/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>612287
dumpster divers get shot over here, bodies are easy to dispose of, divers turn into thieves is the common understanding

>>612462
I'm glad I don't live in your libertarian utopia.

>>612473
São Paulo

I live in a fairly rural part of the USA and the what's in the dumpster is technically property of the owner of the dumpster so illegal to take from but nobody really gives a shit if you dive as long as you don't leave a mess.

>>612545
This is the laws here in ausfailia as well, but again, people who are that worried will lock their bins, others just don't care.

Same ownership laws apply to curbside rubbish collection. Sometimes people come and rage at me for going through their curbside shit (some are worried that i'll leave a mess, which I don't, but a lot of curb crawlers do), but I simply tell them by placing the items on the curb, they have relinquished ownership of the items to the council. Of course, should they wish to call the council and report theft of their property they are free to do so, my vehicle plates are clearly visible should they wish to make a note. I actually had a dude start hauling loot back onto his property because he was so butthurt, just cane back later for dat looting.

It's illegal in Scandinavia but the police don't really care.

Some people working at those recycling centers/landfills are really mad about it and some just look away - literally. I often do it in bright daylight so that my actions will be recorded on their security cameras so they can see with their own eyes that I dont steal their property, just garbage.

Once someone spotted me and followed me to my car, threatening me with stuff and whining. He saw the license plates and said that he will report me. It was not my car I was there with that day so I offered him my drivers license so he could check my real info but he didn't accept it, maybe he was just too furious to think clearly.

>>612548
I've never had any problems with curbside collection here in Brisbane. I always take things and put others out. Sometimes I even have a chat to whoever wants my crap.

>>612577
That's broadly my experience as well. We're talking about those rare kind of people who keep binoculars handy so they can watch whats happening around the street, and who leave passive aggressive letters about shit that's happening inside of other peoples properties.

> Complete fucking nutters

Hell, I got talking to a dude one day who had put a bunch of 70's era computer gear on the curb. Turns out his old man had just passed and he was cleaning out his house. Also, his old man was a HAM. A bit of sympathy and a friendly attitude saw me and my wife being allowed to wander around this guys house to make offers on anything we wanted, furniture, computer gear, test gear, the lot. We filled a ute and trailer for $400 and refurnished half out house with glorious 20's era pieces like pic related. I also picked up some Commodore PET's and a 40's era teletype and ticker tape machine. Fucking top bloke he was. Ended up taking him a case of beer after all was said and done "because clearing out a house is thirsty work".

I live in Vancouver. If you walk through back alleys you'll pass someone going through a dumpster every five minutes or less. It's really strange for me to read about dumpster diving being illegal. I'm so used to it being commonplace that it's like banning bicycles and pizza.

I rarely dive into a dumpster, but if I see something nice lying beside it or sticking out that top I'll take it. About half my furniture came from dumpsters. My best finds are a $200 aluminum bike frame, a commodore 64, and three oscilloscopes.

>>612287
/r9k/ used to be full of dumpster diving threads. the high point was someone losing their shit over people throwing away canned food. that wasnt even expired or dented in NY

Supreme court of Canada ruled a while ago (over some pot growing case in Calgary IIRC) that once something goes in your trash, it's not private anymore and anyone can dig through it. The only problems you might run into are trespassing laws if a bin is on private property and the owner wants to be a dick. Lots of people around my area (including me) put useful stuff out beside their garbage with a sign that says "WORKING", "FREE TO GOOD HOME", etc.

Also, out at the family cabin they park a giant dumpster at our end of the beach road twice a year and all the rich people throw out great stuff!

tl;dr dumpster diving is alive and well in Northern Alberta.

>>612287
whyboner.jpg

>>612689
Although I should add that I used to take electronics from the local city-sponsored E-waste facility and no-one cared, but 2 years ago they cracked down and moved all the computers and electronics inside the building where staff are monitoring them. Bogus. I got a few 3 year old computers that way. I think people thought were too slow because they were riddled with viruses and bloatware.

>>612692
when staff do not have profit sharing arrangements, staff do not give a shit about loss prevention.

Portugal here.
Stuff left at doorsteps/end of the road trash can be taken away.
Electronics have their own disposal "trash containers" and they cannot be opened up. All trash then goes to waste filter/selection/whatever center. If you are nice to people working there, you can search for valuable stuff, although it's technically illegal (trash is a lucrative thing for trash companies).

Classic dumpsters are offlimits to everyone, and recycling stations too.

Britbong here. Refuse still belongs to whoever owns the refuse container and to take it theft. Once the council collects it or it has been taken to the skip, it belongs to the council and they get very broody over it (not many people realise, but there is BIG BIG bucks in recycling and waste disposal).

>>612713
>council
>refuse
>the skip
>broody
>realise
For some reason, it's very funny to me that you announced you were British, despite how easily inferrable it was from your vocabulary.
Anywho, how would I tell if it was illegal where I live? I'm in the US, but that sounds like a state or county governed sort of thing. I know nobody cares where I live, but how could I find if it was legal or not?

Usually very poor people collect cardbox, paper and aluminium cans for recycling. Drug users too but they usually make a mess out of your trash. It's not illegal here in brazil

It's not allowed here, but in many places nobody cares.

You just have to find some spots and you're okay.


Found a model M IBM keyboard last weak, once cleaned it's as new.
Also found a sega megadrive a few months ago, it missed the alimentation, but was fully working.

>>612754
Amerifag here

>refuse
>broody
>realise

whats wrong with these, I used them commonly

>council
>the skip

would not have definitivly identified as british

kurwa xd

>>612636

That's hilarious.

And they wonder why they can't get laid...

>>612548
I've made a good couple of grand thanks to curbside collection in Perth. Go to the rich suburbs and you're bound to find a bunch of old (3-5 year) laptops. After a good clean and re-format, sell for $200-$400 each on gumtree.

Rich people are fucking wasteful as all hell.

>>612287
My buddy lives near a Saint-Viateur bagel joint. They tend to just toss em at the end of the day in big plastic bags since they go dry so fast.

Best fucking bagels in the world too.

>>612287
No i'm not allowed because i'm not a filthy hobo


Also keep in mind people are throwing it away, not giving it away, so if you steal someone out of someone's garbage you're still a thief and they have the right to protect their property and you should be convicted

>>613055
> Confirmed for both not reading the thread, and not having a clue about how the world outside mum and dad's place works..

Because if you *had* read the thread, you would see that almost globally, once your refuse is in a designated garbage receptacle, skip bin, or on the curbside, it becomes the property of the contractor or organisation responsible for the pickup.

Now fuck off and be a faggot elsewhere.

>>613062
dude. don't respond to obvious low quality trolls

>>612548
>but I simply tell them by placing the items on the curb, they have relinquished ownership of the items to the council.
Or you could try not being a complete faggot and explain you won't make a mess. If they don't want you going through their trash you can still get charged with harassment, even though the trash is legally council property.

>>613148
big problem for bakers. they toss out their dough and bread but pour soap all over it. they take the time to tie up their rubbish but assholes rip all the bags open trying to get bread. attracts pests.

>>613148
The people who are concerned for mess will say "Hey man, try not to leave too much of a mess eh?" to which i'll say "whelp, I'm after x/y/z, should I bother?". The nutters however who actively do shit like record me and my cars on their phones, come out and start trying to physically push me away, and generally fuck with my life are a totally different story, and get trolled remoselessly. Fuck them. Also, my bad for not making the distinction between the two groups clear enough.

> If they don't want you going through their trash you can still get charged with harassment, even though the trash is legally council property.
Not where I'm from cobber. After my first encounter I checked out regulations for my council area, broadly the most a home owner can do is report me to the council for removing council property, or drag shit back inside their boundries. Thats it.

>>613158
> calling people desperate/downtrodden enough to dive for food "assholes"

Lock the dumpster. I mean if you are literally dumping bags out in the open, vermin will come anyway. Soap will not deter a wild animal.

>>613168
I am the homeless person trying to steal bread. But i can see from their point of view coming to work to find a stinking bin. but ffs, I wouldnt tear every bag open looking for untainted bread if they wouldnt try to poison it all.

>>613168
>desperate/downtrodden

Let them eat cake, and ice cream.
It's sad that poor people exists. It's the invisible ones I feel most fore. There is the panhandling couple that trolls a freeway exit onto a busy street with a long light. They are always out there with this big ass cart full of shit and they have a fucking chiwawa with them that they show off and wave to the cars with, they have these folded up signs that say one thing then they open them and they say more of the message. Anyhow I don't know why but this couple makes my jimmies all rustly. I have the desire to water balloons full of piss at them. I dont know why I have these feels, I'm really not a horrible person.

>>613172

They poison it for a reason. If they throw away something that's unsafe to eat and don't make it obviously foul, some faggot like you would be able to successfully sue them for ludicrous sums of money after eating tainted "bread that they had given away".

dumpster diving is not too bad

If you want to make some serious money, it is THE best field to be in. Doctors, lawyers, and pretty much all other professions fall way behind, when it comes to making a huge fortune.

Not only is the best way to spend your time, but it also lays a firm and solid foundation for your future.

I once found a laundry bag stuffed all the way to the top with cold hard fiat currency.

There was over $500,000 dollars in german money in that bag.

I am still using the money as a nice warm pillow next to the dumpster where I found it.

>>613390
>homeless people suing anybody for eating trash
2american5me

>>613390
They poison it to be cunts. Pretty much the only thing that's not safe beyond it's used by date is meat. Bread goes stale, but is edible. Toasting will take the edge off that. Fruit and veg will be thrown when it no longer looks "fresh", but that does not mean it is inedible or will taste bad.

Thank fuck we waste all that good food. What a horrible world it would be if it were left for those who needed it instead of it being compacted.

>>613485
but you can be sued if someone gets sick from eating your trash(i know fucking stupid) so you need to lock bins and coat them in horrible tasting shit as a deterent.

>>613486
I dunno, it seems like a fucked if you do/fucked if you dont kind of thing. Unless you need to break a lock or there is specific "no trespassing" signs, it is perfectly legal (and even encouraged, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism#Legality_and_Sanitation)) to remove food for consumption.

So, do I risk being sued because someone ate (naturally) tainted food? Or do I get sued because I deliberately poisoned the food, and some poor sod gobbed it without realising?

If I were in the position, I would put a sign on the bin saying "by eating from this skip, you agree to waive your rights to sue due to illness induced from bad produce" or something to that effect. I certainly would not dump bleach over it all. Then again, I likely would not dump edible produce in the skip, I'd call the local homeless shelters and see if they wanted in ("come see me every tuesday and friday when I rotate my stock, and i'll load you up")

>>613439

Is this how people troll /diy/?


How strange

>>613490
>So, do I risk being sued because someone ate (naturally) tainted food? Or do I get sued because I deliberately poisoned the food, and some poor sod gobbed it without realising?

You let them eat the possibly spoiled food. Poisoning the food to make it inedible is asking for attempted murder/ manslaughter charges.

Also I've never been to a bakery around here that won't give you the bread at the end of the day if you nicely ask for it. They probably won't be giving you pies and eclairs but a few loaves they usually either donate or place in separate bags if they know that homeless people are around. I live in a blue state though...

>>613014
I had a relative who did this, but kept them to take data off them. Dude was a bit sketchy.

Dumpster diving is usually legal here in the US, with a few exceptions.

>>612692
>>612697
When I was in high school our computer labs got upgraded. All the old computers, monitors and peripherals were thrown out into and stacked around the dumpster behind the school. I asked the Comp Sci teacher if they were just being thrown out or if they were waiting to be picked up, he told me they were just garbage and it had been too much work for him to get that many towers and monitors into the bin when the waste company would pick it all up anyways. I drove my Jeep around to the back of the school (There is a publicly accessible roadway around the school.), loaded up 15 monitors and 15 towers to take home. Didn't bother jumping in the dumpster to grab cables or anything.
I got called to the office the next day and suspended for 2 weeks for stealing school property, they had seen me on the security cameras and recognized me/the vehicle. They wouldn't call the CS teacher to ask him what he had told me, and when I offered to bring the computers back they said they didn't want them back, but I had to be punished for my actions.

>>615444
sounds like public school.

>>615445
It was.

Addendum to that story:
It was in 2004 and during those 2 weeks was when I found 4chan. I also learned more tearing down and rebuilding those computers, trying to build a beowulf cluster than I learned the whole year in Comp Sci.

>>615444
that's fucked, you totally should've gone to the local newspaper or something

>>612287
It hasn't been legal to do ever since "Schrottplatz" became "Wertstoffhof". The city makes money off all that shit, they aren't letting you touch it. The only reason you once were allowed to dumpster dive, was because your local Wertstoffhof were cool people.

Looking to get into it this summer. My current plan:

>go to goodwill and get "dumpster clothes," probably some jeans and thin long-sleeved shirts
>grab my headlamp
>hop on my bike around midnight or so
>hit Papa John's, Dunkin' Donuts, grocery stores

amidoinitrite?

for the paste 4 years ive been going to my local town owned ewaste place and pick up computers, tvs, stereos, etc. 80% of it needs to be fixed but once i get it working its great. I have over 40 computers, and 20 flat screens. Best finds are my 56" DLP, 46" DLP, iMac 26", 2 Dell poweredge servers xeon from 2004. Its a rich town so lots of great stuff, the ewaste in the town over in a more middle class kinda place its all old keyboards and 90's computers. I myself am poor so i gain off the rich. Recently as of last month shady stuff has been going on at the ewaste place, people working not wearing the green shirt tell me i cant take anything, and copper salvagers paying employes to cut the cord off shit. I know a few people at the place and they said the place sells off anything of seeming value at the beginning of the week and the rest goes to the normal refining center. Shady right? So sense i cant take stuff and our local law allows dumpster diving and it applies to this place, plus everyone in my town is all about freegain and reuse im just going up to town hall and exposing the whole thing again (happened 2 years ago).

>>615467
OP here. The guy at my local Wertstoffhof would let me dumpster dive, but he was threatened with dismissal if he lets people pick stuff from the containers.

That's totally fucked up. I once grabbed a high-pressure cleaner from the container and it works fine to this very day.

I've had a discussion with those who pick up the containers and they told me they would let people pick whatever they wanted if it was up to them, but it's an order from the city officials.

So now I throw everything into the trashbin and don't sort it anymore. They made money from my trash sorting and are so anal when I want to pick something up. Fuck them and their attitude. I'm not playing this game.

I have a weird suspicion that someone threw a dead aborted fetus into the dumpster at my apartment complex, and I can't be sure. There was a power struggle for a few weeks between rival can/bottle collectors that eventually ended in some sort of investigation by the environmental agency locals and a militant faction of green peace was involved. It all began when a large scale music concert took place at the nature reserve park, attracting lots of young alcoholic trash to the area, where they stayed and became vagrants. Maybe this all happened in my imagination.

as a kid me and my dad would go out in his pickup, and go the same route through the neighborhoods lookin to find stuff on the side of the road. He called it Junkin'

I miss those times, he kept doing it even after I stopped going with him because of school.

As of my knowledge its legal to do, and people never really care, though when it comes to dumpsters, because of stupid laws the person in possession of a dumpster can be legally held accountable for the safety of people diving in their dumpster.

Its pretty retarded

Illinois USA

>>612689
It's great in Ontario too. I live in a city with a large college and a large university. Students throw out all kinds of perfectly good furniture at the end of a semester. You could easily furnish a small apartment with decent stuff you find on curbs near student housing.

I've heard of kids dumping all kinds of shit from perfectly good chairs/desks/bed frames, to just putting electronics out on the curb (DVD players, game consoles, TV's, laptops, etc.

I've also picked from those computer recycling bins you see in parking lots and such. Got a sweet old Model M that still worked, a four year old Asus desktop I scavenged the LG disk drive and some other misc parts from, and a buddy of mine got a perfectly working 2 year old Macbook out of one, he ended up selling the damn thing for almost a grand.

I stuck a cheap old dvd drive I had kicking around in the Asus and some RAM I traded out of it and sold it to some kid at my high school for $250.

Sold the Model M to another kid at that school for $60

also sold other machines and parts I scavenged from those bins. Working phones, working microwaves, working computers or parts.

another guy I know managed to pick an old 28 port 10/100 switch too.

Dumpster diving is alive and well in Ontario too. Especially in college towns.

>>612548
>by placing the items on the curb, they have relinquished ownership of the items to the council
the children don't count as "items", anon

bump

I used to work in a bottle collection room in a grocery store. The homeless guys would bring in 3-4 bags of cans a day, usually always courteous. Where are these niggas finding so many cans?

>>616519
>the children don't count
[citation needed]

Found some paint brushes and big pneumatic hammer chisel at a harbor freight. Also alot of scrap metal from a closed down cell phone store and some decent office supplies. Mostly just troll around for scrap metal on days before curbside trash pick up days.

There's this pizza place that went out of business a few years ago (in America) that each day would throw whole pizzas or slices that nobody bought into the dumpster in plastic bags. Homeless people started taking them that really needed the food, so the pizza place started to stomp on the pizzas and turn them into mangled mush so it was basically inedible. Personally glad they went out of business, pieces of shit.

>>612287

It is still legal here thank god.

I might try this myself. Where I live in Scarborough, Ontario; there's plenty of Asian Supermarkets that I could probly fish through. This could be interesting since I don't want to pay for food.

>>616128

London? Kitchener? Waterloo?

>>612473
get fucked. dumpsters are private property, you are tresspassing and stealing

>but muh garbage

many businesses have people they pay to sort out recyclables for the exact same reason you are diving into them. dont think you are some clever little charity case helping out your community by stealing other people's property.

>>612548
>but I simply tell them by placing the items on the curb, they have relinquished ownership of the items to the council

so you simply lie to them you disgusting little thief.

>>613062
because almost globally you are all serfs with no property rights. The real money in garbage stealing is identity theft, which most of you so called do gooders pretend isnt your real goal or even an option.

>>613168
the niggers in my area actively break locks and smash gates because they have the same selfimportant attitude that the faggot in this thread has. They think they are above the law and everyone else can go suck a dick. It's the main reason nobody cares when the 'poor' 'homeless' get shot around here.

Dumpster diving encourages vandalism and an unhealthy sense of selfimportance among a class of people who really should be more humble/careful when stealing other people's property. But because THEY have dedeem it garbage, a contradictory notion when they admit this trash has value, then its ok for them to steal. In countries that still respect private property, this mentality simply does not fly.

>>613486
Yes, maybe in USA, but certainly not anywhere else. In Finland the situation is pretty ok, police doesn't harass dumpster divers, but being on someone elses property might get you in trouble with security guards. They just usually tell you to go away.

>>616105
>Junkin'
I like that and I am now going to refer to dumpster diving as Junkin'

I used to love going to the dump with my dad and little bro. Last time I was there they hired a dump attendant who needed some elaborate convincing before he let me take a bike.

quick question, what kind of shops do you get the best stuff from, i know sporting goods shops are a gold mine and you should keep away from anywhere that makes fresh food.
anyone got any good types of shops in general to dive in

>>612473
on my property without asking?

i wont kill you.

stop posting your politics on diy....

>>615690
>Go to goodwill

fuck off, that's charity shit
go take real dumpster shit from other places

A thread full of genial discussion, suddenly this samefagging angrycunt..

>>620352
>>620353
>>620356
>>620357

..comes along to take a shit in everyones drink. Don't be mad that you got charged with trespass faggot, not our problem.

I got a really sweet chair in a back alley once, I've had it for like..13 years now I guess. Most comfortable chair in the house.

Also got a really, really, really heavy but sturdy table. This things built like a fucking tank.

A friend found 6 sets of radios, the little 16 channel 2 way ones in a dumpster behind Radio Shack. He had to pick a lock to get them, but eh. Perfectly fine, they work. He also dove into the Dollar General dumpster, got tons of stuff. Used to take it to a flea market and sell it in a booth, he'd clear 400 bucks a month doing it.

>>620460

What? I was talking about purchasing the clothes from Goodwill, not getting them out of the dumpster.

>>620353
>>620356
>>620357

>this guy

>>620361
Fin here too. From Turku. I have to disagree on the situation in Finland. Dumbster diving used to be ok, but now it's more likely that you'll read a warning close to the dumbster. Like at Nakolinna, where the fence is spraypainted: "The other guy will hit you!"

Dumbsters are locked by rule, and guards call the police to charge you from theft. Dumster diving is seen as shoplifting or theft, depending on the value of the loot.

>>620618
Fins take their dumpster security seriously. Was going to take my vacation to Finland, now, I dunno, kinda freaked out, and scared for my life.

>>616105
my nigga, Dad and I would load up on stuff from the dump too, got a lot of good metal and stuff like power washers/pushmowers. We also used to go scavenging along the railroad for coal, old spikes, and other random chunks of shit

In the US, any trash left on the street is considered abandoned property.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that police can take evidence from garbage left by the road without a warrant because the owner has abandoned it.
SCOTUS decision makes it the law of the land in all 50 states.

>>620753
CALIFORNIA v. GREENWOOD, 486 U.S. 35 (1988)

>>620753
Dumpsters are typically not located on streets, but private properties. It is unlikely you would be fined for trespassing but you still have to use caution.

NYC anon here- any cool places to check out?

TRASH HUMPERS!

seriously though. you can make a spot or stick welder from thrown out microwaves and junkyard copper cable.

>>622427

and scrap wood, and salvaged screws and a switch, and a power cord, possibly from the same microwave, some epoxy or other strong heat resistant bonding agent.

I worked at Radio Shack for a while a couple years back. Big mistake, they've all but shot the hobbyist community in favor of smartphones and the corporate culture is noxious from top to bottom.

Anyway, we had a giant box of returned items which were to be thrown away. I asked if I could pick a few out before they got tossed. Obviously not. I resolved to just get the box from the trash when they dumped it the following week. I waited, and when the coast was clear I jumped in and started collecting everything. I get out and the assistant manager is staring at me like I'm insane, doesn't say anything, just turns and goes back inside. The store manager later tells me the only reason I didn't get fired for it was because he'd have to report that the items being discarded hadn't been destroyed first which would come back on him.

I've never been so upset at a concept. Destroying hundred of dollars worth of perfectly good items just because they have no immediate way to monetize them. Christ.

>>615444
you should have asked them
if they said no you should have come back at night

>>617713
They steal them from the back of another grocery store.

>>622735
It's actually because trash collection contracts include stuff like "3rd parties can't take trash" etc. so you would need to go trough tons of paperwork for a company to gift something instead of throwing away

>dumpster diving is great :DD
>gtfo you messy thief
>LOL IM SO NICE AND CLEAN IM DOING U A SERIVE :DD
>you are full of shit and dishonest
>OH NO IM SO HONEST I ALWAYS TELL THE OWNER EVEN AT 3 AM AND MY LICENSE PLATES ARE IN FULL VIEW
>bullshit
>well its actually my friend's car, and if you continue to fuck with me i will burn your business down because im an entitled little shit who digs threw trash and thinks im better than everyone else

every single dumpster stealing thread.

>>620647
>throw bill in the trash
>immigrant/gypsy finds it
>immigrant/gypsy uses it to take out loans and apply for benefits, welfare, memberships, and then sells it to someone who goes and does the same thing, forever ruining your reputation

Yes, you can establish proof of identity and home ownership with a power bill.

>>622758
It wasn't even trash yet, they could have shipped it to a warehouse or donated it to the goodwill or sold it online as refurbished items or any number of other things. It was just in a box, everything returned to them is destroyed and discarded.

They also constantly threw out batteries, which also drove me nuts. They tell you not to throw them in the garbage for a reason.

>>623435
I've seen worse. The walmart at my uni (and probably others) literally took the rotisserie chickens at 9pm each night and threw them in the trash. I stopped the guy halfway and I'm like shit I'll take one. They made a big deal like "oh we can't do a free transaction with company merchandise" bullshit. Needless to say, the manager was cool, and did a little loophole allowing my roomies and I to pay $0.01 per chicken.

>>623448
>KFC in south Chicago, cleanest parking lot awards. when upper brass try to pry secret out of local manager after several years of spotless parking lot in shittiest area in town manager refuses. brass finally find out that manager takes all food at closing and throws it away per SOP but... and it's a big but he packed it neatly in a clean bag and carefully placed it in dumpster. he had a deal with local street peeps... clean leftovers for keeping riff-raff and shit out of his KFC parking lot... needless to say as soon as brass found out manager was fired

>>623465
Wow I believe it. Personal story:
>Guy comes into Dunkin donuts
>Closing time, he stops worker from throwing out donuts into trash
>Manager shows up, forces minimum wage worker to charge man for garbage donuts
>With a wink and a nod, worker doesn't do the sale and says man doesn't want them anymore.

>Man brings leftover donuts to homeless people in city

>>622781
>Yes, you can establish proof of identity and home ownership with a power bill.
Only in the US

I was at a loss for words when my company wanted to validate the Paypal account. We offered to fax in offical documents which prove that we exist and which are valid in front of every court.
Paypal's respone? "Nope, fax us your gas bill"

>>613439
>There was over $500,000 dollars in german money in that bag.

If you had a bagful of german dollars, it was counterfeit, you moron.

Germany has never used dollars.

>>624398

Firstly, pretty sure that story's a fake. Secondly the phrasing anon used there said he found "over $500,000 dollars in german money" not that he'd found german dollars, you idiot.

Although, Germany has used the Euro for a long time now, if it's in Deutschemarks then it's probably no use anymore. If it was in mostly German printed Euros, then anon would have just said Euros.

Ergo, he's either a liar, or his money is worthless. Also, you should learn to read properly.

>>623435
>They tell you not to throw them in the garbage for a reason

What is that reason?

>>624421
Because they're incredibly toxic?

>>624434
Who would think it's a good idea to eat a battery?

>>624436
you dense motherfucker

>>624440
I don't think it's a good idea, and neither would anyone else.

What I like about this thread is the "fuck everybody but me" attitude of the guys popping in to stir up shit and go on weirdly specific rants accusing people dumpster diving of theft.

Look, dude... (and I say "dude" because we all know it's just one guy with some kind of bizarre 2edgy4u tryhard obsession with being a toughguy shithead) most people itt and probably most people who engage in dumpster diving period are just looking for food. I agree, some probably pretty shitty life choices led them to that level of necessity, but what you're saying is that you'd rather your food waste go to a landfill than to someone who actually probably really needs it at that moment.

I really don't think you're in any kind of position whatsoever to be implying anyone else is a degenerate.

>>624436
>They also constantly threw out batteries, which also drove me nuts. They tell you not to throw them in the garbage for a reason.
>>624441
>>624444
He just can't fucking _READ_ what the fuck.

THEY ALSO THROW OUT BATTERIES. NO ONE IS EATING THE FUCKING BATTERIES, BUT THEY ARE TOXIC AND ILLEGAL TO THROW AWAY

>>620352
>>but muh garbage
no. It's garbage. end of fucking story.
Just dont throw shit out of the dumpster and make a mess

>>624460
No it's fucking not, you're full of fucking shit. Goddamnit. It's their property, and they're paying someone to sort it and recycle it so they can get the money and tax credit back for it. He's not even talking about it being out on the fucking curb.

You're talking about breaking into someone's property, and stealing something that they were planning to fucking sell. That makes you a fucking thief. Fuck you. Fucking christ. Don't lie to yourself about what you do, it causes dissonance.

>>624464
>getting this mad over trash
It's in a dumpster outside, who cares if someone grabs it?

>>624465
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE GOING TO SELL IT FOR FUCKING MONEY.

Fucking dumpster full of thousands of dollars in copper scrap, oh boy, I'll just jump in here and take it. This stupid company was just going to throw this away. No they're fucking not, they're going to recycle it too! It's valuable! They're not fucking stupid, you're a fucking worthless thief stealing shit from fucking people.

>>624466
>all this mad
lol
anyways, ive never been dumpster diving. I just dont see anything wrong with it if its trash.
Maybe you should take a nap or something

Look it up.

>>624468
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/13/man-searching-garbage-cans-in-atlanta-shot-in-back/

Get shot.

>>624470
To be fair, it was in Atlanta. He was likely to get shot anyway.

>>624471
that only matters if somebody gives him a bulletproof vest for his trouble.

>>624466
I think you're thinking of different things here. Most dumpster divers collect from dumpsters that are headed to a dump. Scrap dumpsters that are going to be sold by the owners/business are something completely different and taking from those is theft.

>>624509
Yeah, but that's what the guy I was arguing with was talking about.

>>621262
fucking shit tons. freegan.org for a list of spots to start with. but don't rip bags, untie and retie them.

>>624509
Yeah, this. My old workplace had 9 dumpsters out back. 2 for trash, 2 for cardboard, 1 for iron based metals, 1 for aluminum, 1 for other metals, 1 for plastic, and 1 small one for glass (not bottles, sheet glass). We got paid money by weight for every full dumpster of metal, plastic, glass and cardboard that got collected. We only paid for regular trash pick up and it was generally paid for by the money from recycling with some left over.

If we found people trying to pick from our dumpsters, which happened so often we put locks on them, we called the police. We posted signs and everything, get the fuck out, private dumpsters, they would still come. After we put the locks on them they stopped coming at night. Instead they would show up at 7am right after we pulled the locks off to start the day. Let me tell you, the look on the faces of these indignant hippies, that were baffled by why we were pissed off that they were taking money out of our pockets by raffling threw our *clearly marked* dumpsters, was pretty priceless.

The homeless would generally fuck off if we caught them once but the bioneers (one dude called himself that) would come back every fucking week the day of trash pickup. They wouldn't even ask most of the time, jst hop on up and start chucking stuff into the backs of their trucks or bicycle carts (lol). We must have had one dude picked up 4 or 5 times. He wanted our scrap steel for some welding art shit he did. That asshole just didn't get why we were mad, yet he wouldn't pay for the stuff. Finally we threated to have him jailed for theft if he didn't cut it out and he went away.\

The local freecycle people were the worst. We were on them for months to remove our address from their "good pickings" list of dumpsters and they wouldn't do it until we threatened to sue. We're a California company so we're all about saving the planet and shit but some of these wingnuts go to far and are almost militant about it.

>>612287
that is a seriously nice ass

Also I can't imagine dumpster diving being allowed anywhere,.

When I was in my senior year of high school the administration threw out some 70-80 old CRT computer monitors, and maybe 10 flatscreens. I made several trips with my truck (had a damned 5.5 ft long bed and no trailer) and got about fifty of them. Several people saw me but didn't care.

I still have 60 or so c13 computer cables I have no idea what I'm going to do with.

>>624523
We do steel fabrication and occasionally aluminum. Signs locks and chains they would break past them all. Aluminum is about $0.50 per lb we tracked one of them down from his license plate and had him arrested for trespassing, destruction of property (bolt cutter on chains) and theft. Had happened a few times before we chained it up and got the camera. People still come by and pick at it but no one has cut the chains or locks again. I don't think he went to jail, we got a restitution check which we did not deposit.

I do feel sorry for the bastards but seem to feel entitled to our scrap and we feel otherwise.

>>622427
My friend who is really into film told me about Trash Humpers and I got really excited. Then he showed it to me and I just didn't get it.

>>624985
In most of the US, you give up your claim to own stuff when you put it out for trash collection, and as long as someone doesn't have to break a lock / trespass / etc. they're free to take the things you've thrown away.

Local laws may apply

>>624399
You still can convert DM to Euro at a bank. You just can't go shopping with the bills anymore. But if your grandma dies and you find a bag of DM under her bed you can convert it.

In my City (Germany), it is common to put stuff that other people could like in front of you house with a note "free to take home" if you think it is too good for trash but have no use for it anymore.

I find this really cool, did not have this where I used to live before.

I have taken home an old and beaten leather school bag (used the leather to stitch a new medieval style leather bag) some time ago. I did likewise with a CPU cooler I had no use for anymore.

Sometimes you can even get some perfectly good furniture for free this wayor a fridge or freezer.