A fed-up Aussie has confronted an Asian immigrant he caught illegally dumping rubbish in a quiet Sydney suburb and forced him to pick it all up again.
The concerned citizen, named Ryan, told Noticer News he saw the dumper, who he believes was Chinese, leaving several large bags of rubbish on someone else’s front lawn in Castle Hill on Tuesday morning.
He said the man could not speak a word of English, but he yelled at him until he collected all the rubbish, and shared photos of the clean-up taken from inside his car.
“I was honestly just gobsmacked, he was so brazen about it,” Ryan said.
“He first walked off after I told him off, and only came back to grab it when I came back around and yelled again.
“He only picked it up because I called him out on it.”
The incident is the latest in a series of similar confrontations that have unfolded across Australia and the Western world this year alone.
Last month a Canadian filmed himself forcing three Indian men to pick up an illegally dumped couch and take it to a tip, and two weeks before that a Melbourne woman caught an Indian man dumping boxes of rubbish outside her home in the middle of the night.
In April a New Zealander shared video of him making two Indians put their illegally dumped rubbish back in their car, and in January a viral clip showed a Queenslander doing the same thing to an Asian man who had just thrown a boot-load of furniture into the bush.
Data released earlier this year showed a huge increase in illegal dumping across Australia, with Victoria the worst affected state and responsible for half of all reports.
Header image: Left, right, the man picking up his rubbish after being called out (supplied).
