A California dumpster company claims a customer filled one of its bins with trash but didn’t pay the bill. So they dumped the customer’s trash all over their driveway, and, naturally, the whole thing was caught on camera.
Express Rental Dumpster owner Martin Perez claims the homeowner in San Pablo, California, was asked repeatedly to pay their bill. He says attempts to process a credit card payment were declined multiple times. Perez claims the homeowner kept telling him that they would “pay later” or add funds to the card.
“It’s declined. They declined the card,” Perez told KTVU News. “They keep saying, like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna pay later. I’m gonna pay later. I’m gonna pay later,’ and never did. Or say, ‘I’m gonna put money on the card so you can charge.’ On Monday – happened like Monday – we tried again. Called. ‘Oh, I forgot.'”
The whole wild scene was caught on camera
Perez claims that the dumpster’s delivery and pickup had already cost him money. He would have had to pay hundreds more in dumping fees if he had taken the trash to the landfill. So, when the driver went to pick up the dumpster, he just unloaded it right in the homeowner’s driveway.
“It didn’t block the street, it kind of went on the sidewalk and a little bit on, literally on the edge of the sidewalk,” a neighbor told KTVU News. “She says she paid $700 for it, and then, all of a sudden, I see him back up and dump it all on the ground. I don’t really know what that was about.”
Neighbor calls police, scavengers go nuts
After a neighbor reportedly called the police, the officers demanded that the dumpster company clear the debris from the sidewalk’s edge onto the property. Scavengers later arrived and spread the debris around again. A neighbor cleaned up and covered the scavengers’ mess.
A case has been opened by San Pablo Code Enforcement. KTVU News reports that the homeowner may be responsible for the cleanup and any damages.