Morley WA resident’s shock after his wheelie bin disappeared – only for home security footage to reveal its hilarious fate

A man had to check his security camera after waking up on the day of garbage collection to find his trash can missing.

The man from Morley, Western Australia, soon discovered that a ‘hungry’ garbage truck had taken his green waste container during his morning round.

After waking up to find his trash bin missing, the man checked his CCTV footage to see that the truck’s hydraulic arm had accidentally dropped the bin into the trash compactor.

He said the garbage truck that stole his rubbish had L-plates and laughed off the incident as ‘quite funny actually’ as he spoke with Yahoo Australia.

After reporting the incident, the resident’s municipality responded ‘very apologetically’ and the bin was quickly replaced.

After checking his CCTV footage, the man realized that the garbage truck had accidentally dropped his bin into the waste compactor

The man made it clear that he had no grudge against the novice waste picker and that the incident made for a good story.

“It was pretty clear it was an accident, Ccuncil replaced the bucket quickly, they were very apologetic,” he said.

“Students make mistakes, I suspect the hydraulic arm may take some time to master.”

Another resident of nearby Fremantle shared a similar story online of how their bin was taken in a similar manner.

City of Fremantle waste manager Vitor Martins told the publication “These things can and will happen.”

Mr Martins added ‘a quick replacement is guaranteed’ and that these types of incidents are ‘extremely rare’.

The truck’s hydraulic arm often struggles to grip slippery buckets, he explained, adding that driver error is also sometimes a factor.

However, Mr Martins did not know exactly which of these factors had led to the man from Morley’s tank going missing.

Bin nappings are not exclusive to Morley and Fremantle, as one man from Swan clarified.

Blair Maughan shared a video of his own experiences with hungry garbage trucks in the comments section of the original video.

Mr Maughan’s video shows the truck quickly scooping up his waste bin before dropping it into the compactor.

Blair Maughan said the problem of bins disappearing was not exclusive to Morley as the same thing had happened to him

Another person added that the same thing had happened to him and that they had managed to capture the exact moment the truck’s arm lost its grip.

Another man offered an alternative explanation for how bins accidentally end up in the backs of trucks.

“It happens quite often, the council told me when I ordered a new one, after I saw the truck swallow my bin,” Bruce Hutchins wrote.

‘If you push too much heavy stuff in and it expands against the side and can’t fall out, the weight pulls the bin out of the clamp.’

One woman added that it had happened to her too and her bin was replaced the following week.

However, Mr Martins disputed it was a widespread problem, claiming his council could count the number of bins stolen since 2020 ‘on one hand’.

He said there are two ways people can report their bins missing if it does happen to them.

One method was for the garbage collector to report the incident himself after seeing it happen, and the second was for residents to report it themselves.

“The city is committed to same-day replacement so no one is left in the dark,” he said.