Mavelikkara: The two women were in a hurry. They rode their scooter to the Kochikkal Road at Kandiyoor around 8:30 pm and lobbed off their garbage bags to their usual spot. So far, so good.
The next morning, the stink was back in the house. The rubbish had been traced back to its rightful owner. A resident of Kochikkal Road had taken the trouble to sift through the refuse and recover bills that contained the address and phone number of the litterer.
He called up the number and asked the receiver to take back the garbage bag. He also told them that he had them recorded in the act on a surveillance camera.
The litterers apologised profusely and promised never to repeat the offense. They rode back to their “dumping ground” and took back the bags they discarded the previous evening.
The Kochikkal Road resident was forced to install a surveillance camera after he was irritated by a stream of people throwing their domestic waste in front of his house. He traced the offenders with a quick examination of the bag they threw off. It had receipts from an LPG agency and a jewellery shop in the town.
