Eastgate Bondi Junction: Charity bin ‘miner’ caught red-handed by locals as he removes donated items
A man has been caught red-handed risking his life while rummaging through donated items in a charity bin in an affluent shopping centre.
Shocked shoppers at Eastgate Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east were shocked to see the man’s legs dangling from the Make-A-Wish Foundation charity bin.
Some initially feared the worst and thought the man had fallen into jail.
They quickly realized that the man was looking for expensive designer items.
DJ claimed the man wore a headlamp and poked around inside for 15 minutes. He also noticed a pile of designer handbags and luxury backpacks lying near and on top of the trash can.
He chose not to confront the man, but posted photos of the man brazenly diving headfirst into the bin after using a cart to climb in.
The man climbed into the charity box with a cart and looked for what he could take with him
“Someone so bold won’t listen to someone who tells them not to do it,” DJ wrote.
‘This man helped himself to all kinds of things. Designer handbags, high-quality backpacks, powerful and expensive flashlight. Looks like it wasn’t the first time.’
He rejected claims from commentators who suggested the man needed the items as the cost of living continued.
“The argument that he took things for his family is absolutely nonsense because the things he took were luxury items,” he wrote.
DJ said Yahoo News Australia The man leaned on the ground with one hand as he rummaged through the bags upside down.
‘I would suggest it is a matter for him. And I would like to say that he is doing very well in this current economic crisis,” he told the news site.
DJ spoke out to warn others who donate unwanted belongings to charity bins, which have also become a haven for those who dump rubbish.
‘People think they are doing the right thing by throwing (their goods) in the bins and feel good about that, instead of throwing something away. That is (now) under threat,” DJ said.
The bizarre incident took place at Eastgate Bondi Junction (pictured)
Shocked customers initially feared the man (pictured) had fallen into the bin
DJ alerted the mall’s management and authorities in the hope that the problem would be addressed, but claimed that ‘no one cares.’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Eastgate Bondi Junction for comment.
The bodies of two women and a teenage boy were found dead in charity bins in three separate incidents in as many months in 2021.
Mikki O’Shea, 43, died after becoming stuck in a charity bin behind a Gold Coast shopping center in April 2021.
Three months later the body of mother-of-one Alarrah Lawrence, 33, was found ‘half-in-half-out’ in a charity bin in Rockingham, south of Perth.
Teenager Spencer Benbolt Jr., 13, was also crushed to death when the dumpster he was sleeping in was emptied into a garbage truck in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
A woman suffered the same fate in a charity dumpster at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne’s northwest in July 2020, as did a man in Sydney in 2015.
Concerned shoppers alerted Eastgate Bondi Junction (pictured) to the brazen act