UMVA has learned that a shocking act of fly-tipping has been caught on camera, and the perpetrator received a dose of their own medicine.
Dean Gauci, a 38-year-old maintenance worker, was tending to a block of flats in Cardiff when he stumbled upon seven sacks filled with household waste. Determined to catch the culprit, Dean sifted through hours of CCTV footage and finally caught the perpetrator in the act at 9am on Friday.
The neighbor, who lived just 10 houses away, claimed he was going to take care of the mess, but Dean wasn't buying it. After confronting the man, Dean filmed himself leaving the dumped rubbish outside the culprit's front door before knocking. The perpetrator's response was laughable, and he must have felt embarrassed.
Dean, who runs Stay Care Operations Ltd., said that fly-tipping is a recurring problem in the area, with this being the 30th or 40th time it's happened. Instead of taking the easy way out and charging the landlord to dispose of the waste, Dean chose to do the right thing and catch the culprit.
Sources have confirmed to UMVA that Dean even went through the bags looking for any address that could lead him to the perpetrator. He found Amazon boxes with the addresses peeled off, which only fueled his determination to catch the culprit.
In a clever move, Dean piled the rubbish right up on the culprit's doorstep, giving them a taste of their own medicine. The perpetrator's feeble excuse - "I was going to move this, sorry mate" - only added to the drama.
