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04/01/10, 07:03 PM
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What do you look for when staking out a dumpster?
Surely you've done it. Whatever the case may be, there was and always is something that needs to be taken to a dumpster. Some businesses have their dumpsters locked up or enclosed, but there are still plenty of others available for "public use."
So what do you look for when you perform this alleged criminal activity - certain type of businesses? Apartment complexes? Cameras? Specific time of day or night?
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04/01/10, 08:56 PM
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Last time I did, it was behind a school - no one there after 5:00 or so......
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04/02/10, 06:20 AM
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Wow, I've never done that. I have just always hauled my old stuff to the Dump and paid what they were asking for the whole load. It just seemed like the right way to do things, to me. Whatever, wherever, I guess.
I'm just saying
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04/02/10, 06:30 AM
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I wouldn't unless you ask somebody around. I've scavenged construction dumpters after asking the site foreman. Back when we lived in a condo, I found a guy scavenging the condo dumpter (opening bags of trash and looking through mail - presumably for CC information) - the guy ran as soon as I went outside - I wound up following him to get his license plate number and reporting him to the police. So, even if you're looking for harmless items, best to let folks around know what you're up to.
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04/02/10, 07:32 AM
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And if you don't find a 'freebie' dumpster, will you then take your trash out on the country road behind my house and dump it there???
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04/02/10, 08:12 AM
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the hubby likes to hit the Aldi dumpster to look for bananas....
where is that puking emoticon......
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04/02/10, 09:01 AM
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I've done the opposite, while helping Mom clean out her garage to sell her country home, where she paid bythe bag for garbage and everyone had a compost pile & burn barrel. I brought a small truckload of stuff home to my apartment dumpster every trip.
I also bring home the trash bags from deer camp & butchered deer carcases too...usually empty those at night just so I don't gross out the squeemish neighbors.
I'm sure after some of my loads from Mom's that the trash truck driver was startled by the impact as he dumped the front loader...and I took all the metal to the scrap yard!
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04/02/10, 09:08 AM
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Not sure what the OP is staking out dumpsters for...but the good side of me wants to think he/she is looking to glean usable items that someone has tossed.
I don't know for sure...but it's unlikely that they are seeking to toss their own garbage.
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04/02/10, 09:13 AM
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but it's unlikely that they are seeking to toss their own garbage
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That's exactly what he wants to do
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something that needs to be taken to a dumpster
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Wow, when I first saw the thread I thought it was going to be 'what do you TAKE from a dumpster' instead of 'do you illegally dump your stuff in someone else's'. We have taken things FROM a dumpster, after asking permission, but we take our stuff out to the dump/land fill and pay our fees. One time when we moved, we paid for a dumpster to be dropped off and it was filled by the neighbors before we could even get our own stuff in there. That made our expenses double!! Sure made me all sorts of ----ed off! -Catherine
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04/02/10, 09:15 AM
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Wow. I thought by the tread title that it was naturally referring to staking out dumpster to watch for cool stuff to take home.
It never even occurred to me to stake out a dumpster to illegally dump my trash.
If it is the OP is regarding my initiall thought, I watch for anything and everything that I think I could use either now or in the future.
If it is regarding illegal dumping of your own trash, shame on you.
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04/02/10, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by geo in mi
And if you don't find a 'freebie' dumpster, will you then take your trash out on the country road behind my house and dump it there???
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I told my husband that I was considering putting a 55 gal barrel out by the road hoping that the dumpers would put their beer cans there instead of the ground/creek. He said not to do it because I'd go out there and there would be an old refrigerator sitting by my barrel! 
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04/02/10, 09:30 AM
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Twice in the last year some local deadbeats have cut the lock from our clinic dumpster so they could fill it up with there own trash. If you can haul it to someones dumpster, you can haul it to the dump. Pay for your own waste disposal.
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04/02/10, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Wis Bang 2
I've done the opposite, while helping Mom clean out her garage to sell her country home, where she paid bythe bag for garbage and everyone had a compost pile & burn barrel. I brought a small truckload of stuff home to my apartment dumpster every trip.
I also bring home the trash bags from deer camp & butchered deer carcases too...usually empty those at night just so I don't gross out the squeemish neighbors.
I'm sure after some of my loads from Mom's that the trash truck driver was startled by the impact as he dumped the front loader...and I took all the metal to the scrap yard!
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AAAAAH! It's YOU! Holy cannoli, we had a massive hooplah at an apartment complex many, many years ago where I used to live; the news was there, tv cameras, the cops, everything! "Someone" had been murdered, cut up, and dumped in our dumpster........  
Lots of finger pointing and media apologies, that day....... 
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04/02/10, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by SueMc
I told my husband that I was considering putting a 55 gal barrel out by the road hoping that the dumpers would put their beer cans there instead of the ground/creek. He said not to do it because I'd go out there and there would be an old refrigerator sitting by my barrel! |
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04/02/10, 09:39 AM
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As someone who has had a problem with people dumping their trash in the dumpsters on properties that I take care of I am going to tell you to not do it. I have gone through the trouble of installing cameras for mine since I have been fined by the trash company for illegal items in my containers. I have called the police, and we have prosicuted folks for dumping. YOUR TRASH IS YOUR RESPOSIBILITY, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S!!!!!!!
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04/02/10, 10:00 AM
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My daughter takes her old carpet and things like that to her work dumpster. I have taken stuff to trash cans at a state park near me, just small stuff tho.
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04/02/10, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by springvalley
Wow, when I first saw the thread I thought it was going to be 'what do you TAKE from a dumpster' instead of 'do you illegally dump your stuff in someone else's'. We have taken things FROM a dumpster, after asking permission, but we take our stuff out to the dump/land fill and pay our fees. One time when we moved, we paid for a dumpster to be dropped off and it was filled by the neighbors before we could even get our own stuff in there. That made our expenses double!! Sure made me all sorts of ----ed off! -Catherine
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I would have gone through it until I found a name and address then I would haul it all over and dump it in their front lawn.
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04/02/10, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by John_Yurich
Surely you've done it. Whatever the case may be, there was and always is something that needs to be taken to a dumpster. Some businesses have their dumpsters locked up or enclosed, but there are still plenty of others available for "public use."
So what do you look for when you perform this alleged criminal activity - certain type of businesses? Apartment complexes? Cameras? Specific time of day or night?
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What you ask for, are "Trade Secrets". There should be a fee for this kind of information. Perhaps we can negotiate. 
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04/02/10, 10:19 AM
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FLY TIPPING is illegal
This is what the British call it- tipping (disposing of trash) on the fly (on the run). When we first saw NO FLY TIPPING signs we were thinking of cow tipping and were really confused until we saw all such signs were near dumpsters or vacant lots.
Pay for your own garbage disposal or process it all at home. Anyone with a dumpster has gotten the proper size- and paid for that size- for their needs and you cost them money and or trouble when you steal garbage disposal from them. And the deadbeats on my road who refuse to pay the $9 a month garbage fee but put their garbage over with the neighbors every week- YOU are the reason they will have to raise my bill to $10 then $12 a month.
I clean my car out on roadtrips and use the hotel or gas station trash cans and just today put a coffee cup I'd had my tea in, in the gas station trash can- and felt guilty because I was walking today but okay since I often buy gas at this place.
Carry your trash in to work or a rest stop? Shame on you!
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