For all you dumpster divers

[mfreeck]

I thought folks might get a kick out of this story from a local paper. After the police declared it was perfectly legal to sift through someone's trash that was on the curb, the paper decided to go through the mayor's, police chief's, and the DA's trash, who were unhappy to be treated the same way ordinary citizens are. Kudos to the DA for taking it like a man, though they didn't find his credit card number like they did for the police chief.

[TwinVega]

Great article! I think that the officer's actions were just trashy, and their excuses for it was garbage.

[ck3k]

Originally posted by TwinVega
Great article! I think that the officer's actions were just trashy, and their excuses for it was garbage.

That was funny. when the tables get turned opinons change. Grifter had a great how-to manual on dumpster diving in 2600 a while back.

[astcell]

Imagine the trash they get out of the dumpsters at Defcon. Think the FBI collects those dumpsters?

[mfreeck]

Originally posted by astcell
Imagine the trash they get out of the dumpsters at Defcon. Think the FBI collects those dumpsters?

Um, *someone* has to to get the payphones back....

[highwizard]

Originally posted by astcell
Imagine the trash they get out of the dumpsters at Defcon. Think the FBI collects those dumpsters?

Probably the black helicopter people.

[octalpus]

Originally posted by highwizard
Probably the black helicopter people.

We waved at them. They didn't seem to like that.

[TwinVega]

they probably don't look upon that sort of thing too kindly

[ck3k]

Originally posted by octalpussy
We waved at them. They didn't seem to like that.

Waving at people who think they have power is ammusing, like cops, feds,government officals, etc.

[TwinVega]

they probably think it's even more funny when they arrest your ass for no reason.

[astcell]

Oh you mean like this!

[fitzStewart]

The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office doesn't think so. Prosecutor Mark McDonnell says that once you set your garbage out on the curb, it becomes public property.

"She placed her garbage can out in the open, open to public view, in the public right of way," McDonnell told Judge Jean Kerr Maurer earlier this month. "There were no signs on the garbage, 'Do not open. Do not trespass.' There was every indication...she had relinquished her privacy, possessory interest."

My, isn't this the same argument bandwidth thieves use when borrowing someone's wireless internet connection?

[Fused]

around here if u dive in the dumpsters the cops are like wtf are they doing and if u go in them there is a good chance that u are goin to get stuck with a sharpy, its kind of scary.

[Jetf0rce]

Originally posted by astcell
Imagine the trash they get out of the dumpsters at Defcon. Think the FBI collects those dumpsters?

They probably would just find the mass amount of beer bottles and cigarites. Then they might also find the occasional national security risk (Oh my! someone copyed a cd). It would be fun to go through defcons dumpsters. I wonder how many username and passwords we would find. I wish I had the huge paper with the wall of shame in my room.

[TwinVega]

Originally posted by Jetf0rce
They probably would just find the mass amount of beer bottles and cigarites. Then they might also find the occasional national security risk (Oh my! someone copyed a cd). It would be fun to go through defcons dumpsters. I wonder how many username and passwords we would find. I wish I had the huge paper with the wall of shame in my room.

Who the hell at defcon writes down their password....or anyone elses at that matter...the only ones I could think of is the wall of shame, and that wasn't too many.