Hundreds of campaign flyers found in Brampton garbage can
Posted October 21, 2014 4:55 pm.
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Canada Post is investigating after a man allegedly dumped hundreds of flyers for three city council candidates into a Brampton garbage can.
Adam Tassone, manager of New Image Car Wash, told CityNews he found the flyers, along with other promotional material and magazines, in the garbage cans over the weekend.
“The last few days, in our normal routine of cleaning up, I’ve come across (the flyers) in the morning,” he said. “There’s got to be thousands of them.”
Tassone said the sheer volume of flyers tipped him off that something was wrong.
“There’s got to be thousands of them,” he explained. “Usually I get a small stack of just waste but this set off red flags.”
Tassone said he contacted the candidates whose flyers had not been delivered, including Caledon town Coun. Rob Mezzapelli and Peel Regional Coun. Patti Foley, before contacting Canada Post and local police.
He said he then went through the car wash’s security video and through a process of elimination and a rough timeline found the footage of what he believes is the incident.
“It shows a male in a dark coloured car, driving up, getting out and going back and forth to the garbage bin and then driving to the next garbage bin and then leaving,” Tassone said. “He didn’t use our facility for anything else other than to use our garbage.”
Tassone then posted the security video on YouTube.
Police told Tassone that they are not investigating the incident because the mail doesn’t contain any addresses.
CityNews tried Peel police to find out if an investigation had been launched. Those calls were not immediately returned.
Mezzapelli and Foley declined to comment on the incident.
