Cities with homeless diving in dumpster of your backyard (state, people, Boston)

[kyle242]

Name city and state

San Jose, Ca - very spread out and common, every day or night, police or private security companies don't enforce against trespassing at all.

[Cliff Clavin]

Every city, every state.

[kyle242]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

Every city, every state.

Good one but not true. I mean "WIDESPREAD dumpster diving" in your city, state.

[jennifat]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

Every city, every state.

Agreed. This is a problem in pretty much every mid- to large-sized city. I see homeless people digging through trash all the time in the dumpster behind my apartment building here in Minneapolis. Once last summer, somebody illegally dumped an old chair in the alley behind my building and sure enough, a few hours later I saw a homeless man dragging it away.

[Dawn.Davenport]

This is a particular problem in the bottle-return-rebate states: Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (10¢, baby!), New York, Oregon, and Vermont.

[AES328]

Originally Posted by kyle242

Name city and state

San Jose, Ca - very spread out and common, every day or night, police or private security companies don't enforce against trespassing at all.

Is it actually "widespread" or are you making blanket statements because you know a guy who saw a bum diving into a dumpster once, and he was afraid?

[Jason_show]

San Francisco
Portland
Chicago
NYC
Boston
LA

[RadicalAtheist]

"Cities with homeless diving in dumpster of your backyard"

Such a strange combination of words for a thread title..

[GalacticDragonfly]

Dumpster diving?

Is that a metaphor for homeless people or is that literal?

[sav858]

In San Diego the homeless and Mexicans in pickup trucks would essentially roam the alleys. The homeless would get into the recycle bins and the Mexicans took whatever junk was left out in the back and loaded it up onto their pickups. It was actually pretty nice as it made it very easy to get rid of anything you wanted. Old bikes, appliances, mattresses, clothes, a coach soaked in rat urine and feces that had been sitting in a garage for years, piles of disgusting carpet scraps, etc... Literally anything you put out would be gone within an hour or two.