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Title: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: robotvisionary on July 10, 2007, 12:01:47 AM
Admin-

 ??? Ive got a question for you isn't it illegal to search in other peoples grabage is in a neighborhood. Because people through out social security numbers, credit cards etc. Ive once heard that searching though others people garbage cans is a federal law and that it is illegal.  ???



 ??? Just a question. ???


admin edit: I changed subject to something more useful than 'hey admin'
Title: Re: Hey admin
Post by: Eco19R on July 10, 2007, 12:13:08 AM
Theres a difference between asking if you can have an old pieces of electronics they throw out and sneaking up and searching through there garbage bin during the night.
Title: Re: Hey admin
Post by: robotvisionary on July 10, 2007, 12:14:29 AM
Yeah but i meant was sneaking to take them without asking. I know that asking is legal way to search in the garbage.
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: ed1380 on July 10, 2007, 08:11:30 AM
 I've seen in movies teh fbi do it  :-[
IMO you'll find better stuff in dumpsters of electronics stoers maybe
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: robotvisionary on July 10, 2007, 08:34:08 AM
No but apart from movies. Movies are fictional to the real world.
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: roboplane2.0 on July 10, 2007, 09:18:05 AM
if you get caught looking through someones, garbage cant you be fined for trespassing?
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: maverick monk on July 10, 2007, 01:08:23 PM
personal garbage... yes thats iliegal, but once its in that big dumpster, it is fair game for all
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: Nyx on July 10, 2007, 03:13:11 PM
I saw something about that on TV... Alot of stores here apparently have dumpsters with compressors, that have some kind of sealing system... Kind of impractical to search through...
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: robotvisionary on July 10, 2007, 10:25:24 PM
I think you can be charge by tresspassing and searching through garbage.
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: S. Karim on July 15, 2007, 12:05:13 PM
im wondering, was anybody really that desperate to search through garbage? lol
Title: Re: searching garbage illegal?
Post by: megaman935 on July 15, 2007, 03:57:37 PM
If I knew it wasn't illegal, and I found a good spot that I could see was full of electrical goodies, Yeah!