Pickup bed is worlds dumpster?
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From: Summit, NJ
Pickup bed is worlds dumpster?
Anyone else have this problem?
Anytime I check my pickup bed, I find that someone has disposed of or placed items in my pickup bed. I have found the following items so far:
Empty 12 pack of bud bottles
Empty beer cans
Discarded boxes
Hockey Sticks (lame ones, not even good ones)
old muffler
old brakes
old oil filter, empty oil quarts
recycling
Why do people consider a pickup truck as the world's trash dumpster? Am I the only one with this problem? Are people trying to tell me something?
Anytime I check my pickup bed, I find that someone has disposed of or placed items in my pickup bed. I have found the following items so far:
Empty 12 pack of bud bottles
Empty beer cans
Discarded boxes
Hockey Sticks (lame ones, not even good ones)
old muffler
old brakes
old oil filter, empty oil quarts
recycling
Why do people consider a pickup truck as the world's trash dumpster? Am I the only one with this problem? Are people trying to tell me something?
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I found that every so often until I put my topper on. I didn't mind so much some of the garbage that I could throw in my trash can but I hated stuff that I had to haul to the dump or compost site as it was a wasted trip for me.
I came home from work one day to find my truck loaded to the hilt with grass clippings and tree branches. Turns out the neighbor needed to haul stuff to the compost site and figured I would do it when I got home. Needless to say I gave him the keys and let him unload the truck himself.
I came home from work one day to find my truck loaded to the hilt with grass clippings and tree branches. Turns out the neighbor needed to haul stuff to the compost site and figured I would do it when I got home. Needless to say I gave him the keys and let him unload the truck himself.
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I have had the same thing happen, seems like every time I go to a mall, or home store I come out and find some kind of trash, beer or soda cans, boxes, etc. it really gets to be quite annoying, especially when you can never catch who did it.
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Originally Posted by couleeman
I found that every so often until I put my topper on. I didn't mind so much some of the garbage that I could throw in my trash can but I hated stuff that I had to haul to the dump or compost site as it was a wasted trip for me.
I came home from work one day to find my truck loaded to the hilt with grass clippings and tree branches. Turns out the neighbor needed to haul stuff to the compost site and figured I would do it when I got home. Needless to say I gave him the keys and let him unload the truck himself.
I came home from work one day to find my truck loaded to the hilt with grass clippings and tree branches. Turns out the neighbor needed to haul stuff to the compost site and figured I would do it when I got home. Needless to say I gave him the keys and let him unload the truck himself.
But it made me mad to find beer cans and other junk in my truck before. Some people just have no respect for anyone.
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When I was a kid... IE... 10 years old or so, I have to admit, I used to throw thing like my pop cans ect.. into someones pick-up.
Come to think of it, I did lots of things then I would wring some ones neck for now!
Come to think of it, I did lots of things then I would wring some ones neck for now!
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From: Oak Harbor, OH
People has lost respect for one another. It's sad but true... The parents are never home, and the baysitter can't do anything to discipline the kids so they go unchecked. THe kids think mom and dad are just live in friends (seeing as how they want to take no serious part in rasing them), so when the parent try it doesn't do any good... It boils down to if a child disrespects his parent(s) he/she need to be spanked, not given a time out. Time outs do not work (I know, the kid sits there and then is right back up doing the same thing. They tend to make a game out of it.), so spanking is the only real option. Yet when someone spanks the kid they get sent off for child abuse.. Since when is it allowable for someone else to tell YOU how to raise YOUR kids? People want no reponsibility for their actions anymore, or the results of those actions. In the same manner kids are seen a property and noone wants to take responsibility for them either.. Seems like the attitude is "Let the government handle them.".
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oh boy, do i have this problem. I live on a college campus, and needless to say, everyone throws everything in the nearest truck bed. I have walked out to find
fast food bags
empty cans of beer, soda, everything
beer can boxes
6pack holders
general trash(candy wrappers, etc.)
It hasn't happened a lot recently, I pulled the tailgate off so I assume they realize that there isn't any point, i do find a lot of trash behind my truck now though.
fast food bags
empty cans of beer, soda, everything
beer can boxes
6pack holders
general trash(candy wrappers, etc.)
It hasn't happened a lot recently, I pulled the tailgate off so I assume they realize that there isn't any point, i do find a lot of trash behind my truck now though.
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I have a friends son who got nailed for having open containers. There was an empty six pack in the bed of the pick-up. He doesn't drink beer, has no taste for the stuff. His dad even kids me about me being his father, since I don't like beer either. The Judge threw it out, but the dad was out the Lawyer money as he didn't want his son to loose his scholarship.
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Originally Posted by Aftrmidnite
I have a friends son who got nailed for having open containers. There was an empty six pack in the bed of the pick-up. He doesn't drink beer, has no taste for the stuff. His dad even kids me about me being his father, since I don't like beer either. The Judge threw it out, but the dad was out the Lawyer money as he didn't want his son to loose his scholarship.
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From: Carthage, IL
i have the same prob but not at my apt building i know a few of the neibors(sp?) and im always going to the range and the farm so im constantly toting in and out guns and military gear so they probaly know better to mess with it in fact im the only one who hasent got their magnetic ribbons stolen either
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From: Wichita, KS
I used to keep my truck at my Mom's house, parked in the street along the curb. Usually had my pickup bed trailer behind it too. I lost count of the number of times I'd go to get something from the toolbox and find a pop bottle, or fast food wrapper, or whatever, laying in the bed where it had landed. Even worse was the crap they'd thrown at it and missed as they went by, that landed in the street or the yard under the truck, like I'd thrown it there myself.
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From: Colorado
Yep, that ticks me off so much since I'm not the one who got to enjoy the food from the wrapers.
I did find if you take two parking spots at stores it does cut down on people tossing crap into the bed.
I did find if you take two parking spots at stores it does cut down on people tossing crap into the bed.
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From: Summit, NJ
Originally Posted by mikebon08
Even worse was the crap they'd thrown at it and missed as they went by, that landed in the street or the yard under the truck, like I'd thrown it there myself.
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From: Tillsonburg ON
Lucky you, only garbage? Where I work, druggies & street-people have been known to climb in and have naps during the day. Only happened to me once, and in the neighborhood I work in there's usually a cop within a block or two so he cleared the guy out for me. Guy that parks beside me has a canopy without a lock and it happens to him all the time.