Stealing Garbage?
 

I know it is garbage, but someone took one of the boxes from our curb, and re-arranged the remaining recycling into the trash. I live in a gated community.

My wife thinks it is someone from outside the neighborhood or kids. If it were either of those, they would have dumped the packing material in the box on the ground, not put most of it in my trash can. Some of the items were put into other boxes for the recycling.

We don't normally put our trash out the night before, but the trash service is coming extra early due to excessive heat. I put the trash out around 8-9PM. So it happened between 9PM and 6AM.

If you need a box, ask. Taking one of our boxes and re-arranging our trash in the middle of the night is very weird!

Likely someone looking for personal information. Old checks, or insurance forms, car registration info, and so on. Likely you are smart enough to shred any of that, but the bad guys don't know that up front.

I shred anything with even a little personal information, even the name of my insurance companies, or bank information. Then we put the shredded documents into our compost, and stir. It turns into soil forthwith. And even right after it is put in it is covered and mixed with compost and not even the CIA is going to put it together. We mostly compost it because the master gardener wife wants the paper in there as a balance to the grass and leaves.

I burn all of mine in the backyard fire pit

Sounds like the feds are on to you 😁

I live in a gated community and they nicely re-arranged the recycling that was in the box. They took "recycling" not actual garbage.

That's some serious OCD!

Weird old person.

Looking for dirt on you R-B, after all you did announce your candidacy....

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I wish they would nicely re arrange my recycling when they search for the bottles and cans. I have received a couple of tickets for the mess they make when searching through the garbage and mixing the garbage together.

I had garbage stolen while participating in a lawsuit.
(Quite a few very odd things happened actually.)

Good reminder to shred anything with personal information:
-A lot of personal information can be found through public records anyways. Social media fills in the gaps.

-Universal Product Codes might be used to con customer service and access your accounts. idk.

-"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

That was my first thought.

Are you a "person of interest" in any investigations, James? :D

Not gated but nearby and there are a few Fred Sanford type trucks that circulated through the neighborhood on heavy traSH and recycling days. They will take what they find valuable. Some of my neighbors get red assed about it but I don't see the harm. I was taken aback at first but have observed them many times as I leave for work. I believe they are after metal mostly.

they took a cardboard box??

someone "needs" to move and is hard up - maybe connected with the atty who killed Epstein's judge?

At work, we have those types picking through the dumpsters. I don't care. But this had to be a neighbor.

They took a box full of recyclables and emptied it into my regular trash can. In California, I'd be written a ticket for something like this. My giant (bigger than my trash can) recycle bin was half empty. The boxes were shipments with the remaining packing material inside.

It is weird. It is not a garbage picker. It is a neighbor. We have LOTS of people complaining about the dog people leaving dog crap in random trash cans.

First World problems....

I want to speak to the manager

O.K. Karen....

I believe what Tony actually said was........cock-a-roaches...

Sounds like it is time to put a security camera pointed at the trash in place. Then you will know just who it was.

maybe keep an eye on your new a/c units - who knows what the neighbor may want next

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The jerkoff who took my box, he filled my regular trash with recyclable material. Regular trash pickup didn't take my trash

I take peoples boxes from their garbage all the time. Selling stuff online you need boxes. If its at the curb its considered abandoned property that anyone can claim. If I see something good in your trash can you can be damn sure im going to take it. And likely sell it in the box I stole from you. If its so precious to you dont throw it out

On hold with the Trash Company...

post on the neighborhood facebook page. I bet someone has them on camera.

what are your neighbors like?

any senile dementia? (I have one old lady who seems to fit that bill)

then, there's kids...

Your garbage men won't take the garbage if there's recyclable materials in it? Wow, that's hard core. Especially since most of the crap isn't actually recycled anyway.

Otherwise, if it was someone just stealing your trash, as soon as you put your trash out, it's essentially like "free, take whatever you want." It's not like the feds have a law against taking garbage.

That was my first thought as well.

I really don't care if someone needs a box. But the box remover did it after dark and before first light. That is weird. Again, gated community, so not a "garbage picker".

And in the process of "adjusting" my recyclables, they made my garbage men THINK the bin was full of recyclables. So they skipped it.

U.S. v. Redmon, No. 96-3361, 7th Cir., March 10, 1998.

Are you a Troll? We are talking about someone effing up my garbage collection!!! :eek:

Well, you didn't put it out till it was dark. How are they supposed to take it in daylight?
Sorry they miscatagorized the remains but if I needed a box to ship or move something, I'd go to someones discard pile as well. After all, the best form of recycling is reuse.

A ha! I was wondering why the box my rear valance came in smelled like pizza! :D

You didn't even catch the tape though.

It could be as simple as them needing a cardboard box for stuff, and yours happened to be the perfect box they needed.
"There is one on the curb"
"I'll pour the rest into this bin"

Yep.

Either that or trash people :D

I'm surprised no one has suspected the raccoons yet....

Rocky would have left a mess.

Now a CAT, maybe...

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I admit it I did it.

My FIL watched over our house while we were out of town several years ago. During the week, he called concerned. "Someone broke into your house and took a dump in the toilet"

Ok- how do you know? We asked.
Well- I used the bathroom on monday (toilet was clean), and when I went back to use the bathroom again on friday, there was a turd in the toilet.

Police are on the lookout for a local crapper. mo- breaks into houses, takes a dump, steals nothing, and runs.

My guess- the toilet handle needs to be held down all the way for a full flush.

The local crapper "on the loose" makes a better story though.

Which reminds me of a story when I was on the inside...the Porter frantically calls me over takes me into the Gents room and points into the toilette where this perfectly formed 12 inch turd is floating in the bowl...he is jibber jabbing on about me doing it...I tell him unfortunately no, you have the wrong culprit....it was a thing of beauty though. It turns out that a young inmate by the name of Bates did the deed where he said, "That he was so proud of his achievment he couldn't bear to flush it."