Woman 'heaves food waste' from 16th floor, damaging cars

Police in Ahnsung, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday indicted a woman for allegedly throwing food waste from her 16-floor apartment because it was “too much trouble to go down to the first floor.”

Police said the woman, 72, identified by her surname Park, committed the offences between September and December last year, mostly late at night. The falling trash caused 13 million won ($11,815) worth of damage to the windows and sunroofs of four cars.

Police used barcodes on packaging to find the grocery store where the woman shopped, and eventually the woman herself.

“It was too much trouble to go down to the first floor to throw away the garbage,” Park allegedly told police.