If you’ve got hundreds of tires to dispose of and don’t own a repair shop or race team, you should probably reexamine your life choices. What you shouldn’t do is dump those tires on someone else’s property and force them to clean up your mess.
As reported by KATU, an ABC News affiliate in Portland, Oregon, local resident Khanh Tran arrived at his recently purchased 1.2-acre property in the city this past weekend with plans of fixing it up. He was confronted with piles of tires stacked up to six feet high. And while the county government is looking for the culprit, it’s unable to help with the cleanup.
“The reason I wanted to buy this property, I think it’s in a beautiful location,” explained Tran, who purchased the land in April. “I didn’t know the disaster that was going to come with it.”
Video from the news station shows tires everywhere. A reporter touring the site said the tires block most of the property and that some had been stacked “to create a makeshift room complete with a table and chairs.” The tires have reportedly been accumulating for months, but Tran doesn’t know where they’re coming from. He and neighbor Heather Harmon speculate that someone is collecting them from local businesses in the guise of a recycling service and dumping them with help from squatters, although no one has been spotted in the act…