After first checking that it wasn't a banned item customer dumped caravan in skip

A waste collector got more than he bargained for when he arrived to collect a skip and found a caravan on top of it. Driver Tyrone Covell, 43, was left thinking his colleagues had played a prank on him when he showed up to collect the overfilled bin from Newport in south Wales.



Melissa Hodges, marketing manager at hire fire GD Environmental, said it was the strangest collection the company had ever seen. “When our driver arrived to pick it up he couldn’t believe what he was seeing,” she said. “He thought we were playing a practical joke on him and was looking around in the bushes waiting for us to jump out.





“Tyrone has worked for us for years and has seen some interesting things but never anything like this.” Ms Hodges said the skip was booked by a male customer in Newport who asked for for a list of banned items before confirming his booking. “They asked about what they could and couldn’t put in the skip and I sent them over the list but of course we didn’t say you can’t put a caravan in there as it’s blatantly obvious you can’t put a caravan in a skip.



“I had to call the customer and tell them we couldn’t pick it up. I think they were just trying to push their luck. We told them to demolish the caravan and we’d come back and pick it up so that’s what they did. It wasn’t a really heavy caravan but I still have no idea how they got it up there. It was a bit of a laugh for us and our driver.”