Talk about getting down and dirty.

On Friday morning, police on Vancouver Island got a call about suspicious activity in the Victoria suburb of Saanich. When an officer arrived on the scene, he discovered a man and woman having sex in a dumpster.

"It's 1:45 a.m. so it's dark and he called out to the people in the dumpster and didn't get any response," said Saanich Police Sgt. John Price.

"So he went over there with his flashlight and poked his head in at the bottom of the dumpster."

Inside were two people, naked and intertwined.

Police arrested the 26-year-old man, who was wanted by another police department. The 30-year-old woman was sent home.

Price says that in his decades of policing he can't remember ever hearing a story like this.