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http://www.theguardian.com/uk

jollyroger — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:01:07 +0000

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-ac...

here's that case from London where three men tried to access the dumpsters that were, as you describe locked up overnight. They were facing some stiff jail time, but the case was dismissed.

What a shining bit of humane

jollyroger — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:57:33 +0000

In reply to There's a homemade bread shop

What a shining bit of humane behavior--without cost to the generous, life sustaining withal. Certainly makes one wonder why the supermarkets that Moemoe cites opt for the non-humane alternative.

There's a homemade bread shop

ocean-kat — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 04:42:16 +0000

In reply to You don't dumpster dive in

There's a homemade bread shop in Ithaca NY that puts its old bread etc. on a picnic table behind the store at closing. Anything still there when they open in the morning gets thrown in the dumpster then. Ithaca is a very hip town in many ways and a great place to live.

oopsie, caps lock and

jollyroger — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:32:04 +0000

In reply to I didn't mean to make you

oopsie, caps lock and unfamiliar font...

I didn't mean to make you

trkingmomoe — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:20:33 +0000

In reply to i KNEW THAT CRIMINALIZING

I didn't mean to make you shout. It is Florida, some towns had tried to outlaw feeding the poor by handing out food to them on the street. Then arrested people for doing that but found it hard to prosecute them. There are towns that will buy a bus ticket to get a homeless person to leave or escort them to the next town. My neighborhood ended up with the ones that were run out of Sarasota. There are people who are afraid that all the homeless in the country will come to Florida to stay out of the cold so they do stuff like this. The truth is most of the them are locals that have fallen on hard times.

i KNEW THAT CRIMINALIZING

jollyroger — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:35:38 +0000

In reply to You don't dumpster dive in

i KNEW THAT CRIMINALIZING FEEDING PEOPLE FOR FREE (i'M NOT SURE HOW THE RESPONSIBLE AUTHORITIES WERE ABLE TO DISCERN WHEN ENFORCING THESE ORDINANCES THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE RECEIVING SUSTENANCE WERE, IN FACT, WITHOUT HOUSING, BUT SOIT) TO KEEP THEM OUT OF PUBLIC SPACES, EG, PARKS, WAS DIRECTED AT DISPERSAL OF THE DISENFRANCHISED, BUT i HADN'T SEEN (IN THIS COUNTRY, AT ANY RATE--THERE WAS A RECENT FAMOUS LONDON CASE) A SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT TO DENY THEM ACCESS TO GARBAGE--AFTER ALL, WHEN A DUMPSTER DIVER IS DONE DIVING, THE VALUE OF THE DUMPTSTER HAS INCREASED--THERE'S MORE ROOM FOR THE PERSON WHO IS BUYING ROOM FOR HIS GARBAGE TO PUT IN MORE GARBAGE. wIN-WIN-WIN (THE LAST WIN IS US CUZ THE LANDFILL IS ALSO LESS FULL...)

You don't dumpster dive in

trkingmomoe — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:20:00 +0000

In reply to I had a friend who described

You don't dumpster dive in this town because the stores keep them locked at night.The roll-off garbage trucks only do pickups during store hours now. They claim it is to keep the homeless safe. The truth is they see the homeless on the same level of stray cats and think they will go away if there is no food source.

I had a friend who described

jollyroger — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:57:52 +0000

In reply to I have a close relative in

I had a friend who described himself as a "free-gan", doing as much foraging in supermarket dumpsters at close of business as he could, on principle, at least partly to rescue otherwise land fill bound food.

jollyroger — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:55:41 +0000

In reply to I see plenty of pan handling

the funds dried up for the food pantries

Yes, this is the dreadful inference that I draw from the proliferation of people asking for food, where before most requests focused on cash.

this NYT piece I just read is

artappraiser — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 07:50:15 +0000

In reply to Thanks for sharing that story

this NYT piece I just read is kinda along the same lines....

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