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One man's trash
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 27, 2003 | Will Evans

Posted on 05/27/2003 5:38:07 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:51:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

There's a dumpster in Sacramento with delicious sweet rolls inside.

Rich, chewy and a bit hard to find amid all the bakery trash, it's a good dessert to cap off a successful night of dumpster-diving for Tim Jones.

Jones actually takes two, gobbling them as he pedals away on his bike, which is lugging a trailer loaded with groceries he's grabbed from another dumpster.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: nutcase
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Oh this is a gem.
1 posted on 05/27/2003 5:38:07 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: Gophack
Let me see if I understand this:

"But Jones and the others say they've never gotten sick from dumpstered food. And washed and prepared, it will make for a full meal -- not just for Jones and his friends, but for dozens of homeless people who they cook for regularly."

Homeless people are so lazy nowadays that they even get other people to do their dumpster-diving for them? Gosh, next they will expect someone to chew the food for them....
2 posted on 05/27/2003 5:40:51 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Simply put: Freegans reduce trash by eating it

Actually, they just compact it a bit further.

Maybe they eat again at that point, I don't know.

3 posted on 05/27/2003 5:42:40 PM PDT by dead
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To: ElkGroveDan
If I had known as a young child that the ultimate destination for American society was one where people scavanged in dumpsters just for the hell of it even though they are fully capable of buying food on their own, I would have submitted my resignation at age 9 and demanded to be left in 4th grade for the rest of my life.
4 posted on 05/27/2003 5:50:12 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: ElkGroveDan
Wackernagel designed a way of measuring an individual's impact on the Earth called an "ecological footprint."

I'm a bit embarrassed by it, but I am well known for the size of my "Wackernagel."

5 posted on 05/27/2003 5:50:26 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: Lazamataz; AppyPappy; Sir Gawain; No Left Turn; PJ-Comix; feinswinesuksass
I just threw out a half a ham sandwich, if any of you guys are interested.
6 posted on 05/27/2003 5:52:50 PM PDT by dead
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To: ElkGroveDan
freegans=bums
7 posted on 05/27/2003 5:56:20 PM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil)
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To: mystery-ak
freegans=bums

You beat me to it. :-)

8 posted on 05/27/2003 5:58:46 PM PDT by darkwing104
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To: ElkGroveDan
hahahaha...Y'all are funny! I laughed through every post! The size of my Wacker-whatever is probably larger than my grandmotherly hips! ...or perhaps there's a corolation?

:D
9 posted on 05/27/2003 5:59:00 PM PDT by bannie (Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
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To: ElkGroveDan
What people are witnessing is a culture of waste and affluence, which is occurring in a larger context of poverty on a global scale.....

R i i i i i i i i i ght!

That's why 2/3 of mankind would come to live in the US if they could. We're just so terrible.

10 posted on 05/27/2003 6:01:41 PM PDT by Republic If You Can Keep It
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To: ElkGroveDan
What an amazing country we live in. We can produce engineers and physicists with enough skill to put a man on the moon, and on the other hand, we have the freegan.
11 posted on 05/27/2003 6:01:45 PM PDT by July 4th
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To: ElkGroveDan
Pretending to drop out of the natural order of things does not make you morally superior Nor does it actually drop you out of the natural order of things. You're sunk guys, as much as you don't want to accept it, if you live, you consume. You might as well do something really useful and kill yourselves now. Then at least you'll be contributing something useful (humus).
12 posted on 05/27/2003 6:11:45 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: ElkGroveDan
They are the underground resistance to over-consumption.

Oh, puh-leaze. This makes them sound like some group of morally superior pioneers of the human condition. NO, they are the too lazy, too high, too unmotivated, and too bankrupt to contribute anything of value or substance to society. They were better known as bums at one time.

13 posted on 05/27/2003 6:15:37 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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To: ElkGroveDan
"Should I use what otherwise would go to waste?" Jones says. "Or should I go into a store and pay six bucks for this organic vegan product that's in all the plastic packaging, and then someone's going to use that six bucks to go buy McDonald's or something?"

His thinking shows how freegans view the extreme inter-connectedness of things -- like that of a hunk of tofu, for example, to the gas that's used and the pollution that's created by transporting it to a store.

Hey, Jones, have you stopped to think how much carbon dioxide you're spewing into the air by breathing?

14 posted on 05/27/2003 6:19:15 PM PDT by D. Brian Carter
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To: ElkGroveDan
I'm sure there are a lot of proud parents reading this article tonight!
17 posted on 05/27/2003 6:37:01 PM PDT by Gritty
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To: ElkGroveDan
YUMMY! I can hardly wait...
19 posted on 05/27/2003 6:41:15 PM PDT by redhead (Les Français sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
"When people are starving around the world, (Americans) are throwing away perfectly good food," says David, 20, another Sacramento freegan who doesn't want his last name used.

Maybe "David - age 20" realizes he should be just enough embarrassed to request 'name withheld"?

20 posted on 05/27/2003 6:45:57 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Bumperootus!)
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