Police: Frito Lay dumpster diver busted for allegedly stealing expired chips

The Supreme court ruled that if it's in thetrash it's part of the public domain. This ruling was on account of the FBI going through the trash looking for and finding documents proving their case in the accused's trash. However if a company has posted no trespassing signs on their property then you are trespassing. Taking stuff out of the dumpster isn't stealing but they can put locks on them legally too.

That's why the USA is number one in prison population

Well. You should be chased down, arrested, put in jail and have your picture viral in humiliation you hardened criminal....

What a great way to use our tax dollars.

Couldn't find any real crime in Dayton that night? I mean...it's Dayton. Come on you can do better than that.

What's next? Busting little old ladies for putting quarters in to expired meters?

This shit right here is why the public distrusts cops.

I had a friend who worked at free to lay back in the day and would give me a lot of said product, it was great! Too HELL with them now, police should be first responders and pursue REAL crimes. Otherwise, leave his common humans alone,

Any police wondering why they are being shot????
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Assassination over chips? There are true psychopaths on this board.

A guy in my state was shot and killed by police for having a BUTTER KNIFE! Lots of young people shot and killed for same reasons lately, cops kill first and then ask questions...

Sooo, what are you in for??

Sooo, what are you in for??

Bullshit no business is held liable for someone taking something out of the garbage can. Nobody expects anyone to be liable for the contents of a garbage can.

Yup

Liability just makes a good excuse

There's no way they want people getting their ish for free

Exactly on point. I worked as a temp for one of the several Frito Lay plants in the DFW area back around 2000. My assignment was counting whole chips weight vs broken chip weight after being shipped all around the state in a test of a new packaging/shipping system they were testing. I was throwing literally hundreds of pounds of chips into trash bags every day. I asked if I could take a baggie of chips home once and was quickly told "only way you can have chips is if you pay for them, the company gives NOTHING away.

On a similar note... Home Depot is pretty much the same way. Old/slightly damaged merchandise is NEVER "given" away. When I worked freight team, we'd throw away thousands of dollars worth of merchandise away. One night we were throwing away about 50 perfectly good orange 5 gallon buckets, I asked if I could have a couple, was told I could pay full price for them if I wanted them, if I tried digging them out of the trash I'd lose my job.

F*ck Homo Depot... place is fostering with liberal LGBTQ sickos anyways. I quit that job in under 6 months.
They made us endure video after video of PRO-LGBTQ propaganda for "tolerance training" during "pride month", yet I got a write up for playing "Cake and Sodomy" on my phone while working by myself during my overnight shift. F*ucking hypocrites.....

Then you don't really get the liability standpoint.

Wrong state. Could have walked out of a grocery store in Cali with up to $950.00 worth of chips for free!

really?

It's abandoned property and free for the taking, provided it's not on private property marked with "no trespassing" signs.