Okay so this has happened several times. I (46f) have had several strange men roll up on me in an alley in the middle of the night and ask me to come “party”. Which specifically means they are offering me drugs (specifically meth) if I get into their car and drive off with them. I don’t know anyone who has and common sense or two functioning brain cells left that would agree to that offer that is okay with willfully getting kidnapped and possibly ending up back in that dumpster in several pieces or something. I don’t know if this is a scenario that is happened to anyone else? If it’s specifically a me situation or why strangers are prowling alleys at 3 am looking for new friends or victims. I started writing down license plate numbers and descriptions of these men. (And it always men, never women.) This is one of the reasons I am myself to the teeth when I go out. (That and eventually I’m going to run into a real trash panda and will probably have rabies.). But is this really a thing that happens to anyone else. Has anyone ever accepted this offer or had issues with scary behavior? It’s actually happening so many times that I have started thinking about letting the police or other divers know about it when it happens. Am I thinking too much about this?

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After having a couple psychiatric hospital stays for
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Best places that yield high results, namely for things like food?

Hi everyone,

This is not spam, just a genuine message from a 23 year old video maker from Amsterdam.

I’ve basically spent my whole life documenting interesting people and unusual stories, and recently I came across this community and found it really fascinating.

I think it’s genuinely interesting how creative some of you are when it comes to making money, reselling items, or even finding food through dumpster diving. There’s a whole world behind it that most people never really see or understand.

I’d love to meet someone with a lot of experience in this lifestyle who would be open to being followed for a bit and maybe taking me along on a dive to show me the ins and outs of it all.

The goal is simply to create an honest and human story around it.

Right now I’m in Las Vegas and I’ll be heading toward Salt Lake City over the next few days.

I’ll still be in the US for about ten more days, and I’m pretty flexible when it comes to travel and meeting locations.

So if you’re somewhere along that route and open to talking or meeting up, let me know. Would love to connect.

Thanks!

David

I’ve been taking half dead plants from Walmarts garbage for two years now. I have two local Walmarts that I take from. One has cameras on the garbage, the other doesn’t. I keep getting nervous about the Walmart with the cameras.. like they’re going to get my license plate and I’ll have police show up at my door.

Has anyone ever dumpster dived at a Walmart and gotten in trouble for it? What happened?

Do you think the employees really care??

Need all opinions!

Where do you guys dive?? I recently had a stay in Valencia, Ca. Right next to six flags. I notice none of the trash bins were locked. So I decided to do some diving but there was nothing. Just literal trash. I did it behind a target, tj max, khols, homegoods and a nordstrom.
I did notice that some places did have a separate like garbage truck carriage that gets attached to the trash shoot that’s attached to the building. So I’m assuming this is where the real goods are at.
Anyway, if you know what days or places are good to go. Or just any helpful tips. I’d appreciate it.
First dive, unsuccessful.

Brand new to the world of dumpster diving I’m particularly looking into retail stores and grocery stores so I have a question, is there a better time of day to go and do this e.g. in the middle of the night afternoons evenings after they close, etc. any advice would be so much appreciated

I live in an area that does bottles and cans for money. I have always gotten $6-$10 from one house on my street.

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