Stolen trashcan

[gfretwell]

Oh you mean she is a politician.

[limeylew]

On my street, Wednesday is trash day.

Since it is often windy, here in Texas, it's not unusual for other people's trash can to blow into my yard.

If they are still in my yard on Monday I keep them. NO, they don't have street numbers painted on them.

Lewis.

*****

[h]

Not all politicians are idiots.

[CWLee]

"Oren" wrote that his trash can was missing.

Whenever I have purchased (or had issued to me by my local government) a trash can I have taken two spray paint cans with contrasting colors, and marked the can up, all over, in a pretty distinctive manner. If it does blow away I can identify it visually several hundred feet away. None of them have ever gone missing, but if one did, and I suspected theft, I'd just drive around my neighborhood on trash day looking for it.

Of course if the thief lives more than a couple of miles away I probably won't find it for a few weeks, if ever.

[JIMMIE]

Where I live you have to turn YOUR serial numbered trash can in when you move or pay for it. When I moved I had the wrong can. Apparently the garbage collectors had mixed the one up on my street. I thought they were going to call the police for having the wrong can. Anyway I went back home and checked with a couple od neighbors and found my can and called called the rude city employee's boss. When I went back I was treated very differently from the first time I was there. Many apologies were given. However as I walked out the door I heard some one refer to me as an SOB. That made me feel especially good as I knew that someones butt had been well chewed.

Jimmie

[Hell Toupee]

Well, where I live the commie socialist garbage haulers all issue their customers their very own trash cans. So nobody has to steal one because they get theirs free from their garbage hauler.

[ktos]

Oren wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Don't use a trash can. Tell your trash hauler you need to sign up for the toter on wheels. Nobody wants to steal that. Your trash can was too pretty.

[Doug Miller]

Got a cite for that?

[aemeijers]

Oren wrote: (snip)

Unless you have a badge and a warrant, the only answer you are likely to get is 'kiss my ass', punctuated by the door hitting you in the face. certainly wouldn't show receipts to some random soul on my doorstep. If they think I have something of theirs, call a cop.

Now having said that, if one blew into my yard, I may knock on a few nearby doors and ask if they are missing one, or stake it down in my front yard with a 'found' sign on it....

-- aem sends...

[AZ Nomad]

Garbage men probably tossed it in retaliation from being mouthed off at.

[Phisherman]

Paint your trashcan dayglow pink or rainbow stripes. Nobody will steal it.

[HeyBub]

In fairness to Obama, the Democrats DID have 57 entities sending delegates to the Democratic National Convention. They were:

• The fifty states, of course,

• D.C.,

• American Somoa,

• U.S. Virgin Islands,

• Puerto Rico,

• er, Patagonia,

• Rhodesia, and

• Narnia.

He just misspoke the word "state" when he meant "places of no consequence."

As for Palin and East/West Korea, it never happened.

[The Daring Dufas]

Of course folks who voted for BeeHO believe that Sarah Palin said: "I can see Russia from my house."

TDD

[Noahbuddy]

"HeyBub" wrote in news:zaydnWbWu5HjINLWnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Well, she can see Russia from her house. What an an internationalist! Plus, she reads magazines, "all of them".

She's always the victim...

[bud--]

I think it is a misquote from a new book on the 2008 election ("Game Change"). Also from an interview with the top campaign strategist from the McCain campaign last sunday on 60 Minutes. The strategist said "after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea." Certainly that is different from thinking it was E and W, but IMHO not by much.

The strategist also said "She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that." And asked why she wasn't nervous after being asked to be McCain's vice president she said "No, it's God's plan."

I don't think it was widely reported, but after the election the Fox 'News' chief political correspondent revealed he learned from the McCain camp that Palin "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than ... a country just in itself."

[The Daring Dufas]

Do you really think she said "I can see Russia from my house."? You must think Tina Fey and Sarah Palin are the same person.

TDD

[Van Chocstraw]

Put a RFID tag on the next one and see if you can locate and arrest the moron.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Where I live, the private garbage hauler contracted by the township issues everybody their very own garbage cans. So nobody has to steal one because they get theirs free from the garbage hauler.

The truck can pick up the can itself, thus saving the hauler personnel costs.

Cindy Hamilton

[norminn]

Don't understand? How about a crazy bitch in line to be POTUS? Knowing nothing about international relations (as in, "We saved your asses...go to hell.) has ceased to disqualify contenders, so it has gotten down to personalities. I'd much rather have someone who lies about their sex life than just a plain crazy.....Sarah had at least four good reasons not to accept the VPcy...a special-needs baby who also is more likely to get diseases in exposure to crowds. A pregnant daughter with a marriage imminent whose situation logically should not be in national media. The child she bore is now living in distance from it's father. She proves over and over she has no ability to judge critical situations. One wonders what function Sarah's "husband" serves in her family, aside from the biological one...fueling snowmobiles and cleaning hunting rifles? Yuuuuuuuck!!

[The Daring Dufas]

Actually, we expect Democrats to lie, cheat and steal. When they exercise bad judgment, no big deal, reelect them, perhaps they'll do a better job next term. *snicker*

TDD