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Police Reports: There's No Such Thing As Free Garbage

A tag sale operator decided to trash the unsold items in a neighbor's Dumpster.

No Such Thing As Free Garbage  

A Blackfarm Road resident reported to police Thursday that a Dumpster on his property was filled with someone elses trash.

According to the report, the resident said when he looked in the rented Dumpster he uses for construction debris, he found several tag sale signs that did not belong to him.

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Officers contacted the host of the tag sale, whose number was on the sign and informed them not to use the Dumpster, police said.

The resident chose not to press charges.

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Police Lieutenant Brian McCauley stressed that it is illegal to dump trash in rented Dumpsters not belonging to them.

'There is no such thing as free garbage,"  he said.

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