Rubbish rubbish disposal

My only knowledge of 'trash chutes' was gleaned from a Friends episode in which Rachel is caught by the friends' building's super trying to shove a pizza box down the too-small chute and a CSI episode in which a university student is found dead, believed killed and chucked down a similarly small chute. So I was always a bit wary of the devices....

But at some point I must have come to take them for granted because I was totally confused when I came across this sign on our building's rubbish disposal chute after the weekend:



Broking? As in, I had to find somewhere else to put my rubbish? I might even have to go outdoors?

And don't lie -- I'm sure you all would have done exactly what I did, which is carefully balance your rubbish on top of everyone else's, then quickly shut the door before the piles of waste come crashing down. It's useful devices like the trash chute that are conspiring to turn me into a total couch potato. If this hadn't broken, I could have happily not gone outdoors for longer than the commute to work until the weather warmed up for good.