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Posted: 8/5/2005 5:14:48 PM EDT

My dogs started going nuts and I just looked out the window and my neighbor is going through my trash. WTF?

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:16:23 PM EDT

[#1]

Why are you posting and not out there
confronting him/her?

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:17:44 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Why are you posting and not out there
confronting him/her?

Two reasons, he is a weird little shit and I have been drinking......in this case I think it would be best just to call the cops. ETA this is also the same guy that my dog bit a year ago.....

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:19:06 PM EDT

[#3]

If it's on the curb it aint illegal...but confront them anyways.

SGatr15

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:19:15 PM EDT

[#4]

As far as i remember SCOTUS passed that when you put it to the curb its free game.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:19:54 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Why are you posting and not out there
confronting him/her?
Two reasons, he is a weird little shit and I have been drinking......in this case I think it would be best just to call the cops. ETA this is also the same guy that my dog bit a year ago.....

MAN UP! You want to call the cops over trivial shit?

Just TALK TO HIM

Sgtar15

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:20:32 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
If it's on the curb it aint illegal...

SGatr15

That is what I thought.....wierd guy. Gives me the creeps.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:21:26 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Why are you posting and not out there
confronting him/her?
Two reasons, he is a weird little shit and I have been drinking......in this case I think it would be best just to call the cops. ETA this is also the same guy that my dog bit a year ago.....

If it is on the tree lawn, it is public
domain IIRC. If it is on your property,
he is tresspassing (of course).

Option two is to drink more, go out and
confront him with your dog, tape the
whole thing, and post it (after you post
bail)

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:22:17 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Why are you posting and not out there
confronting him/her?
Two reasons, he is a weird little shit and I have been drinking......in this case I think it would be best just to call the cops. ETA this is also the same guy that my dog bit a year ago.....

MAN UP! You want to call the cops over trivial shit?

Just TALK TO HIM

Sgtar15

Well if he is breaking a crime then sure, however if it isn't, now wouldn't be the best time. Since the dog bitting incident we have been walking on egg shells and since I have been drinking it wouldn't be smart to do....

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:22:20 PM EDT

[#9]

Got a Maglight?

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:23:18 PM EDT

[#10]

He is taking the blanket that my friends dog pissed on!!!!!!!

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:23:49 PM EDT

[#11]

put a bunch of dog shit. fish, etc... in your trash can, and i bet he'll stop going through it.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:24:46 PM EDT

[#12]

I do believe that the town or city owns 10 feet in from the curb.

Not illegal but definitely weird. I would have definitely drawn down on him...

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:25:42 PM EDT

[#13]

Looks like a burned up frying pan and and old pair of boots. I am not worried about any personal information getting out because I shred all of that stuff, but I don't think he is smart enough to use it. He is just a creek. He looks like Jeffery Daughmer.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:26:08 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
He is taking the blanket that my friends dog pissed on!!!!!!!

JUST TALK TO THE GUY!

Who cares if you are drinking.

Jesus H Chreist what is the matter with you?

Sgat1r5

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:26:31 PM EDT

[#15]

Spray him with a water hose... That's what I do to the dogs in my neighborhood

EPOCH

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:27:14 PM EDT

[#16]

Not in Portland Oregon. Seems a reporter found some embarrassing things from Mayor Vera Cats and she tried to get a judgement against him being able to use it and lost!

Patty

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:28:12 PM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:28:19 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
He is taking the blanket that my friends dog pissed on!!!!!!!

JUST TALK TO THE GUY!

Who cares if you are drinking.

Jesus H Chreist what is the matter with you?

Sgat1r5

So he calls the cops on me and starts saying that I am being a pissed off drunk. I will talk to him tomorrow when I haven't been drinking.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:30:36 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
So he calls the cops on me and starts saying that I am being a pissed off drunk. I will talk to him tomorrow when I haven't been drinking.

In about a week, just walk up to him
and say: "By the way: I pissed on that
blanket." Then walk away.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:30:41 PM EDT

[#20]

Looks like he is taking my old cooler now..........

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:33:10 PM EDT

[#21]

Grab and empty trashcan and put something in it that will entice him, have it stickout out the top. Hockey stick, chainsaw. Something long.

Then suprise him.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:34:28 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
As far as i remember SCOTUS passed that when you put it to the curb its free game.

Yep.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:35:08 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Grab and empty trashcan and put something in it that will entice him, have it stickout out the top. Hockey stick, chainsaw. Something long.

Then suprise him.

Take the opportunity to screw with him. Go to the butcher's shop and get a pig head or something bloody and nasty and put it in the trash for him.... mooohhhahaaaaa.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:38:19 PM EDT

[#24]

Well I haven't seen him since he grabbed the cooler.

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:40:55 PM EDT

[#25]

Rummaging trash piles ia a time honored tradition with some people. I'm always on the lookout for
something cool in the trash, myself. And I've found quite a lot. Even got a shotgun once. Stevens model 67 12 ga. pump.

Be glad that someone is taking some of your trash and will be using it for something rather than letting
it get into the landfill.

CJ

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:42:07 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Rummaging trash piles ia a time honored tradition with some people. I'm always on the lookout for
something cool in the trash, myself. And I've found quite a lot. Even got a shotgun once. Stevens model 67 12 ga. pump.

Be glad that someone is taking some of your trash and will be using it for something rather than letting
it get into the landfill.

CJ

Posted: 8/5/2005 5:44:02 PM EDT

[#27]

I do it all the time.

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:01:51 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
As far as i remember SCOTUS passed that when you put it to the curb its free game.

Yep.

Garbage is defined as Abandoned Property.

As you don’t want it any more anybody who wants to can take it.

Remember the movie The Star Chamber?
The movie had some person’s garbage swiped or something like that. Michael Douglas, as a judge, declared that snooping in somebody’s garbage was Invasion of Privacy. A Real Life Judge explained that in the Real World garbage is, like I just explained, Abandoned Property and anybody who wants to can take it.

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:10:36 PM EDT

[#29]

Standard ArfCom Responses:

1. If there's nothing Illegal in your Trash why worry?

2. Whatever you do Post Pics!

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:14:50 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

1. If there's nothing Illegal in your Trash why worry?

It is just creepy.

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:15:43 PM EDT

[#31]

Hey... I say help him out... Next week take your trash and throw it on his porch, that way if it rains, he won't get wet....

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:21:15 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Rummaging trash piles ia a time honored tradition with some people. I'm always on the lookout for
something cool in the trash, myself. And I've found quite a lot. Even got a shotgun once. Stevens model 67 12 ga. pump.

Be glad that someone is taking some of your trash and will be using it for something rather than letting
it get into the landfill.

CJ

Yep, my grandpa used to go dumpster diving (not exactly the same thing) and scrounging every
morning when he was done with his pre-dawn fishing.
He found a lot of perfectly good stuff including an Epiphone acoustic guitar, a Gibson SG electric,
and my first bass guitar.

If this guy is anything like pops he'll keep coming back to where he found the good stuff.

Posted: 8/5/2005 6:22:29 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
He is taking the blanket that my friends dog pissed on!!!!!!!

JUST TALK TO THE GUY!

Who cares if you are drinking.

Jesus H Chreist what is the matter with you?

Sgat1r5
So he calls the cops on me and starts saying that I am being a pissed off drunk. I will talk to him tomorrow when I haven't been drinking.

Cops respond to two people talking to each other?

Sgat1r5

Posted: 8/5/2005 7:39:42 PM EDT

[#34]

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
Why is ~~Private Pyle holding that weapon~~ your neighbor going through your trash?
Why are you not stomping ~~Private Pyle's~~ your neighbor's guts out?

Posted: 8/5/2005 7:57:51 PM EDT

[#35]

Every time i see some stuff on the curb i look and see if there would be any thing good to shoot at,is that strange?

..I have scored some pretty good targets.

Posted: 8/5/2005 8:07:32 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Every time i see some stuff on the curb i look and see if there would be any thing good to shoot at,is that strange?..I have scored some pretty good targets.

old appliances are good for this.

Posted: 8/5/2005 8:14:02 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
He is taking the blanket that my friends dog pissed on!!!!!!!

JUST TALK TO THE GUY!

Who cares if you are drinking.

Jesus H Chreist what is the matter with you?

Sgat1r5
So he calls the cops on me and starts saying that I am being a pissed off drunk. I will talk to him tomorrow when I haven't been drinking.

Cops respond to two people talking to each other?

Sgat1r5

VT,
Ignore this. You're right in not confronting him while intoxicated. This is some of the worst advice I've seen.

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