After spending hours cleaning up piles of illegally dumped trash in West Oakland, a neighborhood volunteer says he was robbed of his camera right at the curb he was trying to clean up. The man, who has built a small online following by documenting his solo cleanups, says someone grabbed his camera at a street corner after he had already filled dozens of bags. He says the theft left him shaken, and for now, he plans to pause doing cleanups alone.
Volunteer Says He Filled About 80 Bags
In his Reddit post, the volunteer wrote that he spent roughly 10 hours across three days removing about 80 bags of trash from 16th Street and that he found more than 60 used syringes while cleaning. He said the theft happened when he paused to photograph the cleanup for…..