The binman lost his job after being caught kicking the snowman on CCTV
A petition calling for a binman to be given his job back after being sacked for kicking the head off a child's snowman has now reached over a thousand signatures.
The binman, named in some reports as Callum Woodhouse, was captured on CCTV as he decapitated the snowman with a roundhouse kick in Hereford early last week, bringing the three-year-old child who helped build it to tears.
Video footage of the incident, in which Woodhouse continued to kick the snowman several more times after its head had come off, was uploaded to social media, where it quickly went viral.
In response to news of him losing his job, a
petition calling for the binman to be reinstated was launched by Tsvetan Tsvetkov on Change.org on Thursday, passing 1,000 signatures by Saturday morning.
'A binman from Hereford kicked a snowman that was already melting anyway and after a video of it went viral he got sacked,' the petition explains.
'Really!? The guy worked throughout the whole pandemic, risking his own wellbeing and that's what he gets?! And for what, a pile of snow.. grow up and give the man his job back!
'Might be you next, if you step in a puddle that might be that snowman's passed cousin and you're sacked! No income in times like this, shame on you!'
The petition is directed at Herefordshire Council, who have since released a statement explaining that the binman was not a local authority employee, but hired from an agency.
'We understand the interest in the recent news coverage,' the statement said.
'We are unable to comment as the person was employed by our waste contractor, who are handling the matter in accordance with their HR policies.'
