A Twin Cities artist stepped outside his apartment last week, glanced at the roll-off dumpster on the curb, and saw there was a chopped-up car inside it.
His one-minute TikTok of the resulting standoff between a Waste Management driver and a Ford Focus has hit 4.9 million views, drawn confirmation from current and former WM employees that nobody on shift is ever taking a load that contains a gas tank, and added another entry to the list of things people are apparently disposing of by tossing them into rented dumpsters.
The video was posted on June 10, 2026, by TiceJames (@tjsol22), a muralist whose channel is mostly fine-art clips. He posted this one with the caption, “Lol seeing some wild [expletive] already in the city. #stpaul #twincitys #mimmeapolis.”
Finding A Ford Focus In A WM Dumpster
In the video, TiceJames walks up to the dumpster with the camera unsteady. “I’ve never seen a [expletive] car in a dumpster before. What the [expletive]?” he says, panning across what he can see. “There’s an engine in there. The whole thing in there? It looks like a Ford Focus or something.”
