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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/6mac17 on 2024-05-05 20:39:10.
A 3 weeks ago I was walking my dog through the neighborhood (planned community, so pretty big) doggo did his business and I being a decent human being picked up said poo. A couple houses down from me was a dumpster on the street. As I walked by I threw the poo away. The homeowner promptly came running out the garage and started screaming obscenities at me for using his dumpster. I apologized and said no disrespect meant I just saw a dumpster and thought it wouldn’t be a problem. Homeowner continued yelling at me demanding I jump into the dumpster to fish the shit out. He then said he would call the sheriffs, not wanting to cause a stir or take law enforcement resources away from what was needed I jumped in grabbed the shit out, and saw that there were hazardous materials in the dumpster that were illegal IE paint, paint stripping, fluorescent lights, and other chemical materials. I asked the homeowner if they were doing any fun renovations. At this point he had calmed down and said yes just finishing an ADU as well as adding two extra rooms and bathrooms. At this point I noticed that there were no postings on the house that this was ok’d by the city and county (LA County and the city I live in requires permits to be posted on the garage door/front of the house denoting that the construction is permissible). Now after being yelled at for throwing a bag of dog shit away in a dumpster that had hazardous materials in it on a house that was undergoing unsanctioned construction, I did what any NIMBY neighbor would do, I called city and county code enforcement explaining the above situation and what I saw in the dumpster, I didn’t say anything about the additions.
Cue 2 days later I am walking the doggo on the same route only to find code enforcement and sheriffs in the garage with the homeowner loudly discussing the non-approved additions.
About a week after seeing the sheriffs and code enforcement, I was walking the doggo on the same route and came across a neighbor of the homeowner that had the dumpster, we started chit-chatting and the neighbor said that the last week had interesting with county code enforcement citing the homeowner for non-approved construction, non-code, plumbing, electricity and not getting permitted approval for adding an ADU, to top it off they were also cited for dumping hazardous materials.
Long and short of the story, don’t get pissy when someone is throwing their dog shit away when doing non-approved additions.
Edit 1 - some comments are saying this isn’t malicious compliance, I forgot to add our community recently switched collection providers for trash collection and we have all gotten notices to follow SB 1383 and report instances where this isn’t being followed. Gotta love NIMBY Jesus on Suburbia towns