At least, in Colorado. And that's if you happen to be stealing from it a dumpster behind a produce market.
Two men, Giles Charle and David Siller, took 5 cucumbers, 4 apricots, 2 bundles of asparagus spears and a handful of cherries from a garbage dumpster behind the Sweet Pea Produce Market in Steamboat Springs, Colorado on their way to the city's annual family gathering. Tey will be spending six months in jail.
So much for Mom's lectures about eating all your fruits and veggies!
19-02-2006 @ 12:39PM
You know, that's both sad and disturbing at the same time. Homeless people subsist by dumpster diving all over this country. It's a shame to jail anyone for being a human recycler of other people's waste.
On the other hand, an uncle of mine had a mom-and-pop grocery in Ojai, California in the Fifties and Sixties. There was a group of people who looked like hippies who would raid his dumpsters nearly every day. Uncle never said a word to anyone about it. Eventually, the group moved on ... and murdered Sharon Tate. They were Charles Manson's gang.
One never knows who's dining al fresco in the alleys of our nation.
2So shameful...........people work hard and still are going hungry. They werent stealing from the store, It was the garbage for gods sake. If you put out garbage on the curb or a broken appliance and someone decided to take it,would you feel the need to call 911????????they let murders and child molesters go, and lock up the innocent, hungry and the needy! Wow.........
5i had some friends that would regularly 'dumpster dive' at trader joe's. it was amazing what they would throw out. if you ever go to the store near closing time, you'll see some guy with a cart go to the refrigerated section, and toss out sausages, sushi, cheese, pizza dough, deli meats, fruits and vegetables, and the like. they would also throw out all the bouquets of flowers for they day.
my friends would come home with probably $50 worth of food, and their place looked like a flower shop! it just amazes me how wasteful these stores can be.
69-04-2006 @ 2:19PM
Readers can take action to get the dumpster-divers released from the Steamboat Springs jail. Please sign the Hunger Is Not A Crime Petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/colofree/petition.html
The Free Siller and Charle web page is here:
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/coloradofreedom.html
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