Stealing TRASH illegal.

**The Manalishi** · 02-01-2011, 11:11 AM

I get the secondary complaint that they sometimes steal real property, but making it illegal to dig through trash sounds ridiculous.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,1350144.story

**67CamaroRSSS** · 02-01-2011, 11:26 AM

Dumpster diving is a competitive sport in the Greater Los Angeles (this includes The OC) area...

**Aetos** · 02-01-2011, 11:30 AM

I guess one man's trash is no longer another man's treasure...

**Spaz** · 02-01-2011, 11:50 AM

i dunno... i don't think i want someone going through my trash... making a mess and what not...

**The Manalishi** · 02-01-2011, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Spaz

i dunno... i don't think i want someone going through my trash... making a mess and what not...

That would be covered by the littering ordnance they surely have. I just think its a waste of time for law enforcement to have to deal with this kind of crap.

**korndawg** · 02-01-2011, 11:54 AM

Why would u wanna do that in the first place?

**Spaz** · 02-01-2011, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by korndawg

Why would u wanna do that in the first place?

most easy way of identity theft...

**The Manalishi** · 02-01-2011, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Spaz

most easy way of identity theft...

Didn't think about that one, since anything that could identifiy me gets shredded. I was thinking along the lines of homeless people digging for stuff.

**KahanaReef** · 02-01-2011, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by 67CamaroRSSS

Dumpster diving is a competitive sport in the Greater Los Angeles (this includes The OC) area...

I had bags and boxes of donations out for the Vietnam Vets to pick up and I go outside and there is this Mexican woman going through the boxes and bags just taking what she wanted. Mind you, this was all in my driveway up against my garage door. Not out in the street

**Schmalgar** · 02-01-2011, 12:21 PM

If police can search through your garbage without a warrant, because it's deemed discarded and no longer your property or whatever, then I wonder about the legitimacy of this law. Someone will challenge it on these grounds I bet, or the reverse, when a cop goes through someone's garbage the person will use this as a defense...

The law was enacted in response to complaints from residents who say trash scavengers sometimes also steal bikes and other property.

So the problem isn't with the trash itself, but that these scavengers are also true thieves. So instead of just policing the true crimes that sometimes happen in conjunction with this activity, they make this activity itself illegal. That's just lazy government.

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**Spaz** · 02-01-2011, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by The Manalishi

Didn't think about that one, since anything that could identifiy me gets shredded. I was thinking along the lines of homeless people digging for stuff.

yup... many people will get these credit card offers and just toss them out with out ripping/shredding them... takes just one person to fill the shit out and camp your mail box... then they have a nice new CC to go shopping with and then all of a sudden you get a bill out of no where...

**Schmalgar** · 02-01-2011, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by KahanaReef

I had bags and boxes of donations out for the Vietnam Vets to pick up and I go outside and there is this Mexican woman going through the boxes and bags just taking what she wanted. Mind you, this was all in my driveway up against my garage door. Not out in the street

Lovely. Not even trash, that's still personal property. I guess she figured if you were donating it, you could just donate some of it to her.

**KahanaReef** · 02-01-2011, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by Schmalgar

Lovely. Not even trash, that's still personal property. I guess she figured if you were donating it, you could just donate some of it to her.

The thing that really pissed me off was that she had opened the bags and boxes, that had everything washed and neatly packed and folded (as far as the clothes dontations went) and rummaged thorough them and just went to the next one leaving crap everywhere.

Then pretended she couldn't speak English when I told her she could not take anything and to get off my property. I hate when people do that...