On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:33:28 -0400, "cybercat" > wrote:

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-->"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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-->>
-->> "Charlotte L. Blackmer" > wrote in message
-->>>>> All well and good, but she wouldn't be pleased if someone decided to
-->>>>> steal from her. What I'm talking about is flat out stealing. If
-->>>>> someone wants to paint it with a different brush, that's their
-->>>>> problem.
-->>>>
-->>>>they're 'stealing' something *you've already thrown away*.
-->>>
-->>> *BING* *BING* *BING*
-->>>
-->>> and have placed on PUBLIC PROPERTY, i.e., the sidewalk/curb.
-->>>
-->>> Now if they take the recycling bin along with it ... THAT's stealing.
-->>
-->> Your opinion does not matter. Ask your town attorney what the law is.
-->Do you admire this kind of petty nitpicking semantics game? As though there
-->are no stupid laws. I don't give a fat, selfish, smug suburbanite's ass WHAT
-->the law is, it is utterly petty and miserably small and uncaring to begrudge
-->the poor or needy your refuse. And yes you bet I am talking about YOU, sf.
-->If there is a law against them picking things up that are in containers
-->marked for disposal, it is a law designed to keep the riff raff out of the
-->fat ****ing smug suburban bitches' sight.
-->
-->Charlotte's point was not "what the law is." She is a bigger person than
-->that. She was talking about a caring, rational person's reasonable
-->definition of stealing, not that of a mindless penny ante bureaucracy
-->catering to fatass suburban twits who actually begrudge the needy their
-->castoff.
-->
-->Ugh. I said UGH. bleah. *shiver*
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