You don't know the law and you don't know basic English definitions.
Gosh, thanks for that useless extensive list of how the word "thief" relates to crappy 1980s crime dramas, Our Lady Peace, syringes and Pac-Man, but you're still not addressing the issue at hand.
Because dumpsters are usually located on private premises, dumpster diving is illegal in some parts of the United States, though the law is enforced with varying degrees of rigor. The California v. Greenwood case in the U.S. Supreme Court held that there is no common law expectation of privacy for discarded materials. Dumpster diving per se is probably legal when not specifically prohibited by state or local law.
Police (and possibly other) searches of dumpsters and like discards are not violations; evidence seized in this way has been permitted in many criminal trials. The doctrine is less well established in regard to civil litigation.
This has to do with Ohio law, not your personal opinion of this woman and her husband.
You obviously don't know the law (in Ohio), otherwise you would have quoted it to prove that what they did was steal. Therefore, maybe keep your arrogance and immature comments to yourself? Yeah.
You can also find an interesting article about this (which bleeds into political issues like Medicare and wealth bondage...) here:
www.thehappytutor.com/2005/01/theft_of_garbag.html
Oh, and the
OTHER issue at hand was her landlord inspecting her apartment with no warning, which IS illegal if they don't give her notice. And I'm pretty sure they can't just rummage through your apartment without reason. They need the police to get involved if they want to search property that is being rented. You chose to ignore
that part of her concern. Know why? You were too busy accusing her of something you *ahem* proved you know nothing about. Your response to the OP looked liked a kindergarten squealing on the playground. Be embarrassed.
