On Aug 9, 8:24*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:38:22 -0700, sf > fired up
> random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
> >and you didn't whip out your PDA? *What restraint! *
>
> You'll get a ticket in California for using your PDA while driving -
> in my case, using my iPhone, that is, although I've seen a cop on his
> cell phone while he was driving.
>
> In an earlier post in the thread about homeless people rummaging
> in recycling bins set out for collection,

The local reason for not allowing people to rummage in the recycling
bins is that the state makes money from the recyclables, so if it's in
an official state bin, (or city, or town or whatever) it is gumment
property and if you take it, you are a thief!

You're also a criminal if you take a deposit bottle from your recycle-
only state and return it for the nickel in the next state over.

I have never seen them enforcing that law for the trash part of the
trash. People come by and take lawn mowers, tvs, couches, and whole
house furnishings in college neighborhoods in May....