On Aug 3, 12:24*am, Dan Abel > wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
>

Here, if there is waste in a can, at the curb, ready for pickup,
anyone can have what they want -- it's not stealing, once it's
discarded. Lots of "curb treasure" gets recycled this way in this
college town. I know if I don't want an old but o.k. coffee table or
an old dinette set, or a baby crib, I can put it on the curb the day
before scheduled garbage pickup and someone will take it and use it.
That's much better than adding to what goes to the dump, or me having
to pay the city to pick it up because it doesn't fit in their waste
cans.

N.