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A Winnipeg business owner is fuming after being overcharged by a private garbage operation for something he says he didnโ€™t do. Brad Wallin, president of Wall...

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[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

We had something similar happen a few times. We even got a padlock from the dumpster company to prevent people from dumping their crap in our bin, but the drivers never re-locked it after emptying the bin, and the lock got lost/stolen within a couple of weeks.

[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 months ago

We had something similar happen a few times. We even got a padlock from the dumpster company to prevent people from dumping their crap in our bin...

That's not what happened here. The driver, on video, is clearly tampering with the bin to stage an "overfill" so the company can charge more. It's 100% fraud, and the police should have been contacted.