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Going Through the Garbage

Posted by michael on from the taking-out-the-trash dept.

frankejames writes "This is a very funny piece on how Portland politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen's garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage (and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play! Read Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs."

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  1. Good Lord! by tempest303 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only 4 troll posts so far, and already their webserver has melted!

    Are they being hosted by that "webserver-on-a-gameboy" guy, or what?

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    1. Re:Good Lord! by AgentTim3 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Haha. And by getting modded up with that sig, you've also melted your own website!

      Ah, the price of being witty on /. :)

  2. GIGO... by cqnn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Garbage In, Garbage Out...

  3. Re:text from site by Mitchell+Mebane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wrong! The *full* text from the site is as follows:

    Error connecting to site

    The Proxomitron couldn't connect to...
    www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
    The site may be busy or the web server may be down.

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  4. Re:Seems to me there is a difference... by Milican · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you seen one of those tampon shredders at Office Max? Or should we all incinerate our trash now too... Going through trash without a warrant in my opinion is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. I am not a lawyer, but I am an American citizen and that is my interpretation.

    JOhn

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  5. Re:I got into a fight with a garbage guy once by litewoheat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its illegal to do the teamster's job of taking away trash. If too many people trash-pick, then there won't be enough jobs for the teamsters. Gotta love those unions.

    If anyone has tradeshow setup experience you'll be nodding your heads right about now

  6. Re:I know I'm too late to be moderated or seen, bu by nathanh · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hypocracy has reached it's peak in the 'land of the free'.

    Hypocracy? WTF is that? A ruling class of syringes?