A Canadian real estate agent has been fined $15,000 after he was caught on camera drinking milk straight from the carton in the owner’s fridge, then putting it back as if nothing had happened.
Mike Rose was caught drinking milk straight from the container on surveillance camera at a home in the city of Kamloops that he was showing on July 16.
He was fined C$20,000 on July 18, or approximately $15,162, by the British Columbia Financial Services Authority, a government agency tasked with regulating financial institutions in the Canadian province.
The agency, which found Rose’s actions “improper” under the British Columbia Real Estate Services Act, also ordered Rose to pay an additional C$2,500, or nearly $1,896, in enforcement costs.
Rose said she apologized for the “very unfortunate and very uncharacteristic” incident and vowed she would “never behave like that again.”
A Canadian real estate agent is fined $15,000 after being caught on camera drinking milk straight from the carton in the owner’s fridge, then putting it back like nothing happened.
Rose apologized for the “very unfortunate and very uncharacteristic” incident, vowing that she would “never behave like that again.” ‘I have never done this kind of thing before, nor will I ever behave this way again’
“I have never done this type of thing before, nor will I ever behave this way again,” Rose told CFJC Today.
Rose was waiting for a potential buyer at her client’s home when she began snooping around in the seller’s refrigerator.
Without hesitation, she grabbed a carton of milk and drank a few swallows before putting it back.
The home’s owner, Lyska Fullerton, told the Washington Post that she was completely “shocked” to find out what Rose did at her home while she was away.
The owner found out what happened after looking at her ring camera, which she uses to watch her teenage children to see when they come home.
That’s when Fullerton went back to his Ring camera, a device originally “intended for my teenage children, so I could keep an eye on them and make sure they got home on time,” he told The Washington Post.
When she turned to the culprit two days later, asking him if he had anything to confess to her, he replied: ‘The milk?’ according to the consent order published last Thursday.
He then sent the images to authorities, who issued the ticket.
The footage left Fullerton feeling “totally speechless, in shock and scared.”
“Every part was an invasion of privacy and an invasion of our home,” he told the Washington Post.
In addition to drinking the milk, Fullerton said Rose broke the arm of his couch while leaning on it during the home tour.
The home’s owner, Lyska Fullerton, told the Washington Post that she was completely “shocked” to find out what Rose did at her home while she was away. Rose’s actions meant that Fullerton had to throw away her carton of milk, something that her husband, apparently unaware of the situation, apparently found utterly absurd.
‘In what world do you think it’s okay to do this?’ Fullerton told the outlet. I wouldn’t even do that in my own family’s house.
“This was unprofessional in many ways,” Fullerton told the Washington Post.
Rose’s actions meant that Fullerton had to dispose of her carton of milk, something that her husband, apparently unaware of the situation, apparently found utterly absurd.
“My husband came home and saw me throw a half gallon of milk in the trash,” she said. She looks at me like she’s crazy and he asks me: ‘What are you doing?’
‘You don’t even want to know,’ she replied.
Rose said she apologized directly to the owners, but knows her actions will not be “quickly forgiven or forgotten.”
“I will spend the next few weeks considering my actions, better understanding why I would do this, and working to make sure this type of (behavior) never happens again.
In April, a Ring camera caught the hilarious moment a black bear wandered into a North Carolina man’s backyard, scaring him into relaxing on a deck chair.
