I saw a homeless guy poking around my neighbor's trash.

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As I was leaving for work this morning (around 7:30AM), I saw a homeless guy with a bike rummaging through my neighbor's recyclables for soda cans. I gave him a look, but didn't do anything about it and went about my business. My question is, should I have done something? I am planning on talking to my neighbor and informing him of what I saw, but I don't know if confronting a big homeless guy when nobody else is around would be a good idea. I guess I could have called the cops, but IDK if I'd get laughed at for a report of "homeless guy rummaging through someone else's trash"
 
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krunchykrome

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I understand the way you feel about this; I'd probably feel the same way.

The thing is that once it's on the sidewalk, it's public property...or so I've heard.
 
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So

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Originally posted by: isekii
Does it really bother you that much ?
it's trash~
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Well, it's not the trash, it's the idea that the homeless might start to think my neighborhood is a safe haven. Then we're infested.

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I understand the way you feel about this; I'd probably feel the same way.

The thing is that once it's on the sidewalk, it's public property...or so I've heard.
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We don't actually have sidewalks though. :p
 
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sonambulo

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Originally posted by: SoMy question is, should I have done something?
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Yes. You should have called the police to come and save you from that big scary man! He was hauling away all your valuable antique bottles and cans and you were powerless to stop him! Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Do you live in the suburbs? If you do, then 'the homeless masses' aren't going to think your neighborhood is a safe haven and infest it. He was there to look for bottles and leave. Get over yourself.
 
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Sukhoi

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The police will definitely come out, at least they do around here. The city relies on the income from recycling to fund the program.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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i would tell him or call the cops.

even though he is probably harmless, having homeless people rummaging around my neighborhood is something i'd rather not have to deal with.
 
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So

Lifer
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Originally posted by: sonambulo
Originally posted by: SoMy question is, should I have done something?
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Yes. You should have called the police to come and save you from that big scary man! He was hauling away all your valuable antique bottles and cans and you were powerless to stop him! Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Do you live in the suburbs? If you do, then 'the homeless masses' aren't going to think your neighborhood is a safe haven and infest it. He was there to look for bottles and leave. Get over yourself.
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I live <2mi from the center of downtown (definitely a bunch of homeless there) in a house.
 
MotionMan

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Tell your neighbor to start recycling?
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It was his recyclable bins.
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At least where I live, it is illegal to take items out of the recyclables bin. The items place therein are for the city (who gets $$$ for them). It is not free game like things placed in the trash or cuttings bin.

BTW, I know that one of the reasons I paid what I did for my house was to not be near the homeless. If I see one in the area, I call the cops (mostly because most homeless people are also unstable, tend to commit property crimes and tend to become violent when confronted and they certainly do not "live" around here).

Call me stuck up, but if I wanted to live near the homeless, I would move downtown.

MotionMan
 
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Originally posted by: MotionMan
Call me stuck up, but if I wanted to live near the homeless, I would move downtown.
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I think the homeless people are thinking the same thing.
 
dainthomas

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Originally posted by: MotionMan
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Tell your neighbor to start recycling?
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It was his recyclable bins.
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At least where I live, it is illegal to take items out of the recyclables bin. The items place therein are for the city (who gets $$$ for them). It is not free game like things placed in the trash or cuttings bin.

BTW, I know that one of the reasons I paid what I did for my house was to not be near the homeless. If I see one in the area, I call the cops (mostly because most homeless people are also unstable, tend to commit property crimes and tend to become violent when confronted and they certainly do not "live" around here).

Call me stuck up, but if I wanted to live near the homeless, I would move downtown.

MotionMan
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OK, I will.

I'll also call you un-American because it's still a free country and people can go wherever the hell they want, whether or not they have a permanent residence or meet your hygiene standards.
 
bigrash

bigrash

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I see those old asian people going through my trash all the time. If I called the cops, they'd probably laugh at me and give me a nice beatdown for wasting their time.
 
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jonks

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Originally posted by: bigrash
I see those old asian people going through my trash all the time. If I called the cops, they'd probably laugh at me and give me a nice beatdown for wasting their time.
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If they're not doing anything illegal, what could the cops do?
 
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Mr Pickles

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Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: MotionMan
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Tell your neighbor to start recycling?
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It was his recyclable bins.
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At least where I live, it is illegal to take items out of the recyclables bin. The items place therein are for the city (who gets $$$ for them). It is not free game like things placed in the trash or cuttings bin.

BTW, I know that one of the reasons I paid what I did for my house was to not be near the homeless. If I see one in the area, I call the cops (mostly because most homeless people are also unstable, tend to commit property crimes and tend to become violent when confronted and they certainly do not "live" around here).

Call me stuck up, but if I wanted to live near the homeless, I would move downtown.

MotionMan
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OK, I will.

I'll also call you un-American because it's still a free country and people can go wherever the hell they want, whether or not they have a permanent residence or meet your hygiene standards.
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He is stuck up. You are dead wrong. People can't go wherever the hell they want. Trash is still your property. Its being stored in your container. Stop calling someone looking through trash homeless as if owning a home has anything to do with looking through trash.

You can't objectively view this with facts and standards. Believe it or not, being that this case is about humans, we might want to inject a little fucking humanity into all of this. Granted, people cannot legally carouse your things, but it doesn't hurt anyone or anything. It doesn't negatively affect you in any way. You may think it does, you may want to believe it does, you may make up stupid reasons as to why it does, you may even profile a man looking through trash in the same way you probably profile a black man running down the street, but it doesn't negatively affect you any more than him looking through your trash affects me.

OP: Are you so detached from society that you believe seeing one "homeless" person warrants a thread? As if it was chupacabra or something. Live a little dude...
 
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