Self Serve Carwash News Fall '19

TRICKS OF THE
We don’t need no badges continued....
you don’t need them .... you get my drift. - MJWALSH
Over the years I’ve been toe-to-toe more than once
with the police over illegal dumping. You can pretty
much forget about the police or the prosecutor doing
much of anything, I’ve never gotten any satisfaction
from them. Lock your dumpster up like it was Fort
Knox. When they dump outside of the dumpster look
for an address and then take their garbage/junk back
to them, that can be very entertaining. - RANDY
We lock our dumpster, but people get creative with
how they go about leaving their crap on our lot. I’m
a big fan of dumpster diving for anything with an address
on it. I then like to return their garbage to their
property (i.e. dumping all over their lawn), if they are
within driving distance. - SRR5008
The chances are low, but you risk an accidental needle
stick if you paw through the dumped trash. That’s
a risk I choose to avoid. I like the idea of taking it back,
except if I am halfway unloading it and a drunken property
owner comes out to confront me. Ahhhh. - RANDY
I think I wore out my welcome with law enforcement
with just one report. The deputy asked for videos;
unfortunately, that became many emails because
of size limits of email attachments. So, my effort to
send the required information, pictures, and videos
probably flooded his email in-box for a bit. From his
perspective, that’s a lot to shuffle through for a “littering”
charge. - Sequoia
I dump the bags into my dumpster and use one of
those trash picker/grabber tools to stir the trash and
pick out envelopes - for that very reason. I’m always
worried about druggies dumping on my lot. I also return
garbage to homeowners during the wee hours of
the morning to avoid fistfights. - SRR5008
Just had my first trash dumper with my newly acquired
wash. And yes, he was dumb enough to have
mail and documents with his phone number on it. Left
him a nice message saying basically if it ever happens
again, don’t worry about it being reported to the police.
There was a little more I said that I wish to not
repeat here. - MAC
I think you are approaching this wrong, I prosecute
this as theft of service. I can sympathize with not wanting
to prosecute littering, but this is not littering- it is
theft. It is NOT a minor annoyance, it is costing me
thousands of dollars per year.
Littering: “carelessly discarded refuse.” (freedictionary)
Theft of Service: a crime which is committed when
a person obtains valuable services — as opposed to
goods — by deception, force, threat or other unlawful
means, i.e., without lawfully compensating the provider
for these services.
In plain English, if you are paying for trash collection,
and somebody brings a tied-off bag of garbage
and leaves it on your property/dumpster without paying
you, they are stealing a service. This is the “service”
(as opposed to product) version of shoplifting. It is a
misdemeanor, and goes on their permanent record.
Whenever somebody tells me “it’s just a bag of
trash, get over it” I remind them that the service of
trash collection is one of the biggest industries in the
US, look up the value of Waste Management or Republic
Services if you think I’m wrong, they are both
fortune 500, climbing steadily. - PAULLOVESJAMIE
I use the “theft of service” tag a lot, including for
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