Luckily, the Baldwins found out who had dumped the tires, contacted him, and gave him the opportunity to make right by clearing the tires and taking them, for free, to the city dump,
But the asshole never showed. So, with some help from friends, he took them back to Matthew Parkyn
'He came down and he said he was going to move them so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and a couple of days breathing – but he never moved them. 'I thought he must have forgot so I took them back to remind him.
The video shows a tractor with a trailer full of tires depositing them on the unsuspecting homeowner's lawn.
As the tires begin to fall Stuart can be heard saying: 'Fucking fantastic, that's what that fucker gets!'
At least eight men at the scene throw the tires into Parkyn's front garden and driveway, then Stuart shouts: 'I got about to 421 tires, but there might be a bit more.'
A photo then shows the house's front garden completely covered in the rubber.
'Flytippers are always dumping on our farm, it probably happens 25 times a year.
'It's tyres and rubbish you get allsorts. I just thought 'I've had enough of this'.
'We put a camera up and he came back with some tyres and we just got him.
'My daughter put a picture up on Facebook and we tracked him down.
Martin Montague, creator of the fly-tipping reporting app and website ClearWaste.com, said: "Farmers like him are plagued with fly-tipping and it costs them a fortune to get it cleared up.
"Fly-tipping is a major problem in this country, whether it is in towns and cities or the countryside.
ClearWaste.com says fly-tipping up 76% this year with criminals taking advantage of closed and restricted tips due to the coronavirus to rip off householders by claiming to be legitimate waste carriers.
So, under the disguise of legit waste haulers, they get paid by homeowners and landowners to clear off refuse, and then instead of properly taking it to the city or county garbage dump, they instead, toss it off on a farmers property
Now the farm is set right, cleaned up of the tires
THIS time I'll forgive the video being vertical instead of horizontal, but god damn it, PEOPLE! Tell the other idiots to record horizontal!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8627203/amp/Landowner-uses-tipper-truck-pile-400-tyres-lawn-fly-tipper.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/14/tyre-dump-comes-full-circle-fly-tipper-farmer-gets-revenge/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mans-revenge-flytipper-who-dumped-22524100
It's certainly a problem here. We often see rubbish dumped in our local area, everything from a carrier bag full to a lorry load. It's also on the towpath when we're canal cruising.
ReplyDeleteHopefully it will become less of an issue (though won't disappear completely) now that the local recycling centres are opening up again.