A restaurateur takes revenge: he brings the waste back into his container and buries the culprit’s car

The owner of a restaurant in Gatineau took revenge on a citizen who came in the middle of the night to throw his garbage at his business by bringing him back with his garbage bags, thanks to the civic address visible on an old cardboard box.

“This is not the first time this has happened at the restaurant. And since the person had spent a lot of energy filling our containers, this time I put just as much effort into returning his bins to him,” says Claude Roy, owner of the restaurant La Destination.

Its manager, who had the impression that the containers were fuller than the day before, discovered the pot of roses on Wednesday morning after seeing the surveillance cameras. We see a black Mazda car making several rounds to get rid of waste in the containers of this restaurant on rue Masson, between 03.00 and 04.00.

“After that, our recycling was full and a good portion of our dumpster,” laments Roy, who estimates the person left about thirty large black bags.

By chance, the restaurateur found the information about the offending citizen, whose citizen’s address and telephone number were visible on a discarded delivery box.

Expensive for traders

“I only brought him a quarter of the waste in his yard. Above all, I wanted to send a message. It has to stop because it is costing us dearly,” insists Claude Roy.

The merchant pays about $1,000 a month for the private company that picks up the restaurant’s waste. “And if we have to stack it next to the container because it overflows, we have to pay for one more lift,” he explains.

In September 2019, the City of Gatineau implemented a waste policy that allows households to put a single 120-litre container on the road during collection every two weeks. However, citizens can get tags at a price of around 50 øre each, which they attach to the collars of excess bags.