I did that about a month ago with an old barbeque. Someone stole the damn 'FREE' sign and left the barbeque.
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LOL! Ours was broken, so we didn't have much hope. We were lucky. At our old house, someone took two moth-eaten oriental rugs we put out with the trash, and some other junk as well. The little boy down the street took two of our plants right out of the ground and gave them to his mother as a present. She made him give them back.
I guess it all depends on the neighborhood. :)