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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:19:42 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >I don't mind scavengers rooting through our dustbin, and sometimes if we have   
   >leftover food I put it on a paper plate, or pizza in a box on top of the bin   
   >to make it easier for them.   
   >   
   >But one guy with a nicked supermarket trolley literally took the cake (in the   
   >figurative sense of "literally", not the literal sense of literally).   
   >   
   >We have special bags in which we can put old newspapers and other waste paper   
   >and a lorry comes around for a fortnightly collection. This bloke comes   
   >trundling down with his nicked trolley, parks it outside our front gate, takes   
   >off the bag of newspapers, empties it in the vacant lot across the road, and   
   >folds up the bag, preparing to take it away.   
   >   
   >I brought his nicked trolley inside, and shut the gate.   
   >   
   >He pleaded with me to give it back, and I said I would only do so if he put   
   >all the newspapers back in the bag, and brought it back and put it where he   
   >had found it. When he realised that I was serious, he eventually did so.   
      
   Good on you!   
      
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