{"id":44821,"date":"2026-02-20T16:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44821"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:38:56","slug":"fly-tipping-dog-caught-on-cctv-in-sicily-video-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44821","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping dog caught on CCTV in Sicily \u2013 video | Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump rubbish bags by the roadside in an attempt to outsmart anti-fly-tipping cameras, municipal police have said. The &#8216;canine courier&#8217; was caught on newly installed surveillance footage, prompting officers to post the clip on the city\u2019s official Facebook page with a pointed message: &#8216;Inventiveness can never become an alibi for incivility.&#8217; The owner has since been identified and fined.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal dumping is a chronic problem across Italy, particularly in the south. Authorities recorded more than 9,300 waste-related offences in 2023 \u2013 a 66% increase on the previous year \u2013 as councils increasingly turn to camera traps and smart monitoring systems to catch offenders in the act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump rubbish bags by the roadside in an attempt to outsmart anti-fly-tipping cameras, municipal police have said. The &#8216;canine courier&#8217; was caught on newly installed surveillance footage, prompting officers to post the clip on the city\u2019s official Facebook page with a pointed message: &#8216;Inventiveness can never<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1864,636,2752,23196,4397,23197,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-44821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-caught","9":"tag-cctv","10":"tag-dog","11":"tag-flytipping","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-sicily","14":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}