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Originally Posted by zeno

Interesting moral dilemma. A few thoughts...

Anything outside the box is probably NOT Good Wills
property. Probably technically litter or hazardous waste in the
case of a TV. Also its illegal dumping.
Our Good Will & other boxes say " do not put items outside
of box", that says they did NOT accept them.
At my old dump ANYTHING outside the box was fair picking
game per the GW, town workers & the PD. At the end of the
day if full a loader picked up all the stuff outside & took it
away to the transfer area to be burned.
So IMHO a favor was done for GW & the property owner.
So maybe do this. Since you benefited from the TV next time
you are in GW drop them a $5 cash donation. Win-win for all.

Last thing is a police interaction. Good chance BEFORE you state
your case you will be shaken down. Then have to ID yourself.
go with the flow ! After that you will just be warned away.
If the cop is cool ( an older cop) about it he may leave &
tell you he wont see you take it.

73 Zeno

That was my thoughts exactly, it was sitting outside the box which means it was dumped which as per goodwill policy, dumping is against their policy (there's signs outside of their boxes that even warn that you could get fined for dumping outside of their boxes but people still do it anyways, go figure) and I was just thinking that I was more or less just doing goodwill a favor by hauling off the TV so they didn't have to do it themselves since the goodwill stores around where I live don't even take TVs anymore as per the company policy now. Plus I was giving the TV a chance at a new life elsewhere which it wouldn't of gotten otherwise.