A video from the Nextdoor app has been circulated on the web after a resident of Anchorage, Alaska captured a rubbish truck driver aggressively “chasing” a moose down the road. The involved citizen contacted Northern Waste, the driving force’s employer, and the driving force was fired, in keeping with a Fb publish by the waste-management firm on December 31.
Within the video, the worker drives recklessly near the moose, honking repeatedly till the moose and the truck attain the top of the block. When the moose turns and goes in a unique course, the rubbish truck driver lastly backs off.
Right here is the video reposted to YouTube:
Taylor Summers of Anchorage, Alaska initially posted the video on Nextdoor with the caption: “Who taught this driver that this was okay?? I referred to as Northern Waste and despatched this video to them, they weren’t glad.”
Actually, the corporate was incensed, at the least by the look of the corporate’s posts on social media, which repeatedly mentions that Alaskans don’t tolerate this stage of reckless conduct towards wildlife.
One publish learn:
“As beforehand posted, it has been dropped at our consideration {that a} Northern Waste driver was caught driving recklessly by a neighborhood right this moment harassing a moose working down the road. This particular person is NO LONGER EMPLOYED by Northern Waste. We’re Alaskans and we won’t tolerate this conduct, recklessness & cruelty. That is the primary time something like this has occurred and we’re dedicated to creating positive this can by no means occur once more. We promise to uphold our Alaskan values in all enterprise practices. We now have contacted Alaska Division of Fish & Recreation and are implementing additional wildlife sensitivity & security coaching for all drivers. We’re working to answer to all social media feedback, messages, texts & telephone calls.”
Northern Waste additional acknowledged on December 31 that it’ll schedule a name after the vacation weekend to debate the incident.
“We’re implementing additional wildlife sensitivity & security coaching for all Northern Waste drivers and we’re dedicated to creating positive this can by no means occur once more,” Northern Waste mentioned.
The video on Nextdoor garnered practically 300 feedback from different involved neighbors. Outrage was practically ubiquitous amongst those that commented.
