Dumpster diving..
#1
Registered User
Thread Starter
iTrader: (3)
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Jose
Posts: 411
Car Info: 2005 WRB WRX
Dumpster diving..
..is it illegal or no? Or does it vary by region?
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops becahse
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops becahse
#2
Registered User
Thread Starter
iTrader: (3)
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Jose
Posts: 411
Car Info: 2005 WRB WRX
Dumpster diving..
..is it illegal or no? Or does it vary by region?
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops because the couple would be gone by the time SJPD would even arrive, if at all.
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops because the couple would be gone by the time SJPD would even arrive, if at all.
#5
Technical Know-It-All
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Sterling, VA
Posts: 2,123
Car Info: '02 WRX + '15 WRX
It's illegal, at least in TX. I know this because I know someone arrested for digging collectible items out of a store's dumpster bin. Legally the items are still the property of the store even though they threw them out.
#6
It's QQ thankyouverymuch
iTrader: (39)
Legal... If you have waste management cans, they aren't actually yours and at the curb, they are in the public domain. Dumpsters/your own cans is different I think.
Although I think they are technically disturbing the peace if they are waking you up at 4am.
Although I think they are technically disturbing the peace if they are waking you up at 4am.
Last edited by JourdanWithaU; 07-20-2012 at 07:46 AM.
#10
We had a homeless guy in Pacifica that was going through everybody's trash and making a mess so we called the police who came out and took him away. They told my neighbor that they need your permission to go through your trash.
I felt really bad for the dude, he was obviously at a low point in his life and so I didn't care but my neighbor was not in agreement and called the cops.
#11
Registered User
iTrader: (28)
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Fremont, CA
Posts: 538
Car Info: 2002 WRX- MBP
This reminds me of a story.
My wife usually wakes up before me, and one Friday morning, I got up first. and I saw the weirdest thing. I lived in a town home, so the back is all open. I saw a lady drag a big bag of cans and toss it over the fence into a backyard. I take it that it was her back yard, cuz i see a guy grab the bag and bring it somewhere else.
I was like WTF????? I woke my wife to tell her.. she goes "oh yeah that lady does that every week..." hahahah
My wife usually wakes up before me, and one Friday morning, I got up first. and I saw the weirdest thing. I lived in a town home, so the back is all open. I saw a lady drag a big bag of cans and toss it over the fence into a backyard. I take it that it was her back yard, cuz i see a guy grab the bag and bring it somewhere else.
I was like WTF????? I woke my wife to tell her.. she goes "oh yeah that lady does that every week..." hahahah
#13
File a noise complaint, cities usually have 'quiet hours' between 10pm-6am.
In a complex we used to live in, we had dumpster divers coming about 4am so they sent a LEO to swing by at around that time. Made contact with the homeless dude, told him if he was seen in the area again he'd be arrested. He didn't come back, or if he did he was a whole lot quieter
In a complex we used to live in, we had dumpster divers coming about 4am so they sent a LEO to swing by at around that time. Made contact with the homeless dude, told him if he was seen in the area again he'd be arrested. He didn't come back, or if he did he was a whole lot quieter
#15
Token Toyota Mod
iTrader: (50)
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Posts: 52,306
Car Info: Something german
..is it illegal or no? Or does it vary by region?
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops becahse
I swear this is the most annoying thing ever. Every Friday morning there's an old couple that comes into my neighborhood and just starts making all kinds of noise. I'm not sure if they're homeless or not but whatever. So keep in mind that I live in a newer neighborhood with a bunch of townhouses so the way we put our trash out is to line our cans on the curb along a small stretch of bushes. There must be at least 16 or so trashcans every week. And my unit just so happens to be the closest to the curb.
So everyday Friday morning between the hours of 4am-6am I'm woken up by the rustling noise of a shopping cart coming up the street, followed by the commotion of cans rolling, glass bottles, cans being crushed, and the slamming of garbage can doors. ITS ANNOYING AS FAWK! It seriously makes me wanna go outside and ask them to leave. I think one of my neighbors had confronted them a while back.
What would be the best thing for me to do? I don't wanna call the cops becahse
call the cops.
If they are taking recyclables out of the recyclable bins that's taking from the recycling companies.
It is one way those collection companies can keep cost down and process all the rest of the non-profitable items to be recycled.
Also,check with your local laws. It might be considered petty theft.