The New Theft of Choice In Crown Heights, Garbage Bins
by CrownHeights.info
It used to be stealing cars, then it was stealing packages, and now it’s stealing garbage cans? Have even the thieves gone through Yeridas Hadoros?
Actually no, the garbage cans are just worth a lot of money.
Since New York City mandated the purchase of city-sold garbage, recycling, and composting cans for garbage collection, a new black market for “redistributed” garbage bins as rocked the criminal world. Crown Heights, being at the forefront of such cutting-edge thievery, has seen a spike in garbage can thefts.
Selling online at $53.01 for a 45-gallon bin and $45.87 for a 35-gallon bin, the benefit of stealing them is significantly higher than the previous criminal target, your package with a Walmart-ordered pair of socks. It’s also easier to steal, as you, the homeowner, conveniently place the bin on the street outside your home at least twice a week.
In a recent incident involving a stolen garbage can, an alert homeowner, a quick Shomrim volunteer, and a rather sorry thief, the shocked homeowner watched as the thief dumped his full garbage can all over his driveway and started walking off with his bin.
Shomrim responded quickly and was able to catch up with the thief. Thankfully the homeowner has marked his garbage can with his address, allowing identification of the can and the return to its rightful curbside space.
To help protect your property and deter thefts, spray-paint or mark your bins with your home address, tying the can to your home and making stealing it just that much more difficult.
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In other places, the street address is prominently displayed on the cans that are ordered from the city council, and only those are picked up.
Every can has a serial number
You can find yours in the email when they delieverd your cans
G.Singh
The only thing still left to steal in Crown Heights for immediate cash. Is the new garbage cans
C R
Classic case of how government creates very real ones problems in their obsessive zeal to solve phantom ones.
I s Sterling
Mine got stolen 2 days ago by the same 2 guys.
G.Singh
A buy back program is needed. So you can get back your lost property at a reasonably cost.
Cars
Cars are still more valuable in most cases, but the insurance to operate a garbage bin is a lot cheaper.
Clean up
Take away alternate side of the street parking and make these people sweep the garbage ( as long as they’re watched to not steal more).
E. Brummel
It’s really not fair for them to do this to us considering that these guys are going to get a lot of money stealing our new cans. However, let a bunch of people get caught doing it and then the word will get around and they’ll probably do it less if they hear the people are getting caught stealing it