Atlanta sanitation worker Kevin McGill will be spending his weekends in jail after prosecutors sentenced handed him a 30-day sentence. His punishment isn’t because he wasn’t doing his job, however, but because he was doing it at the wrong designated time: before 7 a.m. His early bird trash pick-up violated a city law that’s meant to keep people from waking up in the middle of the night.
His attorney — who wasn’t present during his sentencing — is now filing a motion to withdraw McGill’s plea in hopes of doing away with the jail time. As silly as the law may seem, I *personally* was kept awake until 3 a.m. last night because of sanitation trucks, so I’m running a little low on sympathy this afternoon.