An angry mother was shocked to discover the trash she had paid to have hauled away was dumped back on her driveway, costing her $375 to finally have it removed.
Kathleen Grace Moko needed some rubbish removed from her home in Kingsley, north Perth, last Saturday.
She found a moving company on Facebook, set a cash price, and he agreed to do the job the next day.
Ms. Moko said Yahoo News that she helped the hauler load the garbage into his truck and they left the property separately.
But she was stranded on the road after her car broke down when the battery died.
Stressed, she missed calls from the carrier who told her he had been waiting for 30 minutes.
“I agree that I should have answered his calls, but I was in a bit of a mess,” he said.
When she drove past her former property, Ms Moko was shocked to find the rubbish she had paid to have removed was once again dumped in her driveway.
The hauler dumped the trash back on Ms. Moko’s driveway and kept the $80 fee.
Ms. Moko called the moving company, who told her that she had returned the trash because the manager wanted to charge her $45 and she had not responded to their calls.
Ms. Moko claimed that he could have used the $80 she had paid him for the tip, but he simply kept the money in his pocket.
The matter escalated after Ms Moko and the carrier exchanged a series of angry text messages.
“You owe me $80,” he wrote.
The carrier responded: “I did my job… I was there and I picked up.”
Ms Moko replied: “I will report it to the police. They threw rubbish in the house when they took the cash and they did not take the rubbish.”
The carrier replied: “Of course I will report that you did not pay me for the garbage.”
Ms Moko replied: “This is too much. I am broken down on the side of the road… You kept the $80.”
“I’ve been waiting for you for 30 minutes,” the carrier wrote.
Ms. Moko said it cost her a total of $375 to finally get the trash out of her home.
The saga has left Ms Moko frustrated.
“It took him a day to do the work, a few hours to reply to my messages and when I didn’t respond after 30 minutes, he decided to abandon it,” she told Yahoo.
“He claims that I have no proof that I paid him.”
She said she felt exhausted by the experience and that it may only have been $80, “but that really means a lot to me and my autistic son.”
Ms Moko said she had to take out a “small loan” to remove the rubbish, which cost her $295.
The city council collected the mattress.
She said the carrier has since blocked her on social media and has yet to return her $80.
Ms Moko is now considering her legal options.
Ms Moko and the mover exchanged angry messages after he dumped rubbish on her driveway.