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I died a little inside today.
Psi:
A few years back in NZ there was someone who took a Lawn-mower from the curbside during the council inorganic collection days.
It turned out the home owner had been mowing his lawn and gone inside to get something. :-DD
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: TerraHertz on April 05, 2013, 01:12:24 am ---Every supermarket does this, everywhere, every day. While in other places people starve to death (and some here are pretty damned hungry too.) But markets can't give the food away, due to the expiry date and legal liability.
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Yes, they can give the food away, there is nothing stopping them legally, except the fear of legal liability, which is of course complete BS. If you didn't sell the product, and didn't knowingly give away poison/dangerous food, you won't be liable squat.
http://www.ozharvest.org/donatefood.asp?pageID=618
Thankfully there are companies like OzHarvest that capture that food before it's tossed out.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/waste-not-want-not-means-theres-frequently-something-to-chew-on-20120520-1yz18.html
Harvs:
--- Quote ---Oh, and I've read news stories in the US in the last year about people being arrested and charged with theft, for picking up stuff from kerbside council cleanup piles. Even one example in Australia I seem to recall.
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I remember this one, but it's a little different from what we're talking about here. Basically the council and residents got sick and tired of bogans trawling through the curbside rubbish piles and making a shitfull mess. People would stack a pile of rubbish outside their house then some bogan would rip it apart to get a sheet of rusty iron at the bottom and leave everything strune everywhere. The council "owning" everything put out was just the legal way they could stop people from doing this.
It never would have been a problem if the bogans had just a bit of curtsy and left the pile of rubbish, as a pile.
c4757p:
--- Quote from: Harvs on April 05, 2013, 03:25:20 am ---I remember this one, but it's a little different from what we're talking about here. Basically the council and residents got sick and tired of bogans trawling through the curbside rubbish piles and making a shitfull mess. People would stack a pile of rubbish outside their house then some bogan would rip it apart to get a sheet of rusty iron at the bottom and leave everything strune everywhere.
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That's what we have bears for.
Psi:
Hehe yeah, we have that problem also. (People making a mess trying to get at stuff.)
The most annoying thing is when people smashing CRT screens to get the copper yoke off and leave glass everywhere.
However its less of problem now that CRTs are disappearing.
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