On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Karen > wrote:

-->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.

So talk to your neighbours and get all of them to put the recyclables out early
in the morning of collection, this will put a stop to the Dodge van people
(they usually don't like daylight).