"Conscience Discarded for 1200 Won"... Volume-Based Waste Bag Thief Dumping Others' Trash

A story about someone tearing open a volume-based garbage bag, spilling the trash, and filling it with their own garbage has been posted online, sparking outrage among netizens.

A story has been shared about finding someone else's trash inside a volume-based waste bag instead of the trash they had disposed of themselves.
[Photo source = Online community 'BobaeDream' capture]

On the 3rd, a post titled "A New Type of Scoundrel Appearing in Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do" was uploaded on the online community BobaeDream. The author, Mr. A, who lives in Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do, said, "Yesterday, I put out a 50ℓ volume-based garbage bag at the designated trash disposal spot in front of my house, but today I found that it contained different items."

Mr. A explained, "Curious about what it was, I looked closely and found that someone had torn open the bag containing my trash, illegally dumped my garbage around, and then left their own trash in the bag."

He shared photos of the volume-based garbage bag and the trash scattered on the ground, explaining, "The trash I threw away is scattered around, but the volume-based bag contains items like a blanket and a hat, which I did not discard."

He added, "I reported it to the police and filed a complaint with Osan City Hall," lamenting, "Are they ruining their life over a 50ℓ volume-based garbage bag?" The price of a 50ℓ general-use (pink) volume-based garbage bag in Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do, is 1,200 won per bag.

Netizens who read the story responded with comments such as, "Could they really do that just because they didn’t want to waste the garbage bag?" "This is absurd," and "I’m speechless, it’s outrageous." One netizen commented, "I had a similar experience, so now I write my address in large letters with a marker before throwing out the trash."

There have been previous incidents where someone spilled the trash from another person’s volume-based garbage bag and filled it with their own garbage.

Earlier in January, a man in his 60s was booked without detention on charges of embezzlement of abandoned property after opening a volume-based garbage bag and spilling the trash in a residential area of Songjeong-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju. The bag belonged to a nearby cafe that had put out household waste, and the cafe owner reported to the police after being fined for being falsely accused of illegal dumping, leading to the suspect’s arrest.

In 2020, in Busan, a man in his 60s who spilled the contents of trash bags at a recycling station and stole two 75ℓ volume-based garbage bags was brought to trial and fined 500,000 won, about 100 times the price of the bags at that time.

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