And the Grand Prize goes to . . .

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Looks like our store is either becoming a dumping ground or the Kitty is holding some sort of super-secret contest for the vendors. Just not sure which . . .

Opened the door today by the dumpster where the ramp is and somebody had tossed out an old table top television set onto a stack of Pepsi pallets.

Even funnier was just a few moments after I opened the door, the Pepsi truck pulled around the back to reach our dock.

The driver had good laugh over the sight . . . unfortunately I couldn't talk him into taking the tv with him.

Of course, funnier was back at WD Cone where somebody had dumped out a sofa, washer and dryer and a set of matresses one evening. All we needed was a stove and tv set and we'd had an outdoor apartment.

What's some of the funnier stuff you've seen dumped behind your stores?

[Aldous]

A case of old porno mags and movies. The only time I ever took the garbage out, and I find the Pervert's Gold Mine. We had a great laugh over that one. Some other things we've found were a sofa, T.V., chair, lamp, and tires. Yes, old tires, someone thought it would be a good idea to dump them in our dumpster.

[Andara Bledin]

A burned out car.

No joke.

Some local thugs had stolen a car from somewhere, then when it came time to dump the thing, they pulled up into our driveway and set the thing on fire.

Some of the companies on our street run 24-hour operations, yet nobody paid any attention to the burning car that would have been in full view of anyone on the street.

Oh, and some other time, we had a truck driver dump a particularly rusty chassis parked in front of our building. They had pulled the license plate off, but the VIN information was still attached. They must have been really stupid to think that wouldn't come back and bite them.

And another time, someone tossed about a pickup truck bed's worth of garbage over our fence into our back lot area. I have no idea what that was about.

^-.-^

[Ringtail Z28]

Oh the things people dumped off at my store. Where to start?

People from the nearby swap meet (which I had the misfortune to live across the street from for nine years) would dump huge piles of garbage in the parking lot or near the loading dock.

Stolen cars. Punks would steal cars then commit a robbery or whatever and then ditch the car in the parking lot.

Bags of dismembered animals left in the parking lot, and once at guest service.

[Andara Bledin]

Bags of dismembered animals left in the parking lot, and once at guest service.

You didn't have a PETA location near you, did you?

....

Ok, so they didn't actually dismember them before dumping them.

^-.-^

[Rapscallion]

Politics off this board please - we have fratching for that.

Rapscallion

[sms001]

What's some of the funnier stuff you've seen dumped behind your stores?

A wall. (Apparently some house rehabbers in the neighborhood got VERY lucky in their demo work and got about a five by eight foot section out in one piece.)

Porn stash - but... from like the sixties or so judging by the covers.

A lariat. (The wife's an equestrian and said they were fairly valuable (for a piece of rope) and hard to make so we gave it to a rodeo friend of ours who was pretty appreciative. Who knew?)

A working large flat screen tv. A few years old, but come on!

[powerboy]

Lets see. At my last job

• Grease/ cooking oil. Yup, we found that in the dumpster. The local restaurant nest to the store, would dump it there. They were always getting fined, but they would just pay it, and do it again. It always smelled by there.
  
• Homeless People's belongings.
  
• A Wallet, once. Called and returned it.
  
• A Crack pipe.

[ArenaBoy]

We didn't have dumpsters sitting around the arena but from what I've found on trash duties and from just walking around:

A. Bags of weed and cocaine

B. A torn-up note which we took the trouble and reassembled. (Slow night)

C. Condoms

D. Panties of every size

E. Beer bottles

F. Cups

G. 2 unused tickets for that day's events.

[Shangri-laschild]

We didn't have dumpsters sitting around the arena but from what I've found on trash duties and from just walking around:

A. Bags of weed and cocaine

B. A torn-up note which we took the trouble and reassembled. (Slow night)

C. Condoms

D. Panties of every size

E. Beer bottles

F. Cups

G. 2 unused tickets for that day's events.

Was the note any good?

[Shabo]

This wasn't really "dumped" per say, just left behind because they didn't want/were too lazy to deal with it. This year was the goldmine!

I worked as a resident assistant, and one of the things we have to do before we close up for the year is go around and check the rooms for damage/cleaning. The last person to move out is responsible for making sure the place isn't a craphole, and let me tell you, girls are no better than boys at cleaning up after themselves. *Total nasty-ness*. Anywho, some of the goods I found this year include:

-Kitchen utensils
-An entire rack of DVDs, left behind, including a Sopranos box set.
-3 Ironing boards
-A duffel bag
-Numerous coaxial cables, all of good lengths
-A coaxial splitter, never used, forgotten in a drawer
-A cordless phone
-A computer. Nothing special, and when I went to boot it up, it was clear why he left it. Although, all it needed was a reformat of the HDD, and good to go. My little bro got that one.
-Random other things that don't jump to mind atm, or that I didn't think were good enough to take.

So much crap was left behind. And so much crap got thrown out, too! Lots of good stuff. I've heard about the things they throw away out near Harvard and BU, BC areas in Boston when people move home from there. Furniture, fridges, tvs, computers, all because people don't want to/are unable to/don't care enough to bring them home.

[ArenaBoy]

Was the note any good?

It was a typical middle school note so no.

By the way is your avatar from Least I Could Do?