Mum left puzzled after binman with ‘vendetta’ launches wheelie bin into lorry

A binman was caught on CCTV launching a grandmother’s bin right into a lorry, garbage and all.

Amanda Nicholson, 46, has advised how she wheeled her bin onto the road exterior her house in Wythenshawe, Manchester, as regular one morning final month however discovered the container was lacking completely the subsequent day.

The mum-of-five was initially puzzled in regards to the disappearance, with the gray bin having gone lacking two weeks beforehand – till her neighbour handed over a video recording.

Emma Probert caught the binman on CCTV hefting all the container right into a waste assortment truck after she wheeled it to the kerbside on July 10.

She mentioned the footage initially left her enraged, however over time, she realised the extra she watched, the “funnier it gets”.

Ms Nicholson advised the Manchester Evening News she initially assumed Ms Probert had taken the meals and waste bin into her house by chance and went to talk to her neighbour.

She went throughout the road and took the bin on her property, leaving the neighbour confused when she returned house to search out hers lacking.

Ms Probert found the “peculiar” scene when she investigated what had occurred by checking her CCTV.

Ms Nicholson mentioned the footage confirmed the unidentified binman initially showing to empty the bins’ contents into the truck as regular.

But, after “checking nobody is watching”, he’s seen doing what the grandma described as a “strong man act” and throwing the entire bin after the garbage.

She mentioned: “In the video, it comes down and he just picks it up, checks there’s nobody in the garden, and just throws it. There he was, doing his strong-man act with my bin.

“The different bin man does not even bat an eyelid both prefer it’s regular. Have I irritated my bin man or one thing? Is it a vendetta?”

Biffa, the waste management firm which handles household and municipal refuse on behalf of Manchester City Council, claimed the man believed the bin was damaged, but Ms Nicholson disagreed.

She said the container was in good condition, leaving her bemused as to why it was taken.

The firm has since apologised for the incident, given the mum a new bin, and pledged to take “inside motion” to make sure the incident is not repeated.