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"HeyBub" wrote:

J. Clarke wrote:

Get a job?

So what kind of job does someone in his eighties who has been retired
for twenty years get?

* Medical experimentation?
* Not much skill required to panhandle.
* Here's one that's a hoot. I read about a guy who picked up a large trash
bag full of crap from a retail store's parking lot. Took about an hour. He
then took the bag to the manager and offered to sell him the bag of trash
for $20. If the manager was not inclined to go for the deal, the man said
he'd be glad to put the trash back where he found it.

#3: Good one!

You gotta be careful about that some places. That trash is valuable! Ya
can get arrested for stealing it!

Some locales support the idea that anything on property belongs to the
property owner and can only be legally collected by his permission. It's
applied to dumpster-diving, so it's not unthinkable it might be applied
to collecting trash.

Scrap metal is just about always treated so.

Besides, you'd be putting some poor illegal immigrant outta work.