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From: frankl@xrtll.uucp (Frank Lemire)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.062306.7138@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 30 Aug 90 06:23:06 GMT
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  I think your idea is great, but probably unworkable.  I'm also a "garbage-
picker" by hobby (found over $700 of unused photographic paper this way
a week ago) but I've found that if you go thrashing around large corperations
(like IBM, DEC, etc) you are inviting trouble.  Most of the multi-national 
companies that have building here in Toronto usually have fences around the 
place, and keep their garbage in large bins until the waste-collection
comapany comes to get it.
 
  I'd suggest hanging around Universities, office buildings, small offices,
that kind of thing, but DONT be caught tresspassing at night at Bell Canada
(like I was, but it wasn't a problem, the guard thought I was a bum..)
 
  Always wear old dark clothes, and you'll want to bring along a swiss-army
knife (nothing bigger).
 
  Enjoy your trashing, you'll find some treasures.
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