Cops still copping https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1362240183635181570
This is such an idiotic waste of taxpayer money https://twitter.com/oregonian/status/1361916778318815234
The Nuremberg Defense has been dead since WWII

And if "leadership" is decreeing the beat cops perform dumpster duty, it seems the beat cops should find new jobs with better leaders https://twitter.com/techgnostik/status/1362442199997112320
(And, of course, cop "leadership" are also cops. Just ones with more experience abusing the citizenry.)
Plus, given the outside temps, the food was still refrigerated! 🤦‍♂️ https://twitter.com/jenmakesthings/status/1362452870373675016
Something I was taught growing up too (and I'm from Virginia Beach!) -- if power goes out in the summer, you're SOL; if it goes out in the winter, check the temperature first because your food might have a chance outside https://twitter.com/megan_hable/status/1362454859094634496
The stuff thrown in a dumpster heading to the landfill isn't sold to anyone. Try again. https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362456126378414085
You also can't steal property that's been abandoned, so by definition it's not theft 🤦‍♂️
And dumpsters like the one in the picture are taken to landfills

I almost admire your effort to insist on something that even the store didn't claim to be true though https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362456628822499336
There are no property rights in trash. That's why the police can take your garbage looking for evidence without violating your 4th Amendment rights.

Again – regardless of the industry – in this particular instance, with this particular dumpster, you are quite wrong https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362456967504162827
Yes, bulk food waste

Not dumpsters where food waste got combined with plain old trash, trash bags, assorted items that would kill the animals if ingested, etc https://twitter.com/shineboxhukster/status/1362457205153427465
If the state has laws prohibiting it, you can prosecuted for violating those laws

The store can't sue you for conversion, and you wouldn't be successfully prosecuted for theft https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362457863696842752
North Carolina's politicians enacted a separate statute criminalizing the taking of kitchen grease, precisely because it wasn't theft / larceny / etc

This is not hard to understand
It depends on whether the state has a specific law prohibiting doing so; I said that in the prior tweet

You can't be prosecuted *for theft* for taking someone's trash, no

I know you understand this and are just being tedious https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362458542742077447
Which wasn't what *this particular dumpster* containing *these particular contents* was

So we're back to the beginning. Try again. https://twitter.com/friedokratime/status/1362460666087546884
The discarded contents would still be trash; the container is not, and cutting the locks would be destruction of property https://twitter.com/cbjacob1/status/1362460525637025795
Can't speak to Oregon law, that's a @karhifer area of expertise

SCOTUS has held a warrant is not required under the Fourth Amendment to seize trash (California v Greenwood, 486 US 35 (1988)), but states may have added protections in their state constitutions or statutes https://twitter.com/cinnerz/status/1362460783662178307
It wasn't spoiled though, because of how cold it was outside. And at least one person had a food handler card and meat thermometer to verify https://twitter.com/tl_reeve/status/1362463223270813698
Exactly

I just went ahead and blocked the account, I don't have patience for willful stupidity. The Devil has enough advocates https://twitter.com/ktwebb2/status/1362467877945708544
Sure. Though before you can be arrested for trespassing, you typically need to be ordered to leave by someone having authority and control over the property https://twitter.com/egnowit/status/1362470673793249281
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