On Aug 13, 7:33*pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> 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.

Those who steal recyclables are becoming territorial in my
neighborhood. A big Dodge caravan drives up completely empty on the
night before the recyclables are to be picked up by the city. Each
week, the same couple canvasses the neighborhood streets and about an
hour and a half later, they drive off with their van completely
loaded. It's a racket. I do not believe they're as needy as some but
others in need will cross the street to avoid a confrontation with
this couple.

The system doesn't work and it doesn't help those in need. The police
really don't do anything about it, so it continues. Our cities are
cutting budgets right and left, and programs that are there to help
shape the facilitation of recycling the materials and having those
efforts go back into the future of recycling more for us will be
impacted to the point of potentially being discontinued.

Karen