Brisbane residents go crazy for bin outings while in isolation

It’s the latest global social media phenomenon and Brisbane residents have ‘bin’ going crazy for it. Check out some of the hilarious ways locals are getting in on the act.

GREAT Danes pulling bin chariots, fishermen reeling in rubbishy sea creatures and newlyweds posing with their rubbish – it’s the latest global social media phenomenon and Brisbane residents have ‘bin’ going crazy for it.

They have joined more than 740,000 people worldwide dressing up to take out their bins and posting photos and videos to a Bin Isolation Outing Facebook page.

There are hilarious posts of bins with male fairies, superheroes, dancers and dinosaurs and bins being ‘taken out’ on dates, mowing the lawn or on surfboards.

Nicole Brandon of Park Ridge South and her five-year-old Great Dane Baxter in their Bin Hur chariot. Picture: Renae Droop

Nicole Brandon of Park Ridge South said she loved the opportunity to make people smile with help from Baxter, her 60kg Great Dane.

“I’m on annual leave and had nothing else better to do,” Miss Brandon said.

“I always joked about having a Great Dane chariot and then I thought a bin would make a great chariot.

“Baxter absolutely loves it. He’s done professional photography shoots and he loves the attention. He’s a show dog as well.”

Nicole Brandon with Baxter the Great Dane dressed as Buzz Lightyear. Picture: Renae Droop

Baxter has also appeared on the page dressed as Buzz Lightyear, which proved challenging.

“It’s so difficult to find costumes to fit a Great Dane. I used a kid’s costume and I had to stretch it and rip it.”

In Manly West, Kristi Lockhart Turner roped in her fishing-mad Yaringa St neighbours to make their own music video.

In the short clip, the residents emulate their ocean adventures in their boat in the front yard with the bins acting as anything from a marlin to crabs and even dolphins.

“I did a different video last week, they (neighbours) shook their heads at me and laughed so I got them involved this week,” Ms Turner said.

“A few different neighbours decorated a bin each.

“They called me crazy but happily invested their time to help and I believe it gave us a fun activity to keep our minds busy and get creative.”

Ms Turner’s first post for the page was a hilarious video of her bins watching a movie, which she calls a ‘Binema’.

Lee Withers and Chris Boehm, of Albany Creek, on their wedding day on April 12. After the ceremony they took their bin out to the footpath to post on the Bin Isolation Outing Facebook page.

On the northside, Albany Creek newlyweds Lee Withers and Chris Boehm eloped with a secret outdoor wedding on Easter Sunday before posing with their bin.

“I’ve been following the Bin Isolation Outing thing on Facebook and one of my friends said it was so funny and I said ‘we have to go do that’,” Ms Withers said.

“We were still in our wedding clothes. My husband … was on board – that might have been because he’d had a few drinks.

“We were each going to take a photo of the other but a neighbour took a photo with both of us.”

Oscar the Grouch and mates from Brisbane. Picture: Facebook/Kelly Johnstone

The idea behind the Facebook page is, because we are all isolating in our homes to help stop the spread of COVID-19, our bins are going our more than we are “so let’s dress up for the occasion”.

People are having so much fun some have admitted they are doing fake bin runs so they can be involved.