Goodwill

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

So this evening walking by the goodwill store, there was at least 3 people picking through the donated items left outside to steal whatever they wanted. One guy even told his girlfriend/ wife to pull the car around because they had too much stuff to carry. Its not the first time that I have seen people taking things and I'm sure it happens every night.

This really annoys me because its not only stealing, but it is stealing from a charity. To me, it is analogous to palming money from the collection plate at Church. I know people aren't supposed to leave donated items outside, but that shouldn't give someone license to take things that don't belong to them.

So a couple of questions.

1) Is this illegal? It is outside and I guess it would be considered abandoned property. I don't know if what they are doing would be considered a crime.

2) Is there anything that can be done to stop this?

Comments

[toastygw.livejournal.com]

I probably have some of your stuff then! I agree that it's a good thing to do - I'll take smaller things and clothes and such to goodwill - but furniture and the like gets curb alerted... Haven't needed to haul this big stuff to goodwill yet.