When AECON was installing fiber, they stole my rake. Wife had left it out and I guess they thought it was theirs.
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Porch Pirates !
- Thread starter crankcall
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Mikedezo44
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Have been in many customers backyards with lock and chain around their green egg smoker, very common now.
Last summer I got an almost new gas lawnmower beside someones garbage on garbage day. Great condition, still starts first pull. Same model at Canadian tire close to $300. I knocked on their door to make sure but no one was home. Left my phone number on piece of paper in mailbox and said let me know if not garbage I will bring back. Never heard from them.
Another nice Honda lawnmower was at the very end of someones lawn so I stopped, guy came around from side of house and asked him and his response was "oh god no"
good thing I asked.
While back found an early 90's honda track snowblower, knocked on door..OK to take. put some fresh gas in it sold for $300.
Yesterday picked up a nice 2 seater swing for scrap metal, thought about knocking on door but bottom fabric was all ripped up so assumed it was safe.
Last summer I got an almost new gas lawnmower beside someones garbage on garbage day. Great condition, still starts first pull. Same model at Canadian tire close to $300. I knocked on their door to make sure but no one was home. Left my phone number on piece of paper in mailbox and said let me know if not garbage I will bring back. Never heard from them.
Another nice Honda lawnmower was at the very end of someones lawn so I stopped, guy came around from side of house and asked him and his response was "oh god no"
good thing I asked.While back found an early 90's honda track snowblower, knocked on door..OK to take. put some fresh gas in it sold for $300.
Yesterday picked up a nice 2 seater swing for scrap metal, thought about knocking on door but bottom fabric was all ripped up so assumed it was safe.
You guys are making me want to get the trailer ready as tomorrow is garbage day….lawnmowers, bbqs, bicycles, everything one needs.
Fixed.
Neighbour was telling me before we moved in there was a dude that would rummage through the blue bin and no one cared. Until he got tired of digging and would knock over the bins, pull the cans and bottles, and drive off.
They chased him down, forced him to clean it up, and the guy never came back to the street for 5+ years.
I think having a full blue bin is a good thing as it shows people recycle. We have a bin and multiple bags sometimes.
We have an extra blue bin for the empty booze. If it gets full, I drop it off for ~$10. If a kid doing a bottle drive comes by before then, they can have it.
I don't know if it still happens but for quite a while, people would collect the aluminum out of recycle bins. That made a mess of the whole program as the aluminum paid for the rest of the "recycling" that cost money to process and dispose of.
Remember when people bought newspapers and every house had a foot thick bundle at the curb every recycle day. Now Nada.
All the stuff was to fund the recycling and a one time grant from the packaging industry got them off the hook for a lot of recycling costs. Another deal with the devil. Pop cans and bottles are non deposit in Ontario.
Plastic recycling is pathetic.
Mikedezo44
Well-known member
Pretty sure some universities and colleges gave up completely on recycling. Pretty sad when our best and brightest can't even figure out (or too lazy) putting their bottles/garbage in the correct slot. Half of the recycling bags get filled up with garbage, not worth the effort/time to sort so now all to the dump.
Many still pretend to recycle with separate receptacles for garbage and recycling. Watch at pickup time and they all go into the same compartment on the truck. Too much contamination so they send it all to the dump.
Recycling as a green policy is an epic failure. Recycling as a lobbyists wet dream to make plastics appear better and gain an overwhelming market adoption was about as good as it gets. Realistically, most plastic is not economically recyclable and we spend a fortune collecting, sorting and then paying for someone to take it (and I suspect that end user puts most of it in the dump).
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