Clean-Up Creep: Local Man Outs Himself as Serial Suburban Dumper in Exclusive Tell-All

Sandy Shores | Editor in Chief | Sutherland Shire Gazette

16 April 2025

GYMEA BAY  — In a Sutherland Shire Gazette exclusive, local resident Brett “The Stacker” McNulty, 47, has finally come clean about his years-long obsession with offloading his household junk during other people’s council clean-ups - all without ever booking one of his own.

“I haven’t used a single official clean-up in over a decade,” McNulty confessed, sipping a Dare iced coffee on his driveway in Gymea Bay. “Why would I? I live on the edge. I live… off-grid. In a grid.”

McNulty has become infamous in multiple suburbs for his stealthy, moonlit missions - lugging mismatched furniture and defunct appliances from the boot of his Subaru Outback and artistically rearranging them into neighbouring street piles. He even claims to have a mental map of all scheduled clean-ups between Taren Point and Engadine, colour-coded by "vibe."

“It’s not dumping. It’s a redistribution of clutter,” he explained. “Some people golf. I curate verge art.”

Neighbours, however, aren’t as inspired. One described the weekly reshuffling of piles as “domestic graffiti, but with broken fans and VHS copies of Speed 2: Cruise Control.”

Council compliance officers reportedly suspect McNulty’s activity but have yet to catch him in the act. He remains unconcerned. “They can’t stop me,” he smirked. “I know the loopholes. I am the loophole.”

Asked why he doesn’t just use his own two free collections per year, McNulty was defiant: “That’s for amateurs. I’m a clean-up connoisseur. Plus, I don’t like paperwork.”

Locals are encouraged to report rogue clean-up contributions, though McNulty says they’ll never find him. “I’m like the Tooth Fairy - but for broken kettles.”

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