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October 2009 
Missing - Reward
Posted on Oct 13th, 2009
by 
drechanteuse
drechanteuse
Missing from the front of my house. Lost on Tuesday, October 13 sometime between dawn and noon. Comes to the name, "Recycling Bin." Has been in our family since we first moved into our home. Blue with gigantic crack in its backside from being dropped too hard and too often by the trash collectors. Has the house number "1817" painted sloppily on its side. If you return my bin, you will be rewarded because I will continue to be able to do my part and not pollute California, or the Earth, more than necessary.
If you see it, please call me.
If you see it, please call me.
Access: Public
I think I saw it on Maui.
I wish it would have remembered to take me on its “great escape.” Made me laugh out loud! Thanks.
Very funny, both of you.
Over here in Germany, our recycling bins are smaller and brown, so I don't suppose it would show up in Berlin. You simply can't blend in when you stand out tall and blue like that!
Though it might try to pass as one of our paper waste bins… I'll keep an eye out for number 1817, Andrea, for cracked our bins are as well… Maybe they are forming a global protest group to protest against the abuse by trash collectors?
Could be, a global protest. I just can't imagine where it has gone to. Will it come home? I wonder.
Thanks for keeping an eye out.
Am thinking reallly hard on this way. I'm sure he's not in Upper Michigan. Could he have run away? Have you been keeping him clean? Did he want to go for a tip in the sea and then had so much fun surfing that he can't find his way home again? (shhh…don't even want to suggest that he may have drowned.) Perhaps he's at that teenage stage. Just hangin' out with the other recyclin' bins downtown. Smoking cigarettes and then tossing the butts into each other. The possibilities here are endless!!
I thought of checking Santa Monica Beach, I did. But it's raining, and it's just not beach weather. The problem is he looks just like all the other recycling bins, except for those few identifying marks I mentioned. And then to think, my bin, downtown, smoking? Why didn't I see this coming? Why didn't I see the signs? Maybe I took him for granted. Well, it's too late to change now…unless he comes home. If he's hungry, I have an empty carton of milk and a few cardboard boxes just waiting.
The thought occurred that the trash collectors finally broke it in two, and were too embarrassed to leave the pieces, so it may have joined with so many of it's plastic comrades in that great re-cycling depot in re-cycle bin heaven.
R.I.P. Or not…..
But you might want to enquire with the city works department to see just who would be responsible for the cost of replacing it, should such an incident have happened.
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I shall call the Los Angeles Department of Missing Garbage Bins tomorrow and see exactly what they have to say for themselves. Hopefully it's their responsibility to pay.
Thanks, and if it is so, I'll invite you to the services - online of course.
Here Ben… here Ben… come out come out whereever you are.
Rob
Well, the spanking new replacement bin has arrived today. I guess I will never know what really happened to my original, but at least I now have a hungry cannister ready to devour recyclables. Yay!