Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoWhat are some illegal things that should be legal?message-squaremessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some illegal things that should be legal?Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 hours agomessage-square131fedilink
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·4 hours agoDumpster diving. Doesn’t matter if it’s food or merchandise. It should be illegal to lock a dumpster or willfully destroy usable goods.
minus-squareBahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-229 minutes agoLocking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen’t get into them. To quote the National Parks service, “There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·32 minutes agoDumpster diving laws are more about trespassing and removing liability anyway.
minus-squareMintyFresh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 hours agoYou’ve never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn’t mind so much
minus-squareUsernameblankface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoAh, so getting things out of the trash could be legal, but making a mess from a dumpster should have consequences
Dumpster diving. Doesn’t matter if it’s food or merchandise. It should be illegal to lock a dumpster or willfully destroy usable goods.
Locking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen’t get into them. To quote the National Parks service,
“There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.
Dumpster diving laws are more about trespassing and removing liability anyway.
You’ve never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn’t mind so much
Ah, so getting things out of the trash could be legal, but making a mess from a dumpster should have consequences