A commercial dumpster has become a nuisance for neighbors in one San Antonio neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Homeowners say the lid on the dumpster is often left open, creating a source of food for rodents.<\/p>\n
After getting nowhere with business owners, they reached out to FOX SA’s Problem Solver Darian Trotter.<\/p>\n
Investigative Reporter Darian Trotter asked, “Why are you worried?” Teresa Gonzales replied, “Do you like living with rats?” Because they’re nasty, they cause disease and I don’t need that problem.”<\/p>\n
But a problem Teresa Gonzales has, and a problem, on the ground… that can be traced back to a commercial dumpster in the parking lot behind her home.<\/p>\n
“It is always open,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
The dumpster itself is not the problem. But Teresa says the lid, left unlocked and wide open is.<\/p>\n
“It is always open and it’s attracting rodents,” Gonzales said. “And there’s always trash scattered everywhere.”<\/p>\n
Teresa was first alerted to the problem by her dogs Maggie and Ivy.<\/p>\n
“My dog saw it,” Gonzales said. “My dog was watching something on my patio all night long.”<\/p>\n
That something, she’s describing were rodents. Big ones.<\/p>\n
Trotter asked, “How big are they?” Gonzales replied, “They’re about this big. They’re pretty big.”<\/p>\n
Teresa says the commercial dumpster is a magnet of sorts, and not just for rodents.<\/p>\n
It also attracts vagrants searching for food scraps, and bad actors who dump illegally.<\/p>\n
“And there’s always trash scattered everywhere,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
In the back yard of her northeast side home.<\/p>\n
“The rodents are now living underneath my shed, which is making a problem for me because I don’t want them in my yard, much less my house,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
Here’s why she’s especially concerned about rodents getting inside her home.<\/p>\n
She has an electronic doggy door for the girls; which could make for easy access for unwanted guests.<\/p>\n
“I trapped one of them on my patio,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
Trotter asked, “What did you do with it? I took it in the yard and hit it with a shovel, and i disposed of it.”<\/p>\n
Make no mistake, Teresa lives in the real world and says she knows, rodents are out there. But…<\/p>\n
“I’ve never had a problem with them being in my yard until now,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
And so — what did she do? Well, she marched herself right over and confronted the business owner about the dumpster.<\/p>\n
And showed pictures as proof of the problem.<\/p>\n
“I told them that trash can is causing me a rat infestation,” Gonzales said. <\/p>\n
Trotter asked, “What did they say? They gave me a phone number for a lady that is in charge and I called her,” Gonzales said. “And I’ve called her several times. She doesn’t seem very interested in doing anything.”<\/p>\n
We reached out to Code Enforcement.<\/p>\n
When officers went out they saw the problem, telling us the recycling dumpster was full with the lid wide open.<\/p>\n
The owner was given a notice of violation and 14-days to fix the issue of face stiff fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A commercial dumpster has become a nuisance for neighbors in one San Antonio neighborhood. Homeowners say the lid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-371882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}