Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 1998

At 08:28 AM 10/27/98, you wrote:
...
 cans for evidence. The court ruled that stuff thrown
into the trash and and
placed on the public right of way (street) for pickup was publicly
available and no longer private property.  Of course, many commercial trash 
As I recall, the police must wait until the authorized agents of a
designated service company (i.e., the garbagemen) have put the potential
evidence into their own container (garbage truck) before they can get at
it.  But, IANAL...

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