Thread: Beware what you leave in your yard!

About lunchtime today in NE Alabama, I heard the dogs barking and went to investigate.

Encountered two urban recyclers (from my property to their truck) in my driveway loading my 20 year old canoe onto their truck. When I yelled at them, they sped off (no license plate on the truck).

Two ironic factors here:

1. If they had asked for it I would probably have given it to them to get it out of the yard.

2. It has cracks in the fiberglass and leaks!!!

I hope they enjoy it.

Lesson Learned: You can't leave anything unsecured any more, even if you live in a city.

Both my daughter and I live in Madison Alabama and my grandson left a 300 dollar long skateboard in his front yard.Well the next day it was gone and some of the neighbors kids told us the guy who picks up recyclables took it and he always comes on a certain night.I was watching the grandkids while my daughter was in Ukraine adopting a boy.Well I went to police and they told me it happens a lot.Police knows the guy and he has rights picking stuff near curb or street only.Well this was near the house but couldn't prove that to police.Well I found the guy and told him if he was ever in my yard again I would beat his brains in.Why I was pissed was because my grandson cut yards and did side jobs to get the money for this skateboard.Hard lesson learned.this guy drives a maroon color pick up.My son in law bought him another board for Christmas.the police told me they have a place where they sell there goods.Never heard one more thing from police.They told me to check lost and found on there Webb page from time to time.

My dad grew up in NY City and when he was young,a garbage pick-up strike took place in the 40's. One of his chores was to put the weeks garbage into a couple of boxes then gift wrap it. When Grandpa made his weekly trip to the grocery store he would leave the "gifts" in plain sight with the car door unlocked. Garbage problem solved...

It is everywhere. They even came into the yard and dug up all the peonies one year. Who wants peonies? The only person who ever asked if the rusty pushmower I left by the curb was trash was -- a metal recycler.