By Lizzie May For Mailonline

Published: 11:12 EDT, 1 August 2022 | Updated: 05:56 EDT, 2 August 2022

This is the dramatic moment a 'disgruntled worker' destroyed a luxury marina building as 'revenge for getting fired' in Canada.

Video footage shows someone smashing the bucket of a red digger through one side of the navy blue, red and white Pride Marine Group building which sits on the Pride of Rosseau Marina, in the Muskoka Lakes, in Ontario.

A 59-year-old man, who is understood to be a former employee on the property, has been charged with mischief over $5,000 (£4,072) and will appear in court at a later date. He has also been issued with a $3,906 (£3,200) fine.

A local resident filmed the jaw-dropping moment on Thursday July 21, and tweeted: 'You can't make this up.'

The clip shows the red digger swinging from one side to another, knocking its dipper arm into the property, clawing through the second floor.

The digger, which looks to have completely destroyed one side of the house, has reportedly caused damage worth millions 

You can’t make this up. A disgruntled, fired employee from a marina near our lake house snapped and destroyed the entire marina with an excavator. Does anyone have more information on what happened? #Muskoka pic.twitter.com/XcCLAVBFMy

Video footage shows someone recklessly using a digger through one side of the navy blue, red and white Pride Marine Group building which sits on the Pride of Rosseau Marina, in the Muskoka Lakes, in Ontario, Canada

'A disgruntled, fired employee from a marina near our lake house snapped and destroyed the entire marina with an excavator,' said the resident before asking for more information on what might have happened. 

The Pride of Rosseau Marina hosts properties listed for over $9.8million (£8million), reports suggest, and is a hotspot for wealthy locals in Ontario as a summertime getaway spot and place to keep their expensive boats.

Owner of marina operator SWS Muskoka, Geordie Newlands, said that strains of the pandemic had meant that local companies had been forced to make redundancies.

A 59-year-old man, who is understood to be a former employee on the property, has been charged with mischief in relation to the incident and will appear in court at a later date. He has also been issued with a $3,906 (£3,200) fine

'Luckily nobody got hurt, which is a good thing,' he told the Calgary Herald.

'It was almost surreal what happened. For something like that to happen... it's almost like fiction. 

'It's a small community up here and it's pretty devastating.'

The footage has been widely viewed online, racking up over 275,000 views on Twitter, over 5,000 likes and more than 1,100 retweets and quote tweets. 

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