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

>
>"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.
>

My sidewalk is public access on private property and I am responsible
for the upkeep. I can be told by the city to replace or repair the
sidewalk for whatever minute reason and I can be sued by John Q Public
if someone slips or falls in front of my house. My sidewalk is NOT
municipal property and nothing placed on it is put out for public
consumption unless I have a sign on it stating otherwise.

Send me your addresses and I'll redirect anyone rummaging through my
bins over to your homes. it's a win-win situation.

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