India, Aug. 21 -- In a bizarre incident that has now gone viral on Reddit, a Bengaluru man was slapped with a Rs.1,000 fine after BBMP marshals tracked a garbage bag left outside his house back to him, thanks to a parcel addressed to his girlfriend found inside the trash.

The man, posting anonymously in a subreddit, narrated how the whole episode unfolded. With his roommate out of town and dry waste pickup scheduled only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, he found himself in a fix on the morning of his weekend flight back home.

Having already missed the previous pickup day, and not wanting to leave the trash inside for days, he packed the dry waste into a black garbage bag and left it neatly outside his home, assuming BBMP workers would colle...