This is getting ridiculous.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Someone stole our recycling bin.

Again.

My roommate brought the trash cans in after the garbage pickup, so I didn't realize it until I went to put something in the bin today. This makes the third time that our recycling bin has been stolen. Our trash can has also been stolen at least three times, though this latest one hasn't been taken yet. Everything's been clearly labeled with our address. I've even gone out on the night before trash day to see if I can find someone who's put our bin or can out with their stuff in it, but to no avail.

Has anyone else in the Highland Road/Morrison area had issues with this? Or is there just someone out there who's trying to mess with me specifically? It never seems like any other cans or bins from our building go missing. I've already spent about $45 or so on trash cans, which is just ridiculous when we've never actually HAD more than one at a time, and I've had to send my boyfriend out to get me a new recycling bin on his day off because they're never open at times when I'm not at work. I won't have time to get a new one now until after Christmas when I'm on vacation.

Gah. I'm bloody fed up with this crap.

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[tisana.livejournal.com]

I had that problem in Winter Hill--the recycling bins got stolen a couple times, and living in the Tufts area it disappeared once (to be returned a few weeks later, as it had the address on it).
I'm told they're not usually stolen for recycling, but because it's a convenient storage bin...so you may never actually see it nearby.

Um...paint the next one with really ugly and obvious paint or dirty pictures? Maybe they won't want it.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Eh, I think that around here, people would go, "Oh, cool!" if it had different colours or pictures on it, no matter how unattractive.

[unsi-sempai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ours got stolen four times when we lived on Winter Hill, even though I put our address on it in huge block letters. One of the times, I saw it across the street, but it was behind a locked gate, so I couldn't steal it back.

Ever since we moved to the Davis area, it hasn't happened once.