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Close call in Dumpster
MetroWest Daily News ^ | Friday, June 17, 2005 | Norman Miller

Posted on 06/17/2005 6:01:11 AM PDT by Boston Blackie

FRAMINGHAM -- Wendy Cobb said she thought she was going to die when she was tossed from a Dumpster she was scouring for cans into the rear of a garbage truck.

"I came inches away from having no life," said Cobb, 38. "I was yelling, kicking, screaming, doing everything I could to get the driver's attention. I was screaming, 'Help me, help me.' There wasn't anything I could do. I'm very upset. I'm emotionally upset."

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To: Boston Blackie

I'll bet she's collected enough cans to hire a hotshot lawyer.


21 posted on 06/17/2005 6:18:37 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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To: Boston Blackie
"They (doctors) say it's only sprained, but I think it's broken," said Cobb.

Riiight, obviously an experienced scam artist.

"I'm on disability because of my back, and I can't even do my physical therapy."
Cobb said she is unemployed because of her bad back and lives with a boyfriend. She said she does not collect cans often, unless she needs extra cash for gas.

Too disabled to work, but her back is strong enough to dumpster dive.
Sounds like insurance fraud to me.

So9

22 posted on 06/17/2005 6:19:56 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Boston Blackie

Just a thought, if you knew Dick Durbin was in the dumpster and the trash truck arrived to empty it....would you tell the driver about the special trash in said dumpster?


23 posted on 06/17/2005 6:21:15 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Darn right...She's going to lose that disability check.


25 posted on 06/17/2005 6:42:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: 2banana
"It (the Dumpster) is private property. She was trespassing," said O'Connor. "It's kind of ironic, here she is digging for cans in a Dumpster, but yet she has a cell phone."
26 posted on 06/17/2005 6:46:09 AM PDT by ddtorque
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To: Servant of the 9

If she's recovering tin beer cans with a 5 cent deposit AND the dumpster was nearly empty, she was going to wind up with a dollar?? Wonder if this chick has a record??


27 posted on 06/17/2005 6:47:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Boston Blackie

"All clear ... load away"


28 posted on 06/17/2005 6:50:48 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
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To: ddtorque

Wonder what her cell phone records show....like a phone call FROM her boyfriend when the truck pulled up. Who warned the driver that someone was in there...or did she jump out from NEAR the dumpster??


29 posted on 06/17/2005 6:51:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Boston Blackie

Hmmmm..... I wonder what the sticker you see on EVERY dumpster that reads "do not occupy this container for any purpose" means??

She has no case - driver should have pushed the button and saved everybody the hassle.


30 posted on 06/17/2005 6:51:53 AM PDT by TheShaz (Shhhh! We don't want Dean run off yet!!!)
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To: highimpact
Is there another kind of upset that I'm not aware of?

In my college days, I worked in a law firm as a file clerk. One day I came across a letter written by one attorney, and in it was a phrase about how her client had had a vehicular accident in his vehicle.

Another attorney heard me laughing about the ridiculous redundancy, and because I - a lowly file clerk - dared to ridicule one of her class-superior fellow attorneys, I damn near got drummed out of the firm. Wouldn't have been any great loss, but in that job I saw more than my share of unbelievably arrogant humans.

31 posted on 06/17/2005 7:32:51 AM PDT by Marauder (Politicians use words the way a squid uses ink.)
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To: 2banana
If you are dumpster diving for cans, you are pretty close to having no life to start with...

<distraught> All this talk is very, very upsetting to me. </distraught>

32 posted on 06/17/2005 7:53:54 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver

Now, now Dumpsy, no need to get upset. You and I don't dive for anything as boring as cans :-)


33 posted on 06/17/2005 12:34:48 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Sacajaweau

record of very poor grades and attendance would be my best guesses.


34 posted on 06/17/2005 12:39:57 PM PDT by cajun-jack
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To: Boston Blackie

My favorite Boot Camp myth was the story about the Airman and the WAC getting caught "making it" in a dumpster.
(circa 1971)


35 posted on 06/17/2005 12:45:37 PM PDT by G Larry (Honor the fallen and the heroes of 9/11 at the Memorial Site.)
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