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Gurkburk:
Darryl Hannah?

Oli:
I have liberated a couple of chairs and a Jimmy Carr box set (hey. it was free) which is not really all that exciting but far better than a kick in the teeth. Most of the stuff left out in the street here is broken beyond recognition, or pilfered far too quickly for a sleepy bird like me. I am currently looking to make a new bookcase though, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for some planks and some bricks.

I have some good friends of the skanky hippy variety who's best haul is a kilo of Stilton from the bin behind Mark's and Spencer's.

Caleb:
I LOVE finding cast off things.

The huge TV I now use was found at the side of the road in Buffalo NY a few years ago.

I took it home to screw around with it.  I found that the Composite and coaxial ports no longer worked for video but the sound still worked.  Then I saw it had S-Video input as well.  I tried that and it worked awesome.  For awhile I just had my DVD hooked up to it via the S-video but then I went to Radio shack and bought an S-Video adapter and hooked it up to a VCR.  Now it works with anything.

I also found a newer TV on the side of the road recently that I use in the library for classic video game days.
 
(I have a feeling that I will find a lot of nice TVs being abandoned since people don't understand the transition to digital broadcasts.)

I have found so many cool things throughout the years that people just threw away...

Caleb:
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So true.  Piles of lamps and radios and stuff.  One year I was able to make a ton of money when the townhouses at SUNY Geneseo closed for the year.  There were strict restrictions on trash and stuff so if you had empty beer cans they had to be all cleaned out and stacked in boxes.  Some people were too lazy to take them back so there were stacks of empties by the garbage.  I took them back to the store for an easy $40.

Naira:
My brother and I grew up in an area that was under construction for YEARS. We would always go to the construction dumpsters and get tons of cast-off wood for building stuff.

Yes, this natural turned into a tree house. My brother's friends (they let me tag along) eventually built a very large, somewhat unsafe tree house. The thing had multiple levels and even a lawn chair on a small platform very high up as the "look out".

It could only have been built by kids with no sense of self-preservation and unable to define words like "traction" and "severe spinal trauma".

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