10 Feb
2000
10 Feb
'00
5:36 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
In the UK you have to get the permission of the owner
of the
skip/dumpster to take stuff out. I've been lucky in that I've often been
allowed to do this.
Uh...same thing here, but trolls abound. I've never been given permission
to dig in anyone's trash; in fact, the mere mention of interest in someone
else's refuse has frequently gotten me threats of what would happen if I
went against their wishes. I no longer ask, I just wait for a moonless
night, put on the black turtleneck, and take a little flashlight with
me...
Someone mentioned the "anything goes" trash night. We used to purposefully
find interesting looking crap to put on the curb, then sit in lawn chairs
and wait to see who stopped by. We met some really interesting, friendly
people that way, and managed to barter for some cool stuff (I got an
original Oddyssey that way). It's fun to watch "ordinary" people trolling
around in stake-bed trucks loaded with all kinds of discarded treasures.
Aaron