On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:48:47 -0400, "cybercat" >
wrote:

>
>"sf" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:19:09 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>sf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:52:46 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >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.
>>>>
>>>> As far as the recyclables (paper, cans, bottles) in my City, it *is*
>>>> stealing because recycling helps keep the garbage bill down.
>>>> Sometimes our rate is lowered for a month because they got enough
>>>> recycling the month before to give us that break.
>>>
>>>That's what was claimed by the recyclers in Berkeley
>>>when Eldridge Cleaver was arrested for "stealing" cans
>>>left out for recycling, but a judge found him innocent.
>>
>> If they want to pay me $20 a month, they can rummage. Otherwise leave
>> my garbage alone.
>>
>I don't understand this. Honestly.
>
Eldridge somehow got off. He probably wouldn't today.

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