A fed-up Canadian man has forced a group of Indians to pick up a couch they illegally dumped and take it to a local waste facility.
Taylor Mailer shared video of the three men retrieving the piece of furniture from a forested area in Mission, British Columbia, on Friday, and putting it back in their U-Haul truck.
He then filmed them driving to the Mission Sanitary Landfill and disposing of the couch legally.
“Call it a lesson in being Canadian,” he captioned the video.
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Mr Mailer told Noticer News the three Indian men initially denied throwing the couch off the side of the road near his home.
“I saw them racing down the road and knew they had dumped something,” he said.
“Stopped them and accused them. They lied and convinced me they hadn’t.
“Then I went back and saw the couch. Took me two hours of driving around town to find them again. Made them drive back and clean it up.”
The incident comes as an Indian-owned trucking company is being sued by the Ministry of Environment and Parks over alleged for-profit illegal dumping on a former blueberry farm near Mission.
A petition filed to the BC Supreme Court as part of the civil suit late last year alleged the owners of company caused “irreversible and irreparable” damage to wetlands on the property and the surrounding area.
“In pursuit of profit, the respondents have destroyed the wetland under meters of construction fill, have irredeemably changed and harmed the regional ecosystem, threatened the economic viability of the area, and caused irreparable cultural damage to the local Indigenous community,” the petition read.
Last month locals in another part of the same province called out an Indian man they caught washing clothes with toxic detergents in a pristine stream.
Header image: Left, right, the men picking up the illegally dumped couch (Instagram).
