Winnipeg homeowner receives big bill over uncut lawn while he was stuck abroad

A Winnipeg homeowner is fighting a fee for not mowing his lawn while he was stuck abroad because of the pandemic. Stephanie Tsicos reports.

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40 comments

    1. I expect given I didn’t force my friend to continue taking care when I was supposed to return in Feb which transpired into 5 month ordeal, to help citizen in distress.

  1. They had plenty of time to make it back or get a friend or pay someone to mow the lawn..
    That’s a “You” problem bud.🤷🏻‍♂️

    1. Hi mate, I had other pressing priorities like securing roof, internet, food while stuck abroad dear including flood that was result of cyclone half way across the oceans dear..it is lot easy..you see than paying 250 for an unionized worker and tax grabbers associates you see. Hopefully your life offers you plenty nice sunshine, to stay and feel positive

    2. @Arindom Sinha @Arindom Sinha You’re not helping your situation. Do you think a “non union” company would give you 5 months of lawn care for $250?

      What were you smoking on holidays “dear”?

      Maybe log off YouTube for a couple days while we roast you …..

  2. Seriously, no neighbior thought to quickly take care of the front lawn. If anything not to let thief realise no one is living there.
    As for the city, they did provide the services for a fee like he owner could also have called a landscaping agency.

    1. You’re a certified moron. Where can you get 5 months of snow and lawn services for $250?

      Please, delete your comment. You should be ashamed your brain even put that thought together, much less that you allowed society to consume it over youtube.

      Gross

    2. @Dylan Mackowetzky Except they didn’t perform 5 months of services.
      They mowed his lawn. Once. And charged $250 for it.

    3. @A S that’s a sleazy way of looking at it. The point is what would 5 months have cost on the private market, had he been a responsible home owner?

      Plus they didn’t fine him despite the disgusting overgrown property his neighbours tolerated.

      He should count himself lucky, pay the bill and shut the hell up. Period.

  3. I’m surprised his neighbours would call the city instead of cut it for him. Then again he lives in Waverly West.

  4. I say drop the fees under the condition that he uses the $250 towards a new decent haircut.
    He looks like a Packy version of Moe from The Three Stooges. Lol
    Nuk nuk nuk!

  5. Wow, cry me a river…they took care of it for you, and that doesn’t really seem like much for 4 months

    1. @Arindom Sinha If you can’t be bothered to pay for these things, who will?

      And…what in the world makes you feel entitled to complain about lowly unionized labourers? I doubt these “unionized workers” are living in such a nice house, and taking vacations to the other side of the world…

    2. @Grant Logan Amen Grant. If he doesn’t appreciate Canada, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants we would be much happier to have take his place.

      Can you imagine how ashamed his children must be in school tomorrow to have their clown of a dad in the news?

    3. @Dylan Mackowetzky I don’t really know why you feel so entitled to the soil beneath your feet. I bet you’re a foreigner too

  6. I’ve learned to have someone run the dishwasher, washing machine & flush the toilet monthly if you are away for sometime.

  7. Stand by. I believe he is working on crowd funding….. $250 for the bill. And $15 for that SuperCuts haircut he bought just for TV.

    I’ll post the GoFundMe link as soon as he is done.

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