Dumpster stories!

Hey, come on, dumpster diving is fun! Most of the time I find nothing, but the few times that I do, it's all worth it. AFA hazards, I'm exposed to much more hazardous things daily. Chemical hazards: In the darkroom: Hydroquinone (fatal at 1 tsp), acetic acid, sulphuric acid. When I'm mixing the stop, it's 28% acetic acid. (Same stuff as vinegar, but what you buy for food is normally about 5%). Cyanide. Bleach. 6 molar HCl in Chemistry all the time. Other: Possible interactions and side effects with medications I take daily. An unexpected athsma attack. Staticmasters (Negative cleaning brush with radioactive strip embedded in the bottom.) Asbestos fire curtains and pipe insulations all over my school. Yes, it is cracked and dust falls off all the time. Why? Because Milford is trash. No one cares. Not to mention driving, falling down the stairs, choking on the caffinated peppermints I eat as soon as I wake up... so climbing into a dumpster is really the least of my worries. The neatest things I've found (but was unable to take because of size): Centrifuge (the size of a washing machine) Non-functioning SEM (!!) [Yes, really a scanning electron microscope] Associated non-functioning control computers and frame grabber Kept: An entire garbage bag full of 3.5" floppies (I'm still going off of that.. about 3 years ago) Silent 700 Tons of misc. stuff And so on. But it's really exciting to see what you might find in your local inconspicuous dumpster! Kevin