Silverdale 'Superman' caught fly-tipping on CCTV
GARAGE owners are appealing for Sentinel readers to identify a van driver wearing a Superman T-shirt who was caught fly-tipping.
CCTV cameras captured a man parking his van outside Silverdale Motors, next to Newcastle Garage, in Silverdale, and then dumping a mattress.
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The Silverdale 'Superman' prepares to dump the mattress.
Co-owner Ian Johnston has upgraded the firm's 14 cameras to catch offenders after constantly finding rubbish dumped outside his Silverdale Road business.
The 37-year-old, of Madeley, pictured below, said: "This person should be named and shamed. Someone is bound to recognise him with his distinctive Superman T-shirt.
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"I can't believe that someone would have the nerve to dump something as large as a mattress outside here. They should know better."
The latest fly-tipping incident happened at around 9pm on Saturday.
Ian found the mattress after going to the garage on Sunday because his burglar alarm was going off.
He added: "At first, I thought the mattress had been used to get into the garage so I was more concerned about the possibility we had been burgled.
"It turns out a bird had set off the alarm but when I was looking through the images, the camera has caught the person who dumped the mattress."
Other dumped items have previously included car tyres, fences, garden waste and even children's toys.
The owners have even had to hire a skip on two occasions because so much rubbish had accumulated.
Ian said: "I've had to pay £50 each time to get rid of the waste because it's been thrown on private land.
"Sometimes, I have had to take it to the skip myself, which is a big inconvenience. It's an ongoing problem."
Fly-tipping is already a problem elsewhere in the area with nearby Hollywood Lane, in Keele, regularly used as a dumping ground because of its secluded location.
Security gates have now been installed in Pepper Street, Finney Green and Scot Hay Road to try to keep fly-tippers out of Hollywood Lane.
Both sites are around two miles from Newcastle's tip in Leycett.
Ian believes the garage has been targeted because of its location.
He said: "Our garage is on a quiet road and there are some hedges nearby which mean some people think they can chuck things without being seen. Well, now we've caught someone in the act."
Ian's twin brother, Robert, of Westbury Park, who also owns the garage, said: "The mattress was so dirty and it had a really bad smell.
"It was really disgusting. We've had a lot of things dumped here before but this is definitely the biggest item."
Staffordshire Police are investigating the fly-tipping after being called in by Ian.
Anyone who knows the identity of the man should call police on 101, quoting incident 574 of December 29.
Comments
by asif1979
Monday, January 07 2013, 2:27PM
“its super ***** last seen flying over the ***** site”
by Backdoored
Friday, January 04 2013, 9:19AM
“It does appear that my comments have upset someone. Hopefully he'll get over it.”
by BearTraps
Thursday, January 03 2013, 10:03PM
“@ Backdoored cant stop laughing that was short and sweet,you must be a taker as there is no reply as your teeth must be clenched to your pillow”
by Real_Stokie
Thursday, January 03 2013, 8:52PM
“@ Bear Twerp make me cry with laughter.... well, you just do.”
by BearTraps
Thursday, January 03 2013, 8:24PM
“@ blackguyfawke The stench of backdoored mattress not even the super hero could take the stench no more what a plum probably gets tea bagged every morning.”
by blackguyfawke
Thursday, January 03 2013, 7:59PM
“@backdoored Does your user name stand for pillow biter you sure you never had your backdoored smashed all over that mattress,i dont blame the superhero for dumping it after you been backdoored on it,i so enjoy beartraps comments.”
by Backdoored
Thursday, January 03 2013, 7:47PM
“You'r scrambling lad -scrambling. What a mug.”
by BearTraps
Thursday, January 03 2013, 7:35PM
“@ Backdoored so you're telling me you have so much clean water, that you sh.t in it? from rebel”
by Backdoored
Thursday, January 03 2013, 7:02PM
“The boring attention seeking beartwap -obsessed with his image as the - 'I'm a rebel and I don't care' -to foist repeatedly on us all.
Takes all sorts I suppose.”
by BearTraps
Thursday, January 03 2013, 5:40PM
“@ Real_Stokie make me laugh cying about one man and a mattress,i would want to cry about where all our rubbish is realy being dumped,everyone pays the local council to pollute third world countries, the cheek of it reycling to get a discount when dumping it in third world countries,so now when separating your plastic to your paper and glass its then sent to other countries at a discount because you have separated it,reycle to keep your own enviorment clean and tidy but nobody elses just desgined to get a discount in the third world countries so they dont have to sort it,oh but your streets are so much more important as long as you dont see it you dont care,sorry we do recycle some stuff just not the harmfull stuff,are you hurting now as the rest of the world is”