Once some homeless person digs a donut out of the trash and gets food poisoning, you bet your sweet bippy that some scumbag lawyer would file suit in a New York minute.
So now, dumpsters are locked, or in some cases, the businesses pour ammonia on perfectly fine food, so that nobody can access the perfectly edible food that is thrown away.
In the old days, McDonalds used to have a system where, if a burger wasn't sold by a particular time, it would be thrown out.
I know people who worked there who would tell friends when the "bad burgers" were being tossed, and they would just hand them the bag.
It was win-win.
Nowadays that wouldn't happen.
No offense to scumbags. I had no intention of equating scumbags with lawyers.
For the record, I apologize to scumbags.