Jolie Rouge
09-09-2003, 09:04 AM
My sis & I were discussing this
Ex-mayor wants to license trash scavengers in Pittsburgh suburb
Sunday, September 7, 2003 Posted: 7:01 PM EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/09/07/offbeat.trash.treasures.ap/index.html
Could a treasure be hiding among this garbage?
Some in Pennsylvania say, "yes."
WHITEHALL, Pennsylvania (AP) -- One person's trash is another's treasure -- reason enough to license trash scavengers, according to the former mayor of this Pittsburgh suburb.
"So much stuff is thrown away today, especially in suburbia," said 85-year-old Edwin Brennan, whose 14-year tenure in the middle-class borough ended a decade ago. "It's wasteful to do that."
Brennan asked the borough council last week to consider licensing a limited number of scavengers who would pay $10 each to scour curbside trash to use or resell.
The borough outlawed scavengers after residents complained strangers were going through the garbage.
The licenses are "just to make sure we know who's out there, so if a patrol car sees a particular vehicle that's licensed, we know who that guy is," said police chief William Schmitt, recalling he once reclaimed cooling fans a neighbor had thrown out.
"Everybody did it," Schmitt said.
Brennan said an old desk he once left at the curb was taken by a neighbor who left behind ice skates that fit Brennan's daughter perfectly.
"It's hard to part with all these things. You put them aside and say, 'I'd like to get rid of them,' but you never do," Brennan said. "Your heirs do."
So the question is :
Would you pay to pick up curb side treasures if the permits prohitted others from doing so ?
>or<
They couldn't pay me to go through other peoples trash !
Ex-mayor wants to license trash scavengers in Pittsburgh suburb
Sunday, September 7, 2003 Posted: 7:01 PM EDT
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/09/07/offbeat.trash.treasures.ap/index.html
Could a treasure be hiding among this garbage?
Some in Pennsylvania say, "yes."
WHITEHALL, Pennsylvania (AP) -- One person's trash is another's treasure -- reason enough to license trash scavengers, according to the former mayor of this Pittsburgh suburb.
"So much stuff is thrown away today, especially in suburbia," said 85-year-old Edwin Brennan, whose 14-year tenure in the middle-class borough ended a decade ago. "It's wasteful to do that."
Brennan asked the borough council last week to consider licensing a limited number of scavengers who would pay $10 each to scour curbside trash to use or resell.
The borough outlawed scavengers after residents complained strangers were going through the garbage.
The licenses are "just to make sure we know who's out there, so if a patrol car sees a particular vehicle that's licensed, we know who that guy is," said police chief William Schmitt, recalling he once reclaimed cooling fans a neighbor had thrown out.
"Everybody did it," Schmitt said.
Brennan said an old desk he once left at the curb was taken by a neighbor who left behind ice skates that fit Brennan's daughter perfectly.
"It's hard to part with all these things. You put them aside and say, 'I'd like to get rid of them,' but you never do," Brennan said. "Your heirs do."
So the question is :
Would you pay to pick up curb side treasures if the permits prohitted others from doing so ?
>or<
They couldn't pay me to go through other peoples trash !