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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
It does not cost anything to drop off items on recycle day; but, unfortunately, scavenging is not allowed. Once it goes into their hands, that's the end of it. Last year, I took a couple of junk '80's Zenith consoles there and all they did was throw them in a long roll-off dumpster. Fortunately, I did not see any other electronics. That's probably a good thing because there might have been a fight had I seen something like a color roundie or a Fisher 500C and they wouldn't let me have it.
Most people don't fool with recycle day. They illegally dump their trash in some ditch or in the county green boxes. Now, county officials are talking about setting up video cameras at the green boxes in order to catch illegal dumpers and scavengers. Once, a friend of mine saw someone that didn't look too well off going through some clothes that someone threw away at the dumpster. A deputy pulled up and gave them a ticked for scavenging! My friend was very upset by this and said even if he was a law enforcement officer, there's no way he'd give someone a ticket for "dumpster diving". Many of these people are "dumpster diving" out of necessity and the last thing they need is a $100 ticket.
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I keep thinking of the quote from Michael Savage one night, "your father was a freer man than you, even though he made a third less money than you do." I'm not for illegal dumping on the side of the road, but to monitor dumpsters for poor people and enthusiasts like us is pure horse hockey and a waste of resources, resources that can be used to catch and keep real crooks off the street. Have we followed through on Savage's quote, if we took the man from 1950, 1960 or 1970 and brought him here, he'd probably wonder if he woke up in Red China or the USSR. Whatever happened to "finder's, keeper's" and "live and let live?"
Sorry guys, but when I see things like this, I have to vent. I know we might be crossing into some politics, but in a way, politics is crossing into us. I just want to be left alone and pursue my hobbies as long as I'm not hurting anybody.