\u201cThe bin was cleaned to prevent any issues with odours.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the carcass had already been removed, there was nothing to follow up.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the council\u2019s solid waste bylaw states that public litter bins can\u2019t be used in a manner that creates a nuisance, is offensive, or creates a risk to public health.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clearly not the appropriate place to dump a carcass.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic litter bins are provided for disposing of small amounts of rubbish generated while out and about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yesterday, one of the organisers of the Mid Canterbury Hunting Competition, which happened over the weekend, dismissed claims online that it was related to the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t hear about it on the day, nothing about it now, and it\u2019s Thursday, so nothing to do with us,\u201d Andy Wilson.<\/p>\n
Organisers have no control over what people do outside of the competition, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could have been anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCann said the council was \u201cnot aware of any evidence that would connect this incident to the competition\u201d.<\/p>\n
The incident comes a year after a dead wallaby was dumped in the centre of Ashburton.<\/p>\n
The council\u2019s CCTV network came under scrutiny when it failed to help identify the person responsible.<\/p>\n
The carcass of a Himalayan Tahr was dumped into a public rubbish bin in Methven this week. Photo \/ LDR, Supplied<\/p>\n
The council reported that the CCTV footage captured a 4-wheel drive vehicle entering the West Street car park and a person dragging a wallaby over the rail crossing to the timber seating next to the public toilets on East Street.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was too far away to clearly identify, and the person dragging the wallaby was wearing dark clothing and was also unable to be identified.<\/p>\n
For any prosecution, the CCTV footage has to provide an identifiable image to police.<\/p>\n
– LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe bin was cleaned to prevent any issues with odours. \u201cAs the carcass had already been removed, there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20111,8126,26074,1550,20211,1874,248436,78,196412,111,43,139,69,3109,38019,248437,1961,686],"class_list":["post-496639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bin","tag-canterbury","tag-carcass","tag-centre","tag-dumped","tag-found","tag-himalayan","tag-in","tag-methven","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-public","tag-rubbish","tag-tahr","tag-this","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}