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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Living_Being700 on 2026-06-11 18:04:14+00:00.

my elderly neighbor has been living next to me for the 2 years i've been here, really nice guy, lives alone. last week i noticed his bins were still inside his front gate on collection day, truck was literally coming down the street and i knew he'd miss it. so i just opened his gate, wheeled them out to the pavement real quick and left them there for the truck.

didn't think anything of it and went back inside.

turns out he'd gone on a golf trip for a few days with his mates, one of those trips where they're out on the course all day and basically unreachable. his daughter had set up a ring camera at the front of the house a while back but the angle only really covers the front door, so what she saw on the alert was just someone opening the gate and walking into her dads property. no context, no bins, nothing.

i'm not in the local facebook group, didn't even know it existed. so when she posted the clip asking if anyone knew who i was i had absolutely no idea.

next morning at 7am two police officers knocked on my door. a neighbor had recognized my jacket and pointed them my way. i'm standing there half asleep trying to explain the bin situation while they're looking at me like i've lost the plot.

they were fine about it once i explained, one of them even laughed, but the whole street had already seen the post by then. my neighbor got back, knocked on my door completely mortified and wouldn't stop apologizing which somehow made the whole thing more uncomfortable.

TL;DR wheeled my neighbors bins out on collection day while he was away on a golf trip, his daughter's ring camera only caught me walking into the property, got posted to the local facebook group, had police knock on my door at 7am. i will never touch another persons bins again.