The scourge of Military Trail appears to be using food waste to bait coyotes.

We’ve reported several times on the antics of Garbage Guy, who digs stuff out of trash bins put out to the curb and redistributes it in the Scarborough neighbourhood, which infuriates area residents.

Neighbours who confront him find bottles of yellow liquid on their doorstep or feces smeared on the doors of their homes and their cars.

Police, politicians and area residents have had several meetings about it, but so far nothing deters Garbage Guy from his labours.

More on Garbage Guy at thestar.com:

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John Slimkowich is among those who say Garbage Guy is crazy, but he also seems to know coyotes inhabit the hydro corridor behind his townhouse complex.

Lately, Garbage Guy appears to be piling pilfered food waste at both ends of a footpath that cuts across hydro corridor between Miltary Trail and Purpledusk Trail, where it attracts coyotes, said Slimkowich.

“The walkway is used by parents and their children crossing the corridor for school,” he said. “His … intentions are obvious as he continues to this day to place waste at the entrances to the corridor to feed the wildlife.”

Earlier this winter, a man entered the corridor at the south end and disturbed three coyotes that were foraging in the trash, he said, “only to be attacked by the largest of the three.

“It was nighttime and the biggest of them, which we call the coy-wolf, lunged at him, like he was threatening their food. (The man) was wearing a leather jacket and turned away. The coy-wolf took a chunk of leather out of the shoulder of his coat but he defended himself and they ran off.”

It was the last straw for many residents, said Slimkowich.

When we visited the site Tuesday, we found appalling piles of bagged waste that was obviously rooted out of green bins at both ends of the corridor, which amounts to a feast for scavenging animals.

A small hillside between the back of Garbage Guy’s townhouse and the hydro corridor was strewn with dozens of plastic bottles filled with an amber liquid that looks like what his neighbours suspect it is.

Slimkowich says city officials and police seem powerless to stop Garbage Guy.

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We’ll be checking in later this week with the local city councillor, (open Paul Ainslie's policard)Paul Ainslie (open Paul Ainslie's policard) (Ward 43, Scarborough East), to see what he’s doing, if anything, about the situation. Stay tuned.