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That’s my nightmare: Having the police roll up while scavenging. We actually dont do much dumpster diving because of this, plus we dont have good dumpster opportunities in our poor county.
This guy handled himself very well. I wouldnt have been so calm or recorded the entire incident. Good for him.
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I gotta stop going to youtube. I cannot resist watching picking videos. Got into the storage unit auction live videos vortex. That would be so much fun.
Bad for him, great video on how not to dumpster dive. He entered a fenced/ gated area. And he filmed his own confession! It might not hold up to a jury but there was certainly enough to book him, and impound his minivan and car seat… Hopefully there was not a real emergency that was impacted by the whole shenanigan. There are so many legit opportunities, why bother.
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ScrapVulture makes a living off dumpster diving and had a video a few months back where someone attempted a citizen’s arrest on him. He rattled off details about the legality of dumpster diving in his town and deescalated the situation. Still insane, but if you know what the rules are you can protect yourself. I believe he even checks the dumpster of his local PD.
I’ve not had a ton of problems with hitting recycling bins for boxes and packing materials. For true trash digging I usually wear a large backpack and ride my bike. More stealthy and it’s a quicker getaway.
I think cops where I’m at are mostly worried about illegally dumping anyway. They might not have too big of a problem if I got caught and told them I was actually removing stuff 🙂
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Trespassing is the law that you’re breaking if the landowner wants to enforce it. Imagine if someone came up to your house and went through your trash.
But it’s a dumb thing for stores to be angry about. Managers are probably upset that people are finding out they’re throwing away perfectly good items.
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We had one section of industrial area in our city that was 2-3 miles long with many dumpsters. It was before recycling was big – 35 years ago or so – and in that particular area (unlike the others) no one cared if anyone scavenged the dumpsters.
Well – I was cop and would drive in behind warehouses and manufacturing places and people would be in the dumpster or searching it. They’d get all scared, only to find out that I would position my police car spotlight to bounce off the inside top of the over cover – the inside of the dumpster would become brightly lit. I’d say go ahead and search – grab what you want!
People just couldn’t believe it! I’d watch to see what they’d find – and compliment them on good finds.
Then recycling got big and dumpster companies made money from the trash. In fact, in later years – our city passed an ordinance against “tampering” with any trash – even trash at the curb. Trash companies would hire us after our shift to go out and prevent trash picking! We’d worl 4pm to 12am shirts then work for the trash company from 12am to 4am. Recycling is big business and big money these days.
Just a true story I though some of you would get a kick out of.
(two best dumpsters – they’d get cable TV wire, splitters, amplifiers, connectors and from another place – they’d get the end of the rolls of super heavy and thick cloth strapping)
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