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Police: Man was bringing cans to Mich. to collect deposits
NewsChannel 3 ^ | February 10, 2011 1:00 PM | unattributed

Posted on 02/11/2011 6:53:03 AM PST by tje

BRANCH COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A Brighton man is in trouble with the law for bringing aluminum cans from Indiana to Michigan to collect the deposits.

On Monday night state police troopers pulled over 64-year-old John Woodfill for driving erratically. He was driving a van with a trailer that didn't have a tailgate.

In the back were more than 60,000 aluminum cans

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: michigan; napl
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To: Slings and Arrows

Maybe Intelligence Director Clapper’s newspaper said an attempt to smuggle Achmed’s Muslim Brotherhood funded, Windsor built bomb will occur somewhere along the US-Canadian shared Indiana border.

81 posted on 02/12/2011 7:00:07 AM PST by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others cite your source.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
If everyone in Ohio and Indiana gathered up their containers and
redeemed them in MI the RECYCLING program would go bust.

Or just MI. It's a scam because they know not everyone will return items
for deposit. Much like the CC scheme where they were only
charging stolen CC numbers .25 but making millions, and nobody complained
about the amount being taken.

82 posted on 02/12/2011 7:09:44 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: netmilsmom
That being said, I used to drive from Cleveland to see my husband on the weekends and bring cans to get the deposits from MI. I know lots of people who have done it.

And many more buy drinks in MI, pay the ridiculous tax and NEVER get their money back. That is what MI is counting on.
83 posted on 02/12/2011 7:25:06 AM PST by John D
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To: tje

Whether this is a felony or not I don’t but what it shows is that the law is sometimes used as a subjective tool to satisfy the lust for control. This old man goes through the effort to collect/buy the cans to turn a profit for himself and gets busted for it. Meanwhile, millions of people sit at home watching their large screens and texting on their I-Whatevers and all they do to “earn” them is to show up once a month for a government check. So tell me, where’s the real crime?


84 posted on 02/12/2011 7:37:35 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Supreme Court overturns car)
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To: All
Where do you return a can in Michigan for the return of the deposit? Is it like the old days when you would bring your soda bottles back to the supermarket each shopping trip and have the 2 cents per bottle deducted from your grocery total or do you take them to a scrap yard. What store is going to return deposits on 60,000 cans?
85 posted on 02/12/2011 7:49:29 AM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: KarlInOhio

Exactly!

My attorney told me that years ago, you have the right to remain silent so USE IT!! Don’t say a damn thing, just show them your ID and nod, it will piss them off like you wouldn’t believe but let HIM deal with the fallout, not me.

The most I’ve ever been involved with the police has been for a few speeding tickets my whole life, but you never forget good free advice from an attorney during a poker game.


86 posted on 02/12/2011 7:54:47 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Springman

I lived in Brighton, then moved to Indiana. My FIL owns a convenience store between Brighton and Howell, and he doesn’t have a return machine, he still counts them out and gives you the money. He then puts them in a big bag, when it fills up to a line it is worth $100, so the delivery driver pays him the money and takes the bags away for him. Larger stores use the barcode machines, but a couple of small independent less scrupulous store owners could and would gladly take them all back knowing they were from Indiana for a cut off the top.


87 posted on 02/12/2011 8:06:31 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: tje
One man's trash is another man's dime......or something like that.

FWIW, the 10 cent deposit on bottles and cans that was implemented here in Michigan back in the '70's was the best thing that ever happened to this state. Driving the country roads in northern Michigan all you would see were discarded bottles and rusting cans. Now they're not out there a day before someone picks them up.

My dad used to be the chief ranger of a metro-park here in S.E. Michigan and he said there were bottle and can collectors that hung out at his park who would make well over a hundred dollars a day on busy weekends and holidays.......

They should implement the 10 cent deposits on those plastic water bottles now........

88 posted on 02/12/2011 8:15:01 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Oh Magoo, you've done it again.....)
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To: Dead Corpse
The people of Michigan are idiots then.

Maybe but we've got fewer cans and bottles lying on the streets and in the parks than states that don't have deposit fees........

When we purchase a 6-pack we pay a 10 cent deposit on each of those cans and when someone returns the empties, the state gives the money back.

Why expect the state to return monies for cans that were not secured by a deposit?

The same philosophy would apply to taxes. Can I go to the state of Illinois and say I'm expecting a refund from my Michigan state income taxes but I want Illinois to pay it to me?

89 posted on 02/12/2011 8:40:03 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Oh Magoo, you've done it again.....)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.


90 posted on 02/12/2011 10:13:55 AM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: Yet_Again
Transporting aluminum cans across state lines?

...to get the 10 Cent deposit return that Indiana does not have. IF he had purchased them in Michigan I do not believe it would have been a problem.

91 posted on 02/12/2011 10:18:47 AM PST by madison10
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To: Dead Corpse

Hey, don’t try to steal the deposits and you won’t get into trouble. We pay an extra 10 cents a container, why should you get to come across state lines, without having paid a deposit to steal our money?


92 posted on 02/12/2011 10:21:40 AM PST by madison10
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To: madison10

Do you feel the same when I am not able to get my return when I leave? This is a big money making tax for big blue.


93 posted on 02/12/2011 11:16:39 AM PST by John D
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To: Dead Corpse
Sounds like Obamacare.

Well this is MI. One of the heaviest taxed states around. One that loves taxes and obama. I know I used to live there.
94 posted on 02/12/2011 11:20:05 AM PST by John D
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To: tje
The crime is a felony.

I think it was a Seinfeld episode, too...

95 posted on 02/12/2011 11:47:25 AM PST by Miss_Meyet (Good bye, tagline! I'll always remember who I thought you were)
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To: John D

Not Michigan’s problem.


96 posted on 02/12/2011 12:29:22 PM PST by madison10
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To: tje

Just another example of way to much gubmint.


97 posted on 02/12/2011 1:02:11 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
...state police troopers pulled over 64-year-old John Woodfill for driving erratically. He was driving a van with a trailer that didn't have a tailgate. In the back were more than 60,000 aluminum can...
Gee, I'm glad they're crackin' down on stuff like this. Such behavior undermines both the society and legal commerce. Thanks tje.

98 posted on 02/12/2011 1:04:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: milford421

Kramer

...that funny!

Now if Kramer was an illigal alien...


99 posted on 02/12/2011 3:56:27 PM PST by restornu
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To: Pontiac

.....In the back were more than 60,000 aluminum cans.

Police say that Woodfill admitted that he bought the cans from recyclers in Indiana and then took them to Brighton and cashed them in for the deposits. He said he’d being doing it for over three years.

Woodfill now faces a four-year felony. His preliminary hearing will take place on February 17th.


100 posted on 02/12/2011 4:00:56 PM PST by restornu
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