Scrounging became CRIMINAL this weekend...

[urbanchickymama]

LOL .... If that ATV was in that bad of shape, anyone who wanted to "steal" something of value would have passed! Unless, they were after people stealing scrap. But then put the thing where people have been stealing from... not a dumping ground!

BTW.... I'm a big scavenger too! Picked up tons of great stuff.... However.... I will put out this warning... be careful what you pick! I went to get a carpet out of a ditch once.... there was a body in it!!! Yep, all rolled up nice and neat... a woman in her 30's...guess where I spent the better part of that day! Giving statements! Turns out she was from the Chicago area and they were nice enough to drive her about 80 miles to dump her by me!

OMG this is one of my biggest fears, I never go near carpet just for that reason! I tell myself it's because it might have bedbugs but really I'm afraid there might be a person rolled up in it!! lol

 

[Icu4dzs]

Maybe you should also give them all the garbage you picked up off the road too! Give them all your garbage that you want to rid yourself of and tell them you're sorry you cleaned their roadside. In fact have all your friends and neighbors bring all their garbage to the sheriffs office and include a note of apology for picking it up all THEIR garbage off the side of the road. That might at least get them thinking about doing their job and not using "entrapment" tactics!
It would be really funny to see all that garbage "returned to the sheriff"

 

[Denim Deb]

Trim, you are so bad!

 

[Cindlady2]

Maybe you should also give them all the garbage you picked up off the road too! Give them all your garbage that you want to rid yourself of and tell them you're sorry you cleaned their roadside. In fact have all your friends and neighbors bring all their garbage to the sheriffs office and include a note of apology for picking it up all THEIR garbage off the side of the road. That might at least get them thinking about doing their job and not using "entrapment" tactics!
It would be really funny to see all that garbage "returned to the sheriff"

LMAO.... I like that!

 

[Icu4dzs]

This whole thread reminds me of a story put inti the form of a song I sing when I play a gig. It tells a very similar story...

"Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got alot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our's down.

That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a Thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."

After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.

Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon,and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shutup, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."

And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner, the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the -roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later thatAlice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with agg few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to goto court."
A. Guthrie

Trim sends
//BT//

 

[Dawn419]

You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant...

I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day, now! Thanks Trim! (No, it's not a bad thing!)

 

[lazyday]

Oh my goodness............ I haven't heard Alice's restaurant in years thanks for making my day

 

[Cindlady2]

LMAO!!!! That song used to roll around in my head so often!!! Thanks for posting the lyrics!!!

Dang we must be a bunch of coots! LOL

 

[savalot]

I just had to be part of this because , I remember to...So how old does that make us.??? LOL
I live next to a rail yard and often take a walk up and down the tracks , not only is the garbage unsightly but all of the old steel laying around , never to be used.Dang...They don't even dig up old tracks when new development is being done , they just bury them. And they wont let anyone take it either to get it recycled.What a waist

 

[chickenjoe]

I had something similar, We walk our dog down the road. I bring a grocery bag with us to pick up cans and bottles long the road. The state we live in there a 5cent deposit. I spot a license plate on the side of the road put in the bag to bring to the station. Within 2 minutes a trooper pull up asking if I was going to turn it in. I said yes. Got me think if was some kind of setup.