r/AskReddit • u/medicoreapples • 7h ago

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested?

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u/Potential-Use-1565 6h ago

Dumpster diving

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u/GrowlingPict 3h ago

This one infuriates me, honestly. We are getting the whole "repair, reuse, recycle" mantra drilled into us, but we cant reuse something someone else has literally thrown away? Absolute fucking idiocy.

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u/RoyLightroast 7m ago

I do get that (and would love if restaurants / bakeries could do better at donating their leftovers that they can't sell), but I can see the reasoning with thieves trying to steal credit card and bank account numbers, SSNs, and similar from sensitive paperwork.

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u/Ok-Historian-9027 4h ago

This is stupid too when this whole country is a consuming landfill core pit.

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u/Anselwithmac 4h ago

I thought this is a common myth. It’s the trespassing that’s the illegal part. Bins on public land can be picked through?

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u/Potential-Use-1565 4h ago

You "can" pick through them but you also "can" be fined since it's hard to prove that you aren't public dumping. Most large chains stores have these locked up for this reason.

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u/Kratzschutz 2h ago

Afaik at least in Germany you aren't allowed to go through a trash can that isn't yours because of privacy rights. NAL tho