Attention garbage dumpers:

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Particularly the person who had been dumping their trash by our dumpster, because dumpster. and now that the dumpster's gone they're leaving it by our plastic bales outside:

Dumping your garbage on somebody else's property is wrong and stupid. It's even more stupid when the garbage you're leaving includes intact junk mail with your name and address on it.

This information has been given to the police. Thought you should know.

[dalesys]

I cannot tell a lie, Officer Obie. I *put* that envelope under that half-a-ton of garbage!

[Racket_Man]

I cannot tell a lie, Officer Obie. I *put* that envelope under that half-a-ton of garbage!

DID that also include 27 8x10 color glossy photos with circles and arrow and a paragraph on the back of each describing what it was to be use as evidence against you??????

[dalesys]

... evidence against you?

... and the plaster of Paris dog-sniffing prints...

[CyberLurch]

Break out the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction....

[LillFilly]

People dumped trash at my mall all the time. I found a full trash bag around a corner of the building; you had to walk it from your car, no way it could fall out. I donned gloves and found steak wrappers and frozen shrimp bags along with personal mail and magazines. Called the police and reported it. They actually found the person and this middle-aged lady comes driving into the parking lot and sees me in the security vehicle. She starts screaming about how the police told her she needed to pick up some trash or she'd be cited for dumping, going on and on about how it wasn't her trash. She then says 'I'm on disability! I can't afford steak and shrimp!'

i hadn't told the police or her what was in the bag! She took her bag and drove away, and I tailed her to make sure she left with it!

They never thought it was a big deal, especially if we had a dumpster for a special project. I always explained that they were making US pay to get rid of their garbage and to be adults!

[RealUnimportant]

We used to have dumpsters at work but the nearby blocks of flats kept leaving their stuff all around them, and occasionally in them if there was any space. To get the council off our backs for the mess, we had to make offsite arrangements for garbage storage & removal, and the station cleaners have to ferry trash bags back & forth on our trains which is delightful for both them and our customers...

Of course, this isn't the end to the story, because people. No, the residents now dump their trash where the dumpsters used to be, on the principle that it's the spot they've always used so why change? We're no longer on the hook for it so we don't get in any trouble, but the street sweepers have to come by daily just to deal with the extra mess! Any time I see someone doing it, I tell them it's illegal and if their landlords aren't supplying proper facilities they need to talk to them about it, and they just look at me funny & drag their bags further up the road.

[wordgirl]

My landlord had a dumpster delivered to my front yard one Thursday, because he was tearing down a decrepit shed in the back yard.

He told me I could put some stuff in there too, but asked that I wait because he planned to tear down the shed Saturday and would probably need all the capacity in the dumpster. (The rental was for one month but they would pick up and empty the dumpster as many times as needed during that month.)

Saturday I hear him rustling around outside and then I hear cursing. So I poke my head out. And guess what? The damn thing was half-full. There was an old TV in there, a mattress set, many bags of trash. It wasn't too hard to figure out who did it - we have a lot of nice neighbors but there were papers in there that identified the Phantom Dumper as one of the crappy ones -- but what I really wonder is how PD got his crap together and into the dumpster so fast?

Landlord went over there all "what the heck" and the guy's excuse? "I didn't know it was your dumpster." So it was OK for him to use it because he thought it was mine? He sure knew it wasn't his.

Fortunately, the dumpster company was able to send a truck out and bring it back in time for landlord to demolish the shed ... and they took that away on Monday and brought the dumpster back one more time. Some of the nice neighbors did ask if they could also put stuff in there, which was fine once there was room. But the presumption of PD still had my jaw dropping.

This was not the last time, either. When he was having some major work done in his backyard, he didn't want to take down a section of his front fence to let them in the property, so he told them to take down a section of MY fence, drive their trucks through my side yard and access his yard that way. Fortunately, I was home and the workers knocked on my door to make sure that was OK. NO IT WAS NOT! The workers said he told them I was "just a renter" and that he had permission from landlord to access the property - which of course he didn't.

[LillFilly]

Wow wordgirl, can you imagine what you would have come home to if you hadn't been there!!!

[notalwaysright]

In the bigger city near my parents you absolutely have to get a dumpster with a locking lid. No, it won't stop people from leaving things near the dumpster, but it really does cut down on general dumping. Then there are the people who get a recycling dumpster and are told exactly what is allowed to be put in it. Then they put in DOZENS of old tires, which gets noticed, and they are charged accordingly. And they call to ask about the charge on their bill... Um, it specifies very clearly what the charge is for. We don't haul garbage. (my parents have two businesses, one is a recycling drop box service which they are trying to sell because it's a giant pain, the other is roofing)

What I hated when I lived at home were the people who would dump trash on the side of the street. It was a really pretty back road, all twisty with hills with old trees. People would just pull over and throw their trash down the hill where the bag would break or raccoons would get into it. Those people are trash themselves, and I hope karma gets them someday.

[Sparklyturtle]

When I was clearing out my late aunt's house I rented a dumpster, and had no problems with it. We kept needing to have it emptied but it wasn't because of the neighbors; it was because people from my family had lived in that house since the mid 1930s (this was 2012) and there was a ton of junk in the house. The part of me that does genealogies was thrilled to find old diaries and papers from my great-grandparents and my great-great grandfather, but the part of me that had to wade through and shred tons of medical records from now-deceased family members plus tons of other paperwork was not thrilled.

[wordgirl]

Wow wordgirl, can you imagine what you would have come home to if you hadn't been there!!!

Yep. I would think that most contractors would not go through someone else's yard without permission from that someone else, but if I hadn't been there, I wouldn't have put it past crappy neighbor to go ahead and take the fence down himself.

Fortunately he's been gone a few years and the couple in that house now are no-see'ums. There are cars in the driveway from time to time, but they're never outside and I don't think I would recognize them if I saw them.

[KellyHabersham]

We used to have a "Phantom Dumper' at the library - every so often, staff would arrive for the day, to find baked beans and macaroni spilled on the ground outside our dumpsters. I don't think it was ever found out who was responsible, but the weird thing was, it was always just baked beans and macaroni that they dumped.

[Food Lady]

I cannot tell a lie, Officer Obie. I *put* that envelope under that half-a-ton of garbage!

One of my favorite songs of all time.

[Trixie]

We used to have someone dump loaves of bread into out outside trashcans. It was enough to take up most of the can. It wasn't one of our vendors since it wasn't a brand we sold. And just the other day there was a truck tire in our parking lot. Whoever left it was considerate enough that they put in on the grass instead of the blacktop.