The ED mummy who picked clean the pile outside the MIND shop

[Alan Medic]

I saw a pile of paperbacks left outside the Mind shop the other morning. I'd call that littering, particularly as they would be of no use to the shop given it had obviously rained overnight. People who do this type of thing are not helping a charity, they are just clearing out their garbage.

[binary_star]

Al&Em Wrote:

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> Iamyamyam- pound lying on the ground - not mine to

> take: really? I'd pick it up....

Funnily enough, I did just that today. I was on the park earlier playing football and found 80p. Thinking it had probably belonged to one of the girls I was playing with I asked about and yes, someone had dropped it. So, it was reunited with owner. However, on the way home, I found ?1 on the floor. There was no-one immediately in front or around us to ask, so having little chance of finding the original owner, it went straight in my pocket. What else are you meant to do in such situations - post a thread on the EDF asking if anyone has lost money? Give it to the Police? Maybe for a larger amount, but coins - forget it.

[The Minkey]

FFS - anyone who is so slack as to leave stuff outside a charity shop would be mad to take offence if someone else comes along and snaffles it. What on earth do they think is going to happen to the stuff? Human nature, plus ca change etc.. Taking stuff from bags stacked outside charity shops is base, imo.

Moral of story: Don't leave donations outside charity shops when they're closed cause as we all know some f***er is going to come along and take the good stuff.

[Frankito]

If my Mum brought me something home from a Charity Shop I would put myself up for adoption

*pees in the corner*

[Moos]

Anyone who leaves stuff outside a charity shop is asking for it to be pinched or scattered by foxes. Stop being such a lazy fkucer and bring it back when the shop's open, otherwise stop fooling yourself that you're doing anything other than flytipping.

[Alan Medic]

Frankito Wrote:

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> If my Mum brought me something home from a Charity

> Shop I would put myself up for adoption

>

> *pees in the corner*

Any need for that signature tune Frankie? Anyway, what's the case for re-adoption?

[Frankito]

Yawn

*pees in the dorner again*

[Jeremy]

Alex K Wrote:

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> It'll all be used by someone somewhere. A few

> days ago I was startled to see how many ads

> Hungarian websites have for "Angol ruha b?l?k",

> baled English clothes / English clothes by the

> bale, 55 forint the kilo... 'sabout 20p.

How can they even ship it to Hungary for 20p a kilo?

[mockney piers]

Frankito Wrote:

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> Yawn

>

> *pees in the dorner again*

I'm pretty sure she'd be very upset about this!!!

[Sue]

Moos Wrote:

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> Anyone who leaves stuff outside a charity shop is

> asking for it to be pinched or scattered by foxes.

> Stop being such a lazy fkucer and bring it back

> when the shop's open, otherwise stop fooling

> yourself that you're doing anything other than

> flytipping.

xxxxxx

Completely agree (provided the shop opening hours are clearly visible).

[Gilles Dauve]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I saw a pile of paperbacks left outside the Mind

> shop the other morning. I'd call that littering,

> particularly as they would be of no use to the

> shop given it had obviously rained overnight.

> People who do this type of thing are not helping a

> charity, they are just clearing out their garbage.

had a rummage through these but there weren't anything good so didn't take anything.

shouldn't really be surprised that none of you lot had been in the position or required to work in a charity shop as i have, but to whoever was getting worked up none of their stuff was out DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MANY DONATIONS ARE GIVEN? where i was working we sold off 5 crates of books per week at 2p a book just for the space. as someone said, clothes get shipped off to other stores or saved to be put out when they're 'in season' as it were. be real.

[eucalyptus]

Domitianus Wrote:

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> You completely miss the point. A gift had been

> made by a donor to MIND. The goods therefore

> became MIND's. The goods were NOT merely dumped in

> the street for anyone to take - that is obvious to

> anyone. MIND are clearly desirous to receive

> donations which they sell to fund their work. The

> fact that they had been delivered in a manner that

> was not to MIND's liking is utterly irrelevant.

> MIND were clearly not rejecting donations but were

> attempting to discourage people from leaving them

> outside the shop. My analogy wth Royal Mail is

> rock solid. It is a matter of possession. When a

> gift is made by one person to another (whether

> delivered in an ideal manner or not) ownership

> passes from the donor to the recipient. For

> someone else to take the goods is theft - plain

> and simple. This is elementary law.

>

> Fact is, however the goods had been deposited,

> whoever owned them, they did not belong to the DM

> who lifted (stole) them. It would have been clear

> as day that the goods were donated to charity to

> generate funds for charitable work. Why else had

> they been left outside a charity shop? Whether or

> not the donor was lazy or negligent has NO BEARING

> WHATSOEVER upon the ownership issue here.

>

> Let me put it another way - if someone was foolish

> enough to leave as a donation an envelope

> containing fifty quid in cash on the doorstep,

> despite MIND's attempts to discourage people from

> leaving donations outside, and someone came along

> and pocketed it, would you still be saying the

> same thing?

Precisely.