Two people upset with Vancouver's ongoing garbage strike took matters into their own hands Thursday, and spilled trash outside the home of a city councillor.
"I looked out the window to see two individuals in black hoodies dumping garbage on my front lawn," Councillor Kim Capri told CTV British Columbia.
She joked that the strongest language she could muster was: "Hey, that's not very nice!" But it worked, and the pair ran off.
Capri isn't the first politician targeted by pranksters fed up with the six-week old strike.
Last Friday, trash was strewn outside the condominium building of Mayor Sam Sullivan. Now, he's angry that one of his councillors was targeted.
He called the littering an attempt at "intimidation" that could fuel further acts against politicians.
Vancouver's Anti-Poverty Committee has taken responsibility for both incidents and said it was acting in solidarity with striking outside workers.
But Barry O'Neil, president of CUPE British Columbia, denounced the pranksters and said the union doesn't want to target individual politicians.
"We don't think that the battle should be personal," he said. "It's not against Kim or any other councillor; it's about getting people back to work."
The Committee has gained notoriety by protesting against the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, which it blames for taking money and housing away from the city's poor.
The group has refused to speak with Â鶹´«Ã½, because the network is the official broadcaster for the Games. But it did send a fax explaining its motives for dumping trash on Capri's lawn.
With a report from CTV British Columbia
