Anyone dumpster-dive before?

[Cubey]

My ex &amp; I once found someone's birth certificate in the parking lot near a dumpster.<br />Being good samitarians, we took it to the police station... where they proceeded to question us &amp; treat us like low-life scum who stole it out of the person's purse or something (we didn't say ANYTHING about dumpster diving, just that we were walking through the parking lot &amp; we saw it - the parking lot was also the movie theater's parking lot, so it wasn't that suspicious for us to be there in the evening)<br />it really was unpleasant, &amp; it taught me to mind my own business if I see sensitive documents again.

<br /><br />I once found a credit card laying in the gutter once.. that wasn't yet expired. I was on foot and was only a few blocks from the police station so I took it in. They proceed to take down a report asking me all kinds of info and looked at me strangely when I said I found it in the gutter. And it was even obvious it had been run over a few times by people parking at the curb. But they didn't treat me badly, just suspiciously.<br /><br />I say if you find something like a credit card or birth certificate, drop it in the nearest drop-off mail box. That way a postal worker will find it and turn it in and it won't seem so strange for them to be doing so since they found it in a mail box put there by someone else.

 

[peacetara]

This guy named Jeff once said: "Anything can be made useful. Everything is worthwhile. Everyone is worthwhile" - Jeff

I think he is right on for this topic <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> Ffor the curious Jeff is not famous, he writes poems and programs on an old HP calculator, and lives in Davis, CA. But with wisdom like this, maybe he should be famous <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle">

 

[Nelda]

Just to keep this topic going~<br />How about living IN a dumpster???<br />you tube--<br /><br /><br />Nelda

 

[Guest]

So while you are in dumpster diving mode...here is the perfect mobile-home for you and you can just tuck in behind a dumpster for the night....<br /><br />www.edar.org/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />Bri

 

[Guest]

I don't know why that link won't work but just copy and paste into a browser to see it....<br />Bri

 

[tinythetrucker]

wow the deep emotions brought on by this topic my only addition is I'm homeless by choice not by necessity those of you who fall into the latter view this life style differently. necessity will make a resourceful person do almost anything to survive.

 

[Guest]

Yeah David, we are just all riffing on it now...I think the emotions are a few pages back...<img src="/images/boards/smilies/tongue.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" /><br />bri