Comments on: How to Lose…and Find Your Laptop http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/ A Canadian Take on the Web Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: A Garbageman http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3612 A Garbageman Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:53:58 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3612 This is actually a fairly common happening. We find valuables being thrown out by accident on a regular basis. There have been at least a half dozen times in the past year or so that that we have dug through a 12 to 15 ton load of garbage to find the following: - a minister's wedding band (that was a tough one) - a retiree's set of golf clubs - sensitive legal documents (ongoing cases no less!) - a bag of puppies (yes, they lived) - many Christmas gifts accidentally tossed with the wrappings As far as the legality of going through anothers garbage...our community says that once you place it on the right-of-way for pick up...it is fair game. Most all of my garbagemen are honest, hard working men (I do have one woman driver). Every now and then there is a "bad apple" as with any group of people and we work to remove that individual. Customer service and the "Golden Rule" are what we live by. We are city employees and not driven by profit. This is actually a fairly common happening. We find valuables being thrown out by accident on a regular basis. There have been at least a half dozen times in the past year or so that that we have dug through a 12 to 15 ton load of garbage to find the following:
- a minister’s wedding band (that was a tough one)
- a retiree’s set of golf clubs
- sensitive legal documents (ongoing cases no less!)
- a bag of puppies (yes, they lived)
- many Christmas gifts accidentally tossed with the wrappings
As far as the legality of going through anothers garbage…our community says that once you place it on the right-of-way for pick up…it is fair game.
Most all of my garbagemen are honest, hard working men (I do have one woman driver). Every now and then there is a “bad apple” as with any group of people and we work to remove that individual. Customer service and the “Golden Rule” are what we live by. We are city employees and not driven by profit.

]]> By: Jonathon http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3610 Jonathon Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:22:37 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3610 I hope a nice reward was paid to the garbage men... give them the credit they deserve! I hope a nice reward was paid to the garbage men… give them the credit they deserve!

]]> By: Shaun http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3582 Shaun Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:05:40 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3582 I'm shocked that those guys are returning the laptop. Not to say that there aren't honest people out there, but I'm just as amazed as you are that they actually came through! But I have to wonder... why were the garbage men looking through the suitcase left outside? Isn't there a law against going through someone else's trash? Just saying... :) I’m shocked that those guys are returning the laptop. Not to say that there aren’t honest people out there, but I’m just as amazed as you are that they actually came through!

But I have to wonder… why were the garbage men looking through the suitcase left outside? Isn’t there a law against going through someone else’s trash?

Just saying… :)

]]> By: Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3536 Mark Evans Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:32:49 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3536 Yes, they're obviously good guys - very impressed. Yes, they’re obviously good guys - very impressed.

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3531 Chris Garrett Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:15:05 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/03/09/how-to-loseand-find-your-laptop/#comment-3531 Those are some honest garbage men. They could have just as easily claimed ignorance and pocketed it. I believe over here the law is your lose ownership once the garbage men have picked up an item left "discarded" - I hear stories of people leaning their bike against bins and finding it gone with no way to get it back other than buy it. Those are some honest garbage men. They could have just as easily claimed ignorance and pocketed it. I believe over here the law is your lose ownership once the garbage men have picked up an item left “discarded” - I hear stories of people leaning their bike against bins and finding it gone with no way to get it back other than buy it.

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