Homeowner catches new neighbors on CCTV using his garbage can as their own after they deny any wrongdoing: 'She thought the bins were shared. Shared??? It's a bin on the side of my house!'

It's remarkable how some neighbors will tie themselves into knots to lie to the people next door instead of just asking for help.

This couple had recently moved into a quiet suburban neighborhood, and the aftermath of their move was still taking some time. Boxes upon boxes still needed to be unpacked, and, as a result, there was still a ton of trash to dispose of with each new step they took toward getting settled. Anyone who has gone through the process of becoming a homeowner probably has been here before, and we're certain that other folks in the neighborhood could empathize with their delayed move-in process.

However, the problem arose when one neighbor, who shared their side of the story with members of this online community, noticed that his private trash cans were being filled to the brim with this couple's garbage. Not only did they deny this at first, but they also had the audacity to claim that the garbage bins were shared among residents of the neighborhood, even though they were fully located on the neighbor's private property. Keep scrolling below to find out how the confrontation between these two parties went down.

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Came home to my garbage bin full of someone else's garbage for weeks

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Look, it's one thing to make a mistake and assume you won't get caught, but it's quite another to get caught in the act and then play dumb. That's what this couple tried to get away with… until they were fully seen on the homeowner's CCTV footage.
It sounds like the homeowner has a strong relationship with other residents in this neighborhood, so in his mind, there was likely no universe in which he was expecting to point a security camera at his garbage can to spy on potential neighbors. Still, desperate times call for desperate measures, and at a certain point, this guy needed to know who was constantly trespassing and leaving their trash all over the place.
As for the couple, these two simply could have reached out and politely asked if they could use his garbage cans to dispose of extra trash while they were unpacking. That could have avoided a ton of tension and passive-aggression from both parties in this scenario. It just goes to show that asking for neighborly support is always the way to go over being duplicitous with the people you have to live among for the foreseeable future.
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