Garbage Guy’s distribution of shopping carts loaded with trash on Military Trail is the least of his revolting tendencies, neighbours say.

Residents around him say he gets even with people who confront him by smearing feces on their cars and garage doors, and even the edges of trash dumpster lids that have been locked to keep him out.

And then there’s the stockpile behind his home of plastic water and pop bottles filled with urine, which extends into the hydro corridor that backs onto his townhouse condo.

Oh dear.

Since our Aug. 24 column on the trash-filled shopping carts he bestows on his neighbourhood, SeeClickFix has been ablaze about Garbage Guy, who sometimes wears a balaclava as a disguise, or a cowboy hat.

And on a tour of the area Friday, escorted by a neighbour, it was apparent he intimidates people — particularly women — by threatening them and evoking the names of their children and pets.

A female neighbour reported on SeeClickFix that his yard is filled with trash and that she “confronted him about pooping in his backyard,” adding he had “his pants down to his ankles.”

She said they were “screaming at each other. He raised his fist at me. I yelled, ‘hit me, you creep,’ but I made the mistake of telling him that as soon as he did, I’d have him arrested.

“He calmed right down. Even asked me if I’d like a beer. I asked him how I’d be able to sell my home with all his garbage around. He told me as long as he pays the bills, he has every right to throw garbage around.

“He knows what he is doing.”

Our escort said a caretaker at a school on Military Trail began locking the dumpsters to keep him out, but he retaliated by smearing poop on the bottom edge of the lid, so the caretaker got two handfuls when he lifted it.

Another area resident said that after the police kicked him off their property, they found feces smeared on their cars and garage doors, adding that “if he even sets a toe in here, we call the police.”

Several people told us about the bottles filled with urine, saying he stores a cache in the hydro corridor behind his unit, and that the smell in summer is sickening.

City Councillor Paul Ainslie said he attended a meeting about Garbage Guy a few months ago that included police, fire and bylaw enforcement officials, but it’s hard to stop him.

“He’s breaking bylaws, but we don’t have the resources to assign an officer just to follow him around,” said Ainslie.

“Besides, it’s hard to deal with what is clearly a mental health issue by looking for bylaw infractions.”

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Amen.