A Twin Cities artist stepped outside his apartment last week, glanced at the roll-off dumpster on the curb, and saw there was a chopped-up car inside it.
His one-minute TikTok of the resulting standoff between a Waste Management driver and a Ford Focus has hit 4.9 million views, drawn confirmation from current and former WM employees that nobody on shift is ever taking a load that contains a gas tank, and added another entry to the list of things people are apparently disposing of by tossing them into rented dumpsters.