Late model Sony Trinitron Spotted outside a Goodwill dropbox...

[Jon A.]

When I picked up my 1976 Electrohome, the seller tried to talk me into buying a 32" Trinitron CONSOLE. Imagine trying to wrestle with that thing, even with a hand truck. The curved staircase coming from around the back of the house made it difficult to get the 25" Electrohome out of there.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

When I picked up my 1976 Electrohome, the seller tried to talk me into buying a 32" Trinitron CONSOLE. Imagine trying to wrestle with that thing, even with a hand truck. The curved staircase coming from around the back of the house made it difficult to get the 25" Electrohome out of there.

Interestingly enough my aunt and uncle had at their house in Culver, Indiana (the town which is famouse the world over for Culver Military Academy), had an old Sony Trinitron Console TV in their Basement, and as far as I know they just left it there instead of Moving it with them to their home in Bloomington, Indiana (the city that's known the world over for Indiana University which has a famous music school and art school) and as far as I know the TV still works and it had a really nifty feature which was that the remote would hide-away inside the front of the TV's cabinet.

[etype2]

The fact that you mentioned that you would take it at 10:30 at night when no one was around and that "you didn't get caught", tells me you knew it wasn't right.

If you come on my property and take something from my yard without my permission, that's theft pure and simple.

You can justify taking the set with all you said, but the best thing would have been to ask permission first.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by etype2

The fact that you mentioned that you would take it at 10:30 at night when no one was around and that "you didn't get caught", tells me you knew it wasn't right.

If you come on my property and take something from my yard without my permission, that's theft pure and simple.

You can justify taking the set with all you said, but the best thing would have been to ask permission first.

I had to say that because obviously there's more than likely going to be some folks out there that aren't going to realize that Goodwill isn't taking TVs anymore (as demonstated by the fact that someone had dumped the TV outside of the Goodwill dropbox thinking that Goodwill still took TVs yet) and that there could of been that one person out there that might of seen me taking the TV and called the police not knowing that the Goodwill wasn't taking TVs anymore and that I was trying to do Goodwill a favor by taking that TV so that they didn't have to deal with it themselves.

[Jon A.]

Haters gonna hate.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

Haters gonna hate.

Yep, As I was trying to explain it had nothing to do with wanting to steal the TV, I was just wanting to give that TV another chance at life considering that it wouldn't of seen another chance at life in the hands of Goodwill.

[etype2]

Why didn't you ask permission first?

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by etype2

Why didn't you ask permission first?

I know what you're doing so you can just drop it ok! You don't need to be trying to start arguments with me.

[dieseljeep]

I have a Sony hernia as well.
One of my usual haunts, is the SVDP store.
Someone dropped off some cheap hollow core flush doors. The narrow ones, I use as shelves. They're strong enough to hold my TV and other electronics, collection, plus they're a lot cheaper than plywood or OSB. Buck a piece, basically a donation!
They don't take TV sets anymore, either. Someone dropped off a 36" Toshiba, after hours. They asked me, if I wanted to buy it. I replied, I don't buy anything, I can't lift myself.

[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

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I have a Sony hernia as well.
One of my usual haunts, is the SVDP store.
Someone dropped off some cheap hollow core flush doors. The narrow ones, I use as shelves. They're strong enough to hold my TV and other electronics, collection, plus they're a lot cheaper than plywood or OSB. Buck a piece, basically a donation!
They don't take TV sets anymore, either. Someone dropped off a 36" Toshiba, after hours. They asked me, if I wanted to buy it. I replied, I don't buy anything, I can't lift myself.

the SVDP in Oconomowoc still takes and sells TVs, and perhaps the Waukesha store too.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Yep, As I was trying to explain it had nothing to do with wanting to steal the TV, I was just wanting to give that TV another chance at life considering that it wouldn't of seen another chance at life in the hands of Goodwill.

The owners of the location, where the drop box is located, generally stipulate that nothing be left outside the box. The space is donated and the owner doesn't want their place to look like a dumping ground.
Lucky thing for the owner, that the set was taken whole, instead of being smashed up for the copper content by the bottom-feeders.

[Captainclock]

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.

[Captainclock]

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's what I was thinking of doing, probably just give them a donation of some sort, and maybe tell them it was for hauling off a TV for them that was dumped off in front of one of their donation bins which as we know is considered illegal dumping.

[Captainclock]

Well I managed to get the TV hauled inside with a little manhandling and some creative thinking skills, I first brought out an old wheeled cooler and set the TV ontop of that and used that to get the TV inside the house and then I manhandled the TV up the 3 steps into the hallway in front of the staircase going into the basement and then I took and carefully slid the TV down the steps into the basement and then set it up ontop of an old Console radio cabinet that I made into a TV Stand (because the radio was shot in it so I recycled the guts in it to free up some space in the basement) and hooked up my SNES up to it and turned it on and at first the picture was extremely fuzzy and I couldn't figure out why (I was using the RF Modulator built into the SNES for the video signal) but then I went and jiggled the RF Modulator cable a little bit and the picture cleared up (which means that my RF Modulator connector is got a screwy ground connection somewhere) and the TV has excellent picture yet, in fact it looks like it might be a low hours set perhaps a bedroom set maybe. The only issues I see wrong with it is that theres a huge chunk chipped out of the front of the TV Cabinet below the picture tube area where the front foot is, and the door for the front AV jacks is missing, and it doesn't have its original remote but really for what it is and considering what I'm going to be using it for those issues are pretty minor considering that the TV still works flawlessly. I have some pictures/screenshots of the TV in action and to be honest the camera doesn't do the TV proper justice as far as how good it looks picture wise. Also I was looking at the the label on the back and apparently according to the label on the back its actually a 27" set and not a 19" set like I thought it was (which would explain why it was as heavy as it was) and the TV was from 2000 which would be from just before they discontinued the Trinitrons and replaced them with the WEGA TVs.