"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message >
>>That paints a terrible mental picture. We used to get poor people going
>>through curbside trash looking for aluminum cans and they would toss
>>anything in their way onto the curb. We called them human roaches.
>
> The LA City council has been discussing putting locks on homeowners'
> recycling bins b/c of this. Personally, I think it's a petty, cruel
> move for the more affluent to lock away something that's being thrown
> out. Counterintuitive, IMHO, but the City council insists that it will
> keep the "undesirables" out of residential neighborhoods.

There is money in those bins. The town loses when the aluminum goes into
the pockets of the trash faries instead of the town coffers. I'm sure both
sides make good arguments but I never thought enough about it to take sides.



They also
> attempted to keep the taco trucks from parking for more than one hour
> in one place - claimed it hurt local restaurants. Like a taco truck is
> going to be competition for a restaurant?

Why isn't it? You are walking to a restaurant for lunch at $10 and pass a
taco truck. You decide instead to grab a $2 taco instead of patronizing the
local restaurant. Again, arguments can be made for both views but they do
take customers away from the storefronts. That is capatalism. The truck
should be licensed and paying business taxes though.


Likewise, the Santa Ana city
> council has been discussing banning the ice cream handcarts. What a
> crock.

Probably.