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Author Topic: Whats In Your Dumpster? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-07-2007 10:10 AM                     So I get to work today coming in the back alley way as I normally do. I notice that someone had dropped some extra stuff next to our dumpster... this is not unusual. The only thing this time is they left me a nice gift. Now I'm not normally a dumpster diver nor a pack rat but this was too good to be true... In a box next to the dumpster was an entire case of Jensen JT-16A Microphone transformers. Not only are these the worlds best microphone trannys but there was an entire case of them. A quick search on the Jensen Transformer site led me to the specs and pricing.... $73.32 in case quantity. Thank You to whoever left these.....! Whats in your dumpster or what interesting stuff have you found there over the years? Mark  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-07-2007 12:35 PM                     Some DJ dumped a couple hundred CDs into one of my dumpsters.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 08-07-2007 12:38 PM                     When my store switched to a new food preparation system, the entire store was gutted. So I scored a 20 foot fiberglass sign, about 4 tonnes of Stainless steel cabinetry, heating apparatus and electrical cabling/transformers, and advertising trans-lites. All dumped in the back corral, overflowing from dumpsters. Unfortunately, our logistics officer (Mum), said only the trans-lites could stay. So all that metal went back, with a suggestion to management that maybe it would have scrap value. I'm pretty sure it still went to landfill.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-07-2007 12:38 PM                        The tortured and mutilated body of the last person I caught using a mobile phone in a cinema...  |  IP: Logged Emma Tomiak Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Carrollton, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-07-2007 01:17 PM                        A fire is occasionally found in my theatre's dumpster.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-07-2007 01:34 PM                     back in high school, a friend and I, after midnight, would go dumpter hunting behind TV stations for 16mm film and the film that we would get! ... which is now worth very much in collectable value of all that was taken. These explorations didn't last too long soon afterwards since the stations caught on that their dumpters were being pillaged and would then destroy the film before tossing it out. But it was fun though ...just something that one wouldn't imagine of doing... Someone left a complete GATEWAY computer next to our dumpster at the theatre a couple of years back..only 2 yrs old in fully operational condition.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-07-2007 02:21 PM                     People like to dump their household trash in my dumpster. This includes all bills in there original form, payroll check stubs, etc (not shredded). Takes me about 30 seconds to find the name, address, and phone number of the offender. I like to call them at 2am and inform them they have one hour to come get their shit or I call the prosecutor the next morning. Usually works. For repeat offenders, can we say true dumbass, I load the offending trash bags, drive past their house on the way home, and deposit it all on their front lawn. Oops, it's too bad if the bags happen to split open when I do so.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-07-2007 04:00 PM                        Anyone looking the dumpster out back of the parts store might find some interesting stuff from time to time. Whenever we clean out an area, we find "something" that either nobody can identify, or something no one has wanted for 20 years...it almost always winds up in the dumpster. So far I haven't thrown out anything that I later found out I really needed though!  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-07-2007 04:53 PM                        It pays sometimes to dumpster dive. Almost every single piece of commercial kitchen equipment at my drive-in was sitting in the parking lot next to a roll-off dumpster at a local college to be thrown away. There were several pieces of equipment still in their boxes that were never used, but were now "in the way". My wife worked there and the food service director said, "Come get it if you want.. it all goes in the dumpster on Friday." We scored refrigerated prep tables, triple sinks, work table freezers, 36" grill, 2 deep fryers (one still has a 2 year warranty left on it), steam table, ice dispenser, fryer filters, etc. Our dumpster at the drive-in gets the occasional household trash from some of the folks in town. I like Brad's idea of taking it back to them!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-07-2007 05:40 PM                  quote: Brad Allen For repeat offenders, can we say true dumbass, I load the offending trash bags, drive past their house on the way home, and deposit it all on their front lawn. Oops, it's too bad if the bags happen to split open when I do so. Brad, while I doubt I'd take all that time and effort, your post cracked me up! Really funny! I especially like the part of calling them in the middle of the night!  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 08-07-2007 08:25 PM                        Remember "Alice's Restaurant?" Louis  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 08-07-2007 11:52 PM                     When I was working for the UA theatre at the South Plains Mall we shared a dumpster with B. Dalton Booksellers, and I happily discovered that when they make credit returns to the paperback publishers, they don't return the entire book, just the front covers. They chucked the remainder of the book in the dumpster. Gave me something to read...  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-08-2007 02:33 PM                     A good friend built an alarm system complete with fire detection, entry detection and motion/body heat detection for his house and 3 car garage with new in the box parts from the dumpster of the local ADT branch office. The box to install it in took a second dive a couple weeks later.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-08-2007 05:41 PM                     quote: Louis Bornwasser Remember "Alice's Restaurant?" "You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant" "Walk right in, it's around the back, just across the street from the railroad track." "loaded the microbus with 500 lbs of garbage" (great Masacree and the 1969 UA movie).  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-08-2007 10:41 PM                     I always take my yard rubbish to our dumpster at work. Our trash pick-up is on Tuesday mornings but I usually fill it up over the weekend. Especially during fall when I rake up an average of 42 bags of leaves. I have to line the bags up beside my garage and take them a few at a time. Otherwise I make it overflow too much. This really makes our warehouse guy mad.  |  IP: Logged

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