Strange Wasters

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 2:35 pm

What is the most bizaare thing that you have seen thrown away, be it in a skip or a bin.

My personal favourite is a drivable lawn mower, i am not sure how they even got it in there.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 2:55 pm

Ok - do we get profound and say something like a future? Or do I remember being without a pc when my then employer was binning them big time - they would not sell them for security reason

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 3:13 pm

I once passed by a container full of mannequins. That looked really weird, arms and legs pointing in all directions.

Word · Post by **Word** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 3:25 pm

I once saw a trash can in a trash can and i thought that was weird.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 4:03 pm

A homeless person.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 4:21 pm

That was mean Fable... Very untasteful.

I've seen fridge in a trash bin once...

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 4:45 pm

Originally posted by Aegis:
[QB]That was mean Fable... Very untasteful.

I agree, it is distasteful--but don't abuse the messenger. Go after societies that refuse to build homeless shelters, or (as in the USA, during Reagan's tenure) refused funding to mental institutions for non-competents without families who weren't mentally above the age of seven, and couldn't hold down jobs, retain information, or even visit existing shelters on their own. These people were summarily thrown out on the streets. The homeless population in NYC during the first Reagan term jumped more than five times. Several homeless died of exposure on the street outside the White House one cold winter night, ironically after Uncle Ron had made his famous speech declaring that nobody in America need go without a job.

The homeless *are* the castaways of society. When they have to live in garbage bins in large numbers, rather than the occasional individual who does it out of choice, something is wrong with the society. Ignore it if you will. I don't.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 5:02 pm

Okay, when you explain your post, it makes sense. I thought you were posting it as a joke. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 5:12 pm

No problem.

I would never joke about human beings, @Aegis. They're too fragile and precious.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 5:31 pm

@Fable: I didn't think it was a joke for a second. I've seen homeless people just about everywhere, execept for a trash bin.

A side note: (sorry for spamming up your thread, Sleep) As you know, I've travelled a lot, and the only "civilized" place I've been to where there were no homeless people, was the United Arab Emirates. This is because the rich princes build houses where people can move in for free. Now, I'd like to see something like that happen in the Western world

Crassus · Post by **Crassus** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 6:58 pm

A few years ago at the British Open, one of the major tournaments of men's golf, a French golfer named Jean van de Velde threw away a large lead on the 18th hole of the final round. Going into the 18th hole, IIRC, he had a three stroke lead over three other golfers. He played the 18th hole in what most golf fans would call an absurdly stupid fashion, the details of which I won't bore anyone with, and lost his lead. He then went into a playoff with the other three golfers which he proceeded to lose.

In golf at least, it was one of the most painful and saddest things one can see.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 8:30 pm

A waste... Of sorts of suppose...

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 8:54 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
This is because the rich princes build houses where people can move in for free. Now, I'd like to see something like that happen in the Western world

There's plenty of people in the western world that get a check every month in the mail which they use to pay for housing, in some cases buying homes.

The weirdest thing I've seen in relation to trash was one place i lived in where no matter what you put out by the trash - old broken stove, pieces of a bookcase, broken refrigerator - people would come and take it before the trash collectors would even get there.

[ 10-05-2001: Message edited by: THE JAKER ]

EMINEM · Post by **EMINEM** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:11 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
[QB
A side note: (sorry for spamming up your thread, Sleep) As you know, I've travelled a lot, and the only "civilized" place I've been to where there were no homeless people, was the United Arab Emirates. This is because the rich princes build houses where people can move in for free. Now, I'd like to see something like that happen in the Western world [/QB]

Yeah, and I'd like to see something called a Bill of Rights guaranteeing certain freedoms (ie. expression, religion) implemented in the United Arab Emirates.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:23 pm

Originally posted by THE JAKER:
The weirdest thing I've seen in relation to trash was one place i lived in where no matter what you put out by the trash - old broken stove, pieces of a bookcase, broken refrigerator - people would come and take it before the trash collectors would even get there.

That's how we got one of our sofas(which my Uncle reapolstered(sp?)), a mattress and boxspring, as well as other stuff; most of which we no longer have.

The strangest thing I've seen thrown away...hmm...well, I've, on many occasions, seen underwear lying in the middle of the road. And no, they weren't mine.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:45 pm

Originally posted by EMINEM:
Yeah, and I'd like to see something called a Bill of Rights guaranteeing certain freedoms (ie. expression, religion) implemented in the United Arab Emirates.

Actually, freedom of religion *is* guaranteed under the UAE Constitution. It is also rigorously enforced, because the UAE wants no problems with its Christian and Hindustani trading partners who do business, there. Freedom of speech, however, is definitely curtailed.

However, you are welcome to ask a shivering beggar dying in some alleyway of a Western metropolis whether he prefers having a home, free medical treatment, food and a few more years of life--or the ability to call in and complain about the government on some radio talk program.

Ideally one has both, but we don't live in an ideal world. In the US, the UK, France, Germany, etc, we seem to value personal, frequently abstract freedoms more than social justice; in some nations, the reverse is the case. Which packet is of greater importance? I can't honestly choose between these two sets of values, given the way things frequently work out with the lack of either in the real world. This is not a question with any easy answers, it seems. Few questions worth asking have answers like that.

[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: fable ]

KillerKid · Post by **KillerKid** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:53 pm

i would say the oddest thing i ever saw was the lives of every spammer in game banshee who threw their life away in that trash can

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 10:05 pm

Originally posted by KillerKid:
i would say the oddest thing i ever saw was the lives of every spammer in game banshee who threw their life away in that trash can

Doesn't one have to have a life before one can throw it away?

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sat Oct 06, 2001 8:45 am

I once saw a dolls house in a bin at our local tip - it looked brand new. The irony was I had just bought my daughter the same dolls house in a sale for £50

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Sat Oct 06, 2001 9:05 am

Money, I found five hundred dollars in the trash once.