"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:51:13 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
wrote:

"Steve" wrote in message
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On 2011-04-05 12:49:59 -0400, "dadiOH" said:

If you lived in central Florida you could just put it out by the street
and someone would steal it within a couple of hours. I get rid of all
sorts of stuff that way, gotta drag an old fiberglass jon boat that
someone left on my property down there pretty soon.

Things are tough all over -- today was trash day (we have recycling
pick-up every OTHER week) and I noticed a heavily-laden old Chevy pickup
truck cruising the cans on my street. Not the first time, either!

(N.B. I've got plenty of partcle board for disposable jigs from a
entertainment center somebody left on the street, too -- just not from
MY
neighborhood. GRIN)

Toledo Ohio about late 1960s we'd get an "all you can drag to the curb
day"
a few times a year. Folks would be out all night cruising neighborhoods
with
a kid hanging out a window spotlighting the curb.

I cruised the trashcans as a kid on the Air Force base. The AF gave
the families a weight limit and they tossed all sorts of good stuff
into the trash when they moved.

My sole problem with it was that time the yellow jacket crawled into
the little teapot I got for my sister. I put it in my pocket and a
minute later, it had stung me 4 times on the inside of my upper arm
and 5 times on the ribs. Mom rushed me to the hospital in case I was
allergic and some brilliant asshole intern dunked me in a tub of ice
water. When the doctor came in he screamed "Get that kid out of the
ice RIGHT NOW! If he'd been allergic, he'd have been dead before he
got here."


I was in the USAF and was a medic ...