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Panhandling for Tom Brady
By adamg on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 9:41am
The Herald has today's top bizarro story about a guy panhandling to raise enough money to repay the Patriots quarterback for a couple of flowerpots he was convicted of stealing from one of Brady's pied a terres. Guy claims the flowerpots were in the trash; DA and the judge said otherwise.
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$8,000 planters and the
$8,000 planters and the delivery men left them in a back ally on trash day? Huh
Aggressive Trashpickers
I think we should pay this guy to go out and lecture his brethren on trash day about where the line is drawn. I have some experiences with this that make me highly skeptical that he "just didn't know". He probably knew they were on somebody's property and were possibly not trash. He got distracted by dollar signs and rationalizations and probably didn't think he would get caught.
Last fall, our area was innundated with guys with trucks on weekends and trash day nights/mornings, and I caught one getting out and heading for a bunch of bikes that were in front of my house but still on my property. I had to threaten to call police when he started arguing with me, and I did report his plate and his truck via our cop neighbor. Seriously dude - BACK OFF. This was NOT TRASH DAY and there was no garbage out front. He knew goddamn well that a bunch of neatly parked bikes in a driveway on a Saturday were not trash and taking them would be theft, but he clearly considered it a good cover for grand larceny. Asshole.
When we remodeled our kitchen the winter before, we cut some pipe from the walls, some of it copper. When I put it out front with the trash the night before pick up, I made sure it was easy to get to. It was gone before I left for work. For the trashpickers, that "find" was clearly in-bounds. Most people in our neighborhood will put out the useful stuff so that it is easy to take and mark it as being fair game.
The people in my area have
The people in my area have been burned many times by trash pickers that leave a big mess behind. Its a low income area so it is not like the stuff that goes out is all that great anyway but nobody wants to see their garbage strewn about. With that in mind Ive seen on more then one occasion a neighbor ask everyone he knows if they wanted a particular piece of furniture and when everyone says no he puts it out on the sidewalk and proceeds to damage it to the point of uselessness. Ive seen this from others as well, it seems to keep garbage groupies at bay as nothing ever seems to make it to the curb in one piece.
An alternative strategy
In Eastern-ish Cambridge, people have a practice of setting useful (and non-useful) things beside the trash barrels/bags. And containers with deposits are in the open recycling bins. Nobody goes into the barrels or bags.
Hey it's not my practice, Im
Hey it's not my practice, Im just reporting lol
I was just thinking on the level of communities
Not meaning to badger individuals.
copper pipes?
Swirrly you should have called someone to come pick those up and at least you could have gotten a cut. I hope some scumbag thief trashpicker didnt profit off that stuff you put out.
Wasn't enough to bother with
Believe me, I'm wayyy too cheap not to check into it! It would be in the minivan and headed to Everett.
We had several pipes that we cut when we moved the door to the kitchen - they were part of an antiquated and unused hot water system dating from the time the house was built (it was probably a side-piece run off the original oil-burning stove system). Our plumber took the best stuff for a credit. What was left was some battered stuff that didn't amount to much weight and a couple of cast iron pipes as well.
I don't mind if a trashpicker takes something that is with the garbage and clearly labeled as a discard. I don't mind if people make money off of trashpicking, either.
Ok I hear ya.
I used to live in a neighborhood where the can pickers would wake me up on reclycing day. It was annoying to say the least.