies for locking sanitation workers up."Fines don't seem to work," Riley said.He says they are a nuisance to sleeping residents.McGill had only been on the job for three months.Now he has to spend the next 14 weekends in jail, while he works during the week... after 7am.

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