Someone down the street from me just got evicted!

[Conquest10]

And the homeless would probably beg a little less. (maybe not :/ )

Nope. We got the same thing here and the homeless still beg for more than a dollar.

[Doramius]

Hand them a bag full of cans. It'll save you a trip to return them and you'd probably only get a dollar. :/

[Conquest10]

Looks like trash to me. Being at the curb and all. I would take anything you wanted. Looks like trash. I dont think you would get arrested for taking it even if caught.

Why would you put trash on the curb?

[Guest]

where do you put it?

[Conquest10]

In the trash receptacle out back.

[Guest]

City= out back in the alley
suburbs= at the front curb due to lack of alleys

[smearbrick1]

Again, Back in NY there is a $.05 deposit on all soft drink & alcoholic beverage cans & bottles. The recycling program will pick them up, but most people won't chuck them away. People usually store them in a separate can and return them for the cash. If people do throw them away, transients will come and pick them out for the cash. It's actually quite good because you rarely see broken beer bottles or crushed plastic soda bottles, or flattened soda cans out in the street or strewn all over the place. Recycling was a city paid program. In Las Vegas, it's not required, and you have to pay for it if you want to have it done. :scratch: that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But it's mostly due to the unions. Trash isn't even a city paid program. You either pick your garbage pick-up company or you take it directly to the dumping station. Either way you have to pay out of pocket, rather than through taxes. In figuring out the cost, it was so much cheaper back east through taxes, and you had less people storing their garbage in their houses for 2 years.

-Big thing in the news recently where a guy who didn't want to pay for garbage stored all his garbage in bags in his garage. Odors started coming out of the garage pretty strong recently and the police came with a search warrant and found 3-4 tons of garbage being stored on premises.-

Some places have local laws that prohibit throwing peoples property out on the street like that or it is considered junk. Usually there's a storage requirement for a period of time, just as explained in different posts above, before you can just throw it on the street. You town or city may not have these such laws. But abandonment of property certainly would allow you to sift through whatever you want. Just make sure you have gloves and clean it properly before you bring it on your own property. :x

That's usually what it looks like out here when a guy gets thrown out of his house by his wife/girlfriend.

3-4 tons... chicken feed. About a year ago a couple was booted from their home (prior to this their kids were taken by social services - This is a whole other story). They lived in a 2 story house complete with full attic and basement. Apparently they weren't real thrilled with the cost of garbage disposal so they filled the attic first, then moved on to the second floor, and first... so on. When Social Services took the kids, the people were living in the basement. You could no longer get up the stairs to the second floor nor could you see the kitchen. It took several of the trailer sized dumpsters to remove all of the trash... 15 tons in all. The seapage from the bags was so bad that the entire house has to be gutted.

Next time you think your house is a little cluttered, think of these people.

I wish I had pictures.

[Guest]

Again, Back in NY there is a $.05 deposit on all soft drink & alcoholic beverage cans & bottles. The recycling program will pick them up, but most people won't chuck them away. People usually store them in a separate can and return them for the cash. If people do throw them away, transients will come and pick them out for the cash. It's actually quite good because you rarely see broken beer bottles or crushed plastic soda bottles, or flattened soda cans out in the street or strewn all over the place. Recycling was a city paid program. In Las Vegas, it's not required, and you have to pay for it if you want to have it done. that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But it's mostly due to the unions. Trash isn't even a city paid program. You either pick your garbage pick-up company or you take it directly to the dumping station. Either way you have to pay out of pocket, rather than through taxes. In figuring out the cost, it was so much cheaper back east through taxes, and you had less people storing their garbage in their houses for 2 years.

-Big thing in the news recently where a guy who didn't want to pay for garbage stored all his garbage in bags in his garage. Odors started coming out of the garage pretty strong recently and the police came with a search warrant and found 3-4 tons of garbage being stored on premises.-

Some places have local laws that prohibit throwing peoples property out on the street like that or it is considered junk. Usually there's a storage requirement for a period of time, just as explained in different posts above, before you can just throw it on the street. You town or city may not have these such laws. But abandonment of property certainly would allow you to sift through whatever you want. Just make sure you have gloves and clean it properly before you bring it on your own property.

That's usually what it looks like out here when a guy gets thrown out of his house by his wife/girlfriend.

3-4 tons... chicken feed. About a year ago a couple was booted from their home (prior to this their kids were taken by social services - This is a whole other story). They lived in a 2 story house complete with full attic and basement. Apparently they weren't real thrilled with the cost of garbage disposal so they filled the attic first, then moved on to the second floor, and first... so on. When Social Services took the kids, the people were living in the basement. You could no longer get up the stairs to the second floor nor could you see the kitchen. It took several of the trailer sized dumpsters to remove all of the trash... 15 tons in all. The seapage from the bags was so bad that the entire house has to be gutted.

Next time you think your house is a little cluttered, think of these people.

I wish I had pictures.

Amazing what filth people can stand. I was always amazed at the garbage plumes extending down the hill from front doors in Appalacia

[smearbrick1]

Amazing what filth people can stand. I was always amazed at the garbage plumes extending down the hill from front doors in Appalacia :cry:

These are the same people that usually have 5 or 6 classic muscle cars sitting on the front lawn turning to rust piles that they won't sell because "they are going to fix them up."

[AlecWest]

Each state has laws that govern this stuff.

Yes ... and woe be to the landlord who doesn't adhere to those laws. A few years ago, a single-mom lost her job and fell behind in her rent. So, the landlord did pretty much what is pictured in those photos. It became a media event in the local area. As such, the media did some investigation and found that the landlord, while he could do this, did it too soon. A contingency attorney took the woman's case, sued, and got a substantial cash settlement. After the suit was settled, the property management firm fired the landlord and gave him his own eviction notice.

P.S. FWIW, while this was never substantiated, the single-mom complicated matters by suggesting that the landlord had offered her a solution ... involving sex-for-rent. Two other female tenants still there chimed in, saying they received similar offers. That, coupled with him putting the property out on the sidewalk a few days before the law allowed him to do so, coupled with media sympathy for a homeless single-mom, was like an unstoppable juggernaut ... and was the reason her cash settlement was so high (though the exact settlement amount remained undisclosed). If the landlord had just waited a few more days, the "legal" end of the woman's eviction would have been satisfied. But the woman suggested her refusal of the landlord's questionable offer preceded the dumping of her property on the sidewalk almost immediately.

[Guest]

Amazing what filth people can stand. I was always amazed at the garbage plumes extending down the hill from front doors in Appalacia

These are the same people that usually have 5 or 6 classic muscle cars sitting on the front lawn turning to rust piles that they won't sell because "they are going to fix them up."

yeah, but what about the refridgerators?

[Doramius]

As long as the doors are off, I guess it's okay.... hrug: :P

[MackemX]

City= out back in the alley
suburbs= at the front curb due to lack of alleys

what about people who live in the sticks?

[Guest]

usually a dump/landfill. self serve.

[MackemX]

usually a dump/landfill. self serve.

why does that remind me of the Simpsons episode when Homer is the Garbage King?

[Guest]

www.bandbstudios.com/postcards.html

[Doramius]

In the more rural areas of Upstate NY the town usually gives you a large dumpster. You usually had pickup once or twice a month.

Here in Nevada, you basically bring it to the dump yourself or you go 30 miles up highway 95, then drive it offroad for 15 minutes and dump it. Always do it during broad daylight because it's easier to see patrol aircraft. Or pay a mexican $10-20 to dispose of it somewhere you don't want to know.

Not trying to be racial, but it's an actual occurance here. There are illegal immigrants who will gladly accept $10-$20 to run garbage to an unknown destination and drop it. So sad, but true.

[ZAPPER]

Off on a tangent....

I live in the sticks (sort of) I pay for a trash pick up.

And for the folks that dump illegally, Shame on you. I hope the law catches everyone of them and gives them a year of picking up trash from along side the road and then another year sorting trash at the landfill.

...and you can get anything you want, at Alices' restruant, do-n-do-do-doo

[Doramius]

I just want to know one thing about garbage pick-up from Canadians........ How the hell do you keep the place so clean? Is there like public flogging for literers? Do they torture people who do not properly dispose of garbage? DO you have subliminal messages in your television viewing? ["Stash trash, in a can, man!"] Have you all figured something out in genetics regarding this? Have you figured out the ultimate challenge?.... You got the woman to actually take it out of the house? WTF? SOme of the areas in Toronto are cleaner than my dinner plates after going through the dishwasher 3 times over.