Sivy
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.If you take something that is not yours - you are stealing. If you walk onto someone property and take something that is not yours you are trespassing and stealing.
These are fairly simple things to apply to your daily life - However you want to justify it is the basis of your own moral code.
Another example of how celebrities and athletes are treated different than everyone else in the public eye.
When you put something in the trash, it's no longer yours. That makes a big difference in the situation.
What a wonderful, moving story; some sh!tstain of an ex con steals, profits off of it and has some do gooder pay off his debt.
What a wonderful world we live in where all you have to do when you are found guilty of a crime is have a rag like the Herald make front page news out of it and some sap will come running to your rescue.
Terrific.
When you put something in the trash, it's no longer yours. That makes a big difference in the situation.
When you put something in the trash, it's no longer yours. That makes a big difference in the situation.
Greenwald must have never heard of worthy causes like Dana Farber, Children's Hospital, or Shriner's Burn Center to name a few. Interesting how the publicity whore made sure his name made it into the paper. An old aging Greyhound is more deserving of help than this beggar ex-con.
First of all, it wasn't trash, it was personal property left outside Brady's door by a deliveryman.
Second, legally when you put something in the trash it is still yours until it's hauled away (like PatJew said.) I used to work as a phone agent for a company here that sells Wisconsin cheese, meat, candy, etc. by mail (don't ask me how they deliver it without it spoiling); and there was a big warning in the employee handbook about how anyone caught going through the trash for stuff would be charged with theft (and any employee who did it would be fired.)
Also, I liked this reader comment at the end of the Herald story linked above:
Two, the employement situation is not relevent. The concern your former employer had is that an employee would throw out saleable merchadise and then retrieve it from the trash later, if employees were permitted to dumpster dive. It would be this from of embezzlement the company was worried about and that would be theft. Random person taking cheese from the dumpster is not theft.
Um, I worked there and I read the thing - ANYBODY who took stuff out of the trash would be arrested. I could get a copy of it and post a scan if you want.
Um, I worked there and I read the thing - ANYBODY who took stuff out of the trash would be arrested. I could get a copy of it and post a scan if you want.
Maybe if it's on the sidewalk. But if the "trash" is on your property it is still 100% yours and no one has the right to come on your property and take it.
When you put something in the trash, it's no longer yours. That makes a big difference in the situation.
Two things.
One, if you put it the trash, it is not yours. It is abandoned and if someone else takes it, that is not theft. Could be a tresspass to property, if your garbage pails are on your property, if they are on the curb or in a common area it is perfectly legal.......