I'm offended by bums going through my garbage

[quinnox]

I will grab some fast food sometimes at a place downtown and after I'm done I will put in the public trash can on the street and then occasionally if I'm waiting for a bus in the same area I see bums go through the garbage I put my trash in. It really offends me!

Yea, I know some will find it strange but it bothers me and offends me that they are going through my garbage, I didn't put my garbage in there for them to go through it!

I guess the best way to describe it is I feel it is an invasion of my privacy.

I'm editing this because people are getting the wrong impression: I HAVE given money and bought a meal for homeless people before!

This has nothing to do with disliking homeless, ok!!

I just find it offensive, call it strange if you want but that is my feeling.

[meganmonkey]

1. Please tell me you're kidding?!

:rofl:

[quinnox]

7. I'm serious

[meganmonkey]

11. Well then take your garbage with you

and don't throw it away in public!

And maybe try to do something to end hunger!

Geeez, I can't even believe i am having this conversation :wtf:

[FlemingsGhost]

24. This thread is garbage. (n/t)

Flem.

[salin]

26. er... "public" trash can

that is used by the public - and the homeless are part of the public. I agree with you meganmonkey, if someone feels that a hungry person who is desperate enough to have to forage public trashcans to eat, is an "invasion of privacy" than one shouldn't use a public trashcan.

[saskatoon]

25. |You are serious!

If you are then you need to go hungry and homeless and disenfranchised for the rest of your life you selfish, uncaring stupid idiot.

[Dr.Phool]

38. Maybe they were filming another Quizno's commercial

Like the one they aired during the Super Bowl a few years ago.

Guy tosses part of his sandwich in a trash can and keeps walking, while the woman he's with fishes it out and finishes it.

"There's something about Quizno's".

[Radical Activist]

2. Maybe you could

try buying food or other items and giving it to them on a regular basis and ask that they not search through your garbage in exchange? Is that too idealistic?

[Richard Steele]

3. And you know they are only doing it to piss you off...

:sarcasm:

[matcom]

4. so give them $10 so they can get their own

:eyes:

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Good grief ...

"public trash can"

Take your trash home with you.

[buff2]

6. I'm more offended that we live in a country

where people HAVE to pick through garbage to survive.

[hlthe2b]

EXACTLY... isn't that the point? eom

[Cocoa]

8. there oughtta be a law

i tell ya.

[Name removed]

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[OldLeftieLawyer]

10. It's your own damn fault, quinnox

Do what will REALLY piss them off:

eat everything.

THAT will show them, the scavenging bastards.

[Cobalt Violet]

12. Once you discard it it is no longer your. Legally.

:eyes:

[NativeTexan]

13. Exactly....I am much more....

.....offended that we are ruled by an upper-class that could care less if the REST of us had to eat from garbage cans. Just as long as they get their gazillion dollar bonuses, and we don't eat out of THEIR garbage!!

[instantkarma]

14. I'm offended by garbage going through my bum

I'm going to stop eating, starting........................................................

[meganmonkey]

16. Ooooooohhh no you didn't!

:rofl:

:rofl:

I didn't think anything would make me laugh harder than the OP but you did it! :toast:

[Canuckistanian]

15. If they went through your sewage, would you feel the same?

If you're done with it, you're done with it.

[Fridays Child]

17. If it were me, I'd work on letting it go...

...starting, perhaps, with examining why I am offended by it.

[JeffR]

18. It only invades your privacy

If they're on the NSA payroll.

And if this is what you have to complain about, I envy your life.

[Kahuna]

19. Strange reaction, IMO... Afterall, it IS the "public" garbage recepticle..

I could see if it were your own personal recepticle.

[dogday]

20. Invasion of privacy-vs-starvation

yep I can see where you would have a problem with it....

[Danieljay]

21. surely you jest....I'm offended that I live in a country that doesn't take

care of its most vulnerable. Homelessness and hunger run deep in this country that proclaims moral superiority and values as a model for the world. Most of the homeless have mental health issues, addictions, and no access to health care.

I do understand your post could be sarcasm; then again, I'm confronted daily in Portland Oregon by persons holding signs on streetcorners asking for spare change and get a little tired of it.

[quinnox]

23. I'm in Portland too

There are so many homeless nowadays!

[salin]

31. and darn them for using public trash cans!

don't let them eat thrown away food... forget the cake!

:sarcasm:

[Danieljay]

35. Your not at the Urban Grind right now are ya?

Northeast Portland? Perhaps you are the guy or gal over at the other table.

[quinnox]

45. No, I'm at home

[FlemingsGhost]

57. Yes ... You are at *home.* Ponder that statement for moment.

Home. Safe and sound, with a refrigerator in the kitchen, and garbage cans that get emptied every week.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

44. They've even come to Harrison Arkansas

a fellow held a sign "Will Work for Food"-a fellow near my age, clean, but with a haunted look. I think he was a Katrina survivor who was trying to figure out what to do next. His family was in their van by the side of the road. I gave him a buck and wished him well.

[hlthe2b]

22. Yes.. We should just have armed guards shoot 'em!

Damned "low-life" trying to find enough food to survive! How dare they?!


:sarcasm:

i.e., What the hell is wrong with you? :shrug:

[stepnw1f]

27. Twisting Around and Around and Around

"invasion of my privacy"=wiretapping/choice

"public trash"=it doesn't belong to you anymore, it belongs to the public

You should feel bad that you didn't give away "your garbage" to the "bum".

[Name removed]

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[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. I lived in my car through 2 cold ass winters, 8 months total. I didn't

go through garbage, but nonetheless boyyyyy did I resent people like you.

I'll tell ya what. Next time you see one, how bout inviting them in your nice cozy warm home for a meal. How bout that.


On edit: Your edit still didn't cut it. Sorry.

[Rainscents]

30. If I see someone going through the garbage looking for food,

I would had walked over and gave him/she some money and asked to them to buy foods with it.

[Cleita]

32. Bums?

It's not a word I would chose to decribe the unfortunate people who are hungry enough to eat your garbage.

[SmokingJacket]

33. Boy, some people have turned off their irony-detector tonight.

Personally, it really gets on my nerves when poor people wear dirty old clothes. Why should I have to look at that???

:sarcasm: for those who need it!

[Susang]

51. At first I thought he was joking

But he swears he isn't in several posts and even edited his original post for clarification. What's a gal to believe?

[SmokingJacket]

55. He's "joking"...

because if you back out of a sardonic post too quickly, you lose your street cred!

[Susang]

61. If he's "joking", as you believe

He's doing a piss-poor job of it. Unless his joke is to try to fool like-minded DUers into believing that he's a cold-hearted, insensitive jerk.

And before you accuse me of not knowing comedy, realize that I'm married to one. ;-)

[babylonsister]

34. Did you forget your sarcasm icon?

You can't possibly mean that! Invasion of 'your' privacy on public property? What could possibly offend you if someone is hungry, and that's the only way they can go about feeding themselves? :shrug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

36. Does it offend you that people

are so reduced in circumstance that they must go through trash to try and find food? If so, I would suggest you go over to said bum, give him/her a buck and tell him to go get a value meal at the fast food joint. Or do what my late father-in-law would do-go with them and sit down with them while they ate.

[quinnox]

60. I think you are correct

Subconsiously I am offended in the way you describe I believe.

[Moochy]

37. I'm offended at garbage going through my bum

It is none too pleasant to my fundament!

"Once I did wipe me with a gentle-woman's velvet mask, and found it to be good; for the softness of the silk was very voluptuous and pleasant to my fundament. " :rofl:

from Chapter 1.XIII.—How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. What?

Allow me to repeat: What?

[tocqueville]

40. what's really offending

is that you think more of your "privacy" than of the reasons why those people have to through garbage to survive.

[Ioo]

41. This Whole Post Offends me...

This is what I hear...

I am SO well off that sometimes I buy MORE FOOD THAN I CAN EAT. So I throw it away in a public trashcan and hungry people find it and eat it. How dare hungry people eat what I paid for in front of me.

You should be offended that people have to eat from the trash can

[ClayZ]

42. Maybe there is a BIGGER problem to worry about!

[bowens43]

43. Privacy in a public trash can? You have to be kidding.

[undeterred]

46. I assumed "bums" meant people authorized by Bush

I didn't even go the other place.

[bluestateguy]

47. This is how a lot of identity theft takes place

So make sure you shred or tear up any papers with credit card or account numbers on it.

[Susang]

48. You offend easily

Once you throw it away, it no longer belongs to you. People have every right to go through whatever you throw away, particularly in a public trash can. Get over yourself.

I can't get over the feeling that this entire thread is some sort of joke or social experiment. You can't possibly be serious, can you?

[Raydawg1234]

49. a little uptight are we? yeesh. Someone needs to unwind a little.

[KayLaw]

50. Okay, then. . .

. . .I'll call it strange. You know, some of those bums are people who are mentally disabled people who are trying to avoid starvation by eating your trash. I see they're just bums or peasants to you and I can only agree that if it bothers you so to keep them alive by throwing them a few crumbs, you should take your garbage home with you, perhaps to incinerate or bury in your back yard.

[demgurl]

52. Perhaps he went through your garbage because he was offended?

Maybe he was offended that he had not had anything to eat in two days and you would frivolously throw away food that would help him survive for another day.

Perhaps he was offended by a throw away society where if you don't have a suit and job then are not worth anything to anyone.

He may have even been offended by the way society is so self involved that they can not see past their own feelings to help someone else.

Here are the lyrics to a Pink Floyd song. I keep them on my fridge just to remind me every time I reach for something to eat:

"On The Turning Away"

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

[meganmonkey]

53. Regarding your edit

I hope you realize that the problem here is yours, meaning that you need to change your own perspective because what you are feeling is completely irrational, and rather disturbing, at least to me. I am not trying to analyze your psyche, as I am totally unqualified. I am just saying that what bothers you may not be the actual individual going through a trash can, but the greater issue that we HAVE people in this country who NEED to go through trash cans to eat.

Do some volunteer work, it'll make you feel better. And don't wait until Thanksgiving or Christmas - we have enough to do that time of year that we don't want to waste our time explaining to people that we are full of volunteers for those days months in advance.

[Jose Diablo]

54. I was reading someplace, been a decade or more

that some communities were pouring kerosene in public trash cans to stop derelicts from obtaining the thrown away food.

I thought to myself, what a bunch of snooty bastards, if someone is hungry enough to look for food in the trash can, others should be feeding them, not trying to destroy what food these poor people need. Sure there are dopers and drunks or people others may say are undeserving of pity. But thats not the point. The point is, we as humans bear a responsibility to others less able for one reason or another to care for their own needs. It is a command, not a request. It is an obligation to buy into the human race, to be part of the human race.

Talk about small minded and petty. What the hell, you were done eating the food, you threw it away and now YOU feel offended? You better hope you never fall in a hole and need someone to help you out.

[TheCowsCameHome]

56. How do you know it was your garbage that was picked?

Or did you fill the entire can yourself?

[Skittles]

58. I guess I'm different from you

if I noticed that, I'd be putting some prize food in that can; by the way, the law disagrees with you: your trash is considered public......many a DNA sample has been gathered from suspects' trash.

[fujiyama]

59. How the hell is it

a violation of privacy to go through trash at a public trash can?

I mean, if the homeless person was going through your garbage outside your home, then I can see an argument being made that it is a violation of privacy (still nowadays everyone knows that any sensitive info should be shredded). That person would also likely be violating and tresspassing on your property as well.

But a public trash can is public. If you don't want someone picking at your leftovers, wait till you get home and toss it.

[Sydnie]

62. Perhaps they are not looking for YOUR trash

perhaps, they are looking for trash from a more upscale eatery? Perhaps they are bypassing your "golden garbage" for something that the person that used that can before you placed there.

Or, they could be covert members of the FBI (Federal Bum Investigators) bent on gaining access to your DNA.

Hey, it could happen.


:sarcasm:

[Misunderestimator]

63. Yeah... strange. Incredibly.

I cleaned out my house before I moved of all the recyclables I had... including a bunch of bottles and cans I had in the garage that I had forgotten about. When I went out in the morning before the trucks had come to pick it up to add a few more bits, the recycling can was EMPTY. I was so grateful that someone had made use of those cans and bottles to redeem for money that would have just gone to waste (and extremely grateful that they had done it completely SILENTLY).

Why on earth would you object to someone who has NOTHING going through something you throw away? Especially useless trash??? Maybe I could understand you having a problem with someone going through your garbage to find receipts or paperwork to steal your identity, but hell... FAST FOOD TRASH? :wtf:

You may THINK that this has nothing to do with disliking the homeless... but you would be WRONG. :eyes:

[salin]

64. Per your edit

exactly *what* offends you?

You discarded food.

Someone, presumably hungry - or they wouldn't be digging for scraps, finds it where you discarded it (in a PUBLIC trash can) and eats it.

I really don't understand why you feel this is an invasion of *your* privacy. You threw the food away. You threw it into a public trash receptacle. If you are that funky about "personal space" (as in there is some designated "personal space" in the public trashcan that shouldn't be violated by anyone else), then I would suggest that you deal with this personal foible by carrying your food refuse with you to your home, where you can dispose of it in your private home and private trash recepticle.

However, once that food refuse is picked up and dumped in the public dump - it is back into "public" space, and there is no guarantee of "right to privacy" per your fast food refuse.

[The empressof all]

65. locking

Neither copycats or flamebait are permitted in GD