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Stay Out of My Trash! (Vanity)
11-29-05 | me

Posted on 11/29/2005 8:59:34 AM PST by Awestruck

I woke up this morning to find a city worker peeking inside my trash cans, when asked just what the hey did he think he was doing, he replied, this isn't a warning, just information, but styrofoam doesn't go in the blue container! This is just one more indignity in the long line of city choke holds that goes on in Fresno, California. We have water nazis to make sure we water at the appropriate time and on the appropriate day, we have chimney nazis to make sure we don't light our fireplaces on an unnapproved day, and now, apparently, we have trash nazis, walking around checking our trash cans! To me this is an unnacceptable invasion of privacy and a further erosion of my rights as a human being. If our trash isn't safe from this nonsense, what's next?


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KEYWORDS: garbagepickers; invasionofprivacy; trashnazis
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1 posted on 11/29/2005 8:59:35 AM PST by Awestruck
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To: Awestruck
what's next you ask... bathroom passes.
2 posted on 11/29/2005 9:00:42 AM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: Awestruck
what's next?

A For Sale sign in front of your house....

Move to a sane part of the country.

3 posted on 11/29/2005 9:01:39 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: Awestruck

I hope you shred all your bills and papers containing personal info.


4 posted on 11/29/2005 9:02:00 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Awestruck

Hint: don't live in a city.


5 posted on 11/29/2005 9:02:00 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Awestruck

Another reason for me to be grateful I don't live in the People's Democratic Republic of Kahleefoaneeahh. I pity those of you who still do... :-(


6 posted on 11/29/2005 9:02:00 AM PST by TChris ("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
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To: Awestruck


Hmmmm - are you sure it was a city worker? Maybe it was someone posing as one so he could go through garbage cans looking for information that could be used for identity theft? Am I crazy? Maybe.


7 posted on 11/29/2005 9:02:33 AM PST by ninergold3 (aka GiantsPrincess)
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To: Awestruck

Well....put the styrofoam in the fireplace and light it and get the water hose out to extinguish it. When they all run up to your house, sell them Amway products or have a bake sale. Better?


8 posted on 11/29/2005 9:03:06 AM PST by Safetgiver (Noone spoke when the levee done broke, Blanco cried and Nagin lied.)
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To: Awestruck

MOVE...it's only going to get worse. I'm not kidding. Plus, don't they give you a different bin to put stuff like that in. If they do, then it's your fault. If not, than MOVE.


9 posted on 11/29/2005 9:03:08 AM PST by Hildy
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To: Awestruck

We already have food nazis and weight obsessed nazis, so I guess the next thing will be transportation nazis.

Got a good bike and walking shoes ready?

Is there a gnome and lawn ornament nazi out there, too?


10 posted on 11/29/2005 9:03:18 AM PST by OpusatFR (Yup. I'm a Rad Trad in a Novus world. And loving it!)
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To: Awestruck
  1. You have no expectation of privacy in trash you leave out on the curb. Shred everything you can.


11 posted on 11/29/2005 9:04:19 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Awestruck

Some towns don't have trash collection and the citizens enter into private agreements with free enterprise.

Surprise! The service is better and the costs are lower.


12 posted on 11/29/2005 9:05:34 AM PST by saveliberty (I think so, Brain, but a #2 pencil won't write on Fruit-Roll-Ups)
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Hmmm. Looks like a 203B code violation; guess I'll call for backup...

13 posted on 11/29/2005 9:05:38 AM PST by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: Awestruck
Hey, dude... YOU'RE the one who placed your trash in the public domain.
If you want to keep your trash private, then store it in your bedroom.
14 posted on 11/29/2005 9:06:02 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

Its only a sample of whats to come if we had a Socialist liberal government.

Thank God Canada is bringing their liberal government out to the curb in the Blue Bucket.


15 posted on 11/29/2005 9:06:42 AM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: Awestruck

I believe the Supreme Court ruled that once you place your garbage out on the roadside, it is no longer "yours".


16 posted on 11/29/2005 9:08:08 AM PST by Paradox (Just because we are not perfect, does not mean we are not good.)
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To: Awestruck

If you leave something in the trash, it is fair game. Anyone can come and look at your garbage all they want.


17 posted on 11/29/2005 9:08:20 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance
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To: martin_fierro

I have four cats. And seven litter pans.

I can only hope........


18 posted on 11/29/2005 9:09:47 AM PST by OpusatFR (Yup. I'm a Rad Trad in a Novus world. And loving it!)
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To: Awestruck
styrofoam doesn't go in the blue container!

Well... it doesn't.

Trash is public domain, I'm afraid. Don't you watch CSI?

19 posted on 11/29/2005 9:09:50 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Awestruck
Looking through your trash is an invasion of your privacy?

Did you think this one through? Yeah...I didn't think so. (There is a reason why it is called "trash").

20 posted on 11/29/2005 9:10:29 AM PST by ContemptofCourt
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