They stole my bungie cords....

[mrlmd1]

David Brenner (older comedian from our youth) had a schtick about trying to get rid of an old leather wingback chair.
First he tried to sell it, no offers.
He wanted to throw it out but the garbage men wanted $50 to haul it away, so,
he put it on his front porch with a sign that said "Antique Panamanian Reading Chair. $300,"
and somebody stole it.
Mission accomplished.

By the way, if it's an older analog TV, nobody even wants those things anymore, you have to pay to dispose of it at the dump.

[alanmcorcoran]

A buddy from work and I went on an odyssey about two weeks ago to dispose of 15 older computers. In California you can't just throw them out. We went to about seven places in Recycle Town (my new name for the section of Anaheim where they collect everything from grass clippings to batteries.) We kept getting turned away, but we finally found a place that would take them as long as I signed a paper that said they were not from a business. Two gentlemen even unloaded our obsolete cargo from the Suburban, valet style. We saw some really weird stuff along the way. One place that had a pyramid of old PC's refused to take mine, saying, they "didn't take computers." I asked, "What about those?" "Those are the ones we find hidden in the grass clippings!"

[Jer]

wow.

About all I have had the garbage people refuse here is IA is a microwave.

But ya just wait til someone nearby gets one of those huge dumpsters the size of a train car for a home roofing project or something. Then ya go toss it in.