In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> 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.

It's stealing. Look for higher garbage rates if it doesn't stop.

> Counterintuitive, IMHO, but the City council insists that it will
> keep the "undesirables" out of residential neighborhoods.

I have had the homeless steal my newspapers. I don't think they were
going to read them, but rather, sleep on them. I have had people steal
aluminum cans. I have tried to tell my son to bring in the beer cans
when he was done. I have found the local old lady in my back yard,
harvesting cans.

> 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?

Of course they are. I like them, but it is something to think about.

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

Something else to think about. They provide a valuable service, but
they are still competition.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA