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  • dumpster diving is not illegal, hence why police routinely search suspect's garbage out in public view

  • How to be a FREAK-gan

  • When I was 8 we saw our first dumpster diver i was so interested that i started doing that got a new bed and furniture and money!! :D

  • so some people do choose to live that way.........

  • This was...not well researched.

  • How to be a hobo

  • how to be a hobo

  • no bills to pay. im wit it

  • If you think that squatting is illegal, try living in California where they have claimed squatter right in that state.

  • OMGGG DIDNT KNOW THIS EXISTED!!!!

  • so bascilly this video is telling you how to go to jail. how fun

  • I went dumpster diving once and found a huge roll of wire

  • Why the hell would you sell your car? It is a much better living place than a 50 something year old building in the middle of a projects.

  • Howcast is retarded it's not illegal at all I found this video from watching one about freegans on the news I completed legal

  • @sailer165703 It's illegal to dumpster dive where I live. Dumpsters are private property and the police with harass you and most likely arrest you. Sucks.

  • @siszam well im sorry

  • So basically, if you are a Freegan, you are cponstantly breaking the law? That sounds like a wonderful way to live!

  • so basically a freegan is a hobo called by a nicer name?

  • @TheMagnificentPony yeah pretty much

  • OMFG I'M STARTING TO HATE FREEGANS!!!!!! THEY ALL MUST DIE!!!!!! FUCKIGN BUMS!!!

  • Dont eat mah flowers!

  • I've totally dumpster dived a ton of times at local apartment complexes. If you tell them you're going to do it before you do, they totally don't care. I've found tons of awesome things-once I found a huge tote full of new books. We cleaned them up and gave them to the library.

  • Sounds like a good idea but its not really possible, like what about sanitary napkins?. When they get thrown there used. Nappies?. What about people with specific dietery needs who can't risk eating any old thing?. What if you've got kids?, will you always find their 5 a day in a bin?. Unreliable. Silly way to live. I don't think anyone can be a freegan forever. I think we should have food banks in england where shops give their leftovers, then we get them for free.

  • @ClaireLovesWicca You actually can feed a family on freeganism, but that depends on how hard you look. As for food banks, that will never happen. There's a reason why supermarkets dont give their expired food away, and that's because they dont make any money off of it. Think about it, you could just wait until the food goes "bad" and get it for free. It's better for them to just throw it away if they want to stay in business, less likely for others to use it and for them to lose money.

  • what the fuck shit is this...

  • As soon as they start throwing away beautiful young women in the garbage, I'll become a friggin' Freegan, too. Seriously, I loved your recommendation to throw away your car (as I did two years ago) -- sort of a "reverse dumpster dive" to save the planet.

  • People need food sex and somewhere to live. Hey, why isn't she helping guys with sex?

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  • Chris McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp)...

  • Yeah this is a little extreme.

    But if you think about it, if EVERYONE in the world was like this, being a "freegan" would be perfectly healthy and normal. There would be no garbage lying around or pollution, so it would be pretty easy.

  • so basically just be homeless!!!!!

  • Okay... Err, throwing out food isn't bad guys. IT'S FOOD. It's like taking an apple and throwing it in the forest. Animals will eat it, or it will turn in a tree.

  • i wouldn't mind living like this, i feel free ( sort of) if diseases and germs and crimes didn't exist it would be nice, would have to worry about bills, gas, car problems, house problems, taxes.

  • I'm glad to see you're getting people into this style of living! One point though, for nooblets...you shouldn't just literally climb into dumpsters without looking. You could climb in and get a nail in your foot or something else. Thank god for tetanus shots. Other than that, this video is informative and gets a thumbs up in my books! :D

    (And don't close the lids...you could get stuck!)

  • Does anyone actually do this?

  • soooooo,this is really telling how to be a hobo???

  • oh helllll no

  • Dude that's a good way to get raped/murdered/mugged.

  • walmart gives out free food! just eat it in the store and its free! :]

  • its illegal to dumpster dive because once things are at the street for pick up its technically the governments property

  • Freegan, AKA being a bum

  • Lol, this reminded me of that video of Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where Frank and Charlie became horders.

  • Not my cup of tea but more power to the freegans!

  • this video may as well have been called how to get diseases, does anyone else think this was a bit irresponsible of them to post?... = /

  • This clip is really bad.

    I get almost all my food from skips (dumpsters), but I never really get dirty. Everything is packed and wrapped (unfortunately).

    Very few people in cities for some period of time never buy anything new.

    Being freegan is not like all or nothing.

  • man, I thought saving my brewed coffee for iced coffee the next day was cheap! I'm not going in a dumpster where I'm sure rats frequent.

  • Dumpster Diving, as long as the dumpster is accessible to the general public, is legal as per California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988).

  • Dumpster diving and squatting are illegal because you are not giving these huge greedy multimillion dollar corporations your hard earned meager paychecks.

  • Okay I'm ALL for going green but eat waste like from a trash can is OVER the line. Eating things dirty hands may have touched, cockroaches touching it and flies. And all those germs.YYYYUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1>:P

  • @Ecoanimegrl75 someone doesn't know what their food goes through before they eat it :D

    hate to break it to you bud, but the food's already pretty dirty. take it from someone who has access to both meat packing plants and chicken/produce farms... its not as clean as you think

  • this vide i basicly on how to be a hobo

  • Are Freegan Hobo

  • I don't want to be a hobo or a redneck

  • This is such a neat video. I'm interested in ways freegans do things. I have adopted some that way of lifestyle. When I was in the bigger city. I would go din diving for clothes and other items. I don't know how to go about dumpster diving here..

  • bikes need oil.

  • Would like to do that but right now living within the constraints of the law seems the best way for me to go forward.

  • dumpster diving gross, id nvr be one

  • dumpster diving isnt illegal unless you're trespassing

  • it is in UK

  • I could do some of that but dumpster diving is a bit extreme and squatting is not my thing when I have a home but the not buying new items I do i hardly buy new I would just eat at home instead and buy organic or eco.

  • they should have named this "How to survive being a hobo"

  • Freegan sounds like a bum..

  • This is a vid onn how to be hobbo lol.

  • why are squatting and dumpster diving illegal? No one is using the house and the 'garbage' is just going to be burned or buried.

  • @UniversalTruths

    because the USof A is based on capitalism and the concept of owning property. so if you had a bike, clothes, car, or house that you weren't using at the moment perhaps you might be willing to let someone else use them.most people in the US of A do not share your views.

  • @UniversalTruths it's a capitalistic ideal. It's better for the economy if you are paying for it. Also in the older days (victorian time and such)  moral and manners was a big thing and in that time they decided that it must be made illegal.

  • @UniversalTruths I believe in being a freegan but as a property owner I thought I would let you know the other side. We don't want people staying in our properties because it poses a legal problems. If someone is hurt on our property we are liable. If my insurance finds out people are squatting in my property I could lose my insurance. People don't tend to respect or care for property they don't pay for. Fires can be started, illegal activities carried out, etc. It sucks but it's reality.

  • favorite video ever!

  • Once again.... hahahahahaha xD

  • I love Dumpster Diving... the day before thanksgiving I found a dumpster full of bread and pastries I took two trunk loads to the local shelter. and enough for my family and I to use for the next couple of weeks. Hey why not it's still good? I also have a new desk dived from a local office supply company. Great stuff Dumpster Diving is.

    Get out and Dive, you'll love it.

  • this video is only making fun of freegans..... assholes

  • my spanish teacher is a freegan but she's not that extreme!

  • I don't understand why dumpster-diving would be illegal.

  • Private property/tresspassing laws. Also the waste management companies get government money from trash and recycling, and if you take the trash they lose out on money from the government.

  • @PaisleyPlum me either!! i think it is quite stupid. were supposed to live in a "free country" yet we get fined or thrown into jail for getting things that are technically free...

  • @PaisleyPlum

    because people throw all their personal information: tax filings, ID cards, mails, business documents in the trash; i can steal all your personal information by sifting through your trash: what do you wear, what do you like to eat, what music do you like, ect. ect.

  • Dumpster driving is illegal because the dumpster is on private property and the store could be help liable for any accidents or injuries if they occurred. They might be held liable for any sickness or death from food taken from a dumpster.

  • @chechnya

    exactly

  • @PaisleyPlum because reusing items means no tax profit over every new thing you buy. You can thank your government for that.

  • @PaisleyPlum It's simple: the freegans don't buy food :)

  • @PaisleyPlum cause dumpster are property???? idk but it seems like it

  • @PaisleyPlum

    That is because thief can steal anything out of the dumpster, including your identity.

  • ROFL did u notice she came out of the dumpster with a new skirt??? LOL

  • This is basically saying... Be a homeless person! :)

  • It's saying, "Don't be a wasteful, consumerist pig."

  • eat food out of a dumpster? now i've seen it all...

  • roach's rats cigarette butts

    spit coffee grinds no

    refrigeraton

    DONT DO IT

  • Dandelions are edible.

    And delicious.

    But not as delicious as birch tree bark.

  • Maybe I could get lucky in that dumpster & find FREE feces with some free juicy parasites & bacteria! YUMMMMM

  • i would never get anything off a dumpster

  • same lol

  • why would someone wanna know how to be a hobo? you dont CHOOSE to be a hobo, you just are and theres nothing you can do about it.

    this is like a big joke.

  • "How to be a hobo''

  • In the words of George Carlin...

    "The Planet is fine

    But, The People are Fucked"

  • theres a big difference between going through residential trash, i.e. waste food and cleaning products from someone's house, and going through trash from a supermarket or grocery, i.e. boxes full of unopened containers or ripe fruits

    nobody's suggesting you root through some dirty diapers to get a piece of raw chicken that someone dropped on the floor

  • @khalithistle

    That's the point.

    First do supermarket, then when they 'll run out of bizness,we'll do residentials...

    unless "solient green" become the ultimate solution...

  • This is really meant for the people who are tired of having everything handed to them on a silver platter...

  • Freegan? is that what the call bums nowadays?

  • dig around in bins till you get stabbed by a dirty hypodermic needle. Nicce...

  • maybe a side hobby

    Or a sexual thrill.

    but i bet i'v seen you coming from my dumpster.

    Found a nice old shoe yesterday.

    too small for me.

    but there was gum worn into the bottom.

  • How To Make a Living As a Tramp

  • be half freegan.. it saves money... and it wont be illegal

  • so arent most foods that are discarded by restaurants and eateries expired and can make u sick?

    I love thrift stores though! they rock!

  • ??? hobo? NOOO!!!!

  • Step 1: Get a friend you can trust

    Step 2: Go inside an extended stay hotel.

    Step 3: Spend some time listening through doors in the hotel, if you hear a tv, talking, or a radio then avoid it and move a few doors down

    Step 4: Signal your friend to start a power outage, which'll make ALL the cameras go out. as well as electronic locks ¬.¬

    Step 5: Bust the snack machine open and get tons of food and quickly get into the newly opened room door.

    Did you know, barely anyone does either of these?

  • someone did this on the hotel I was staying D:!

  • So, the kids from Slumdog Millionaire are freegans?

  • so, ur basically a bum lol

  • This made me happy

  • Awesome vid!

  • We should make a toilet thats eco friendly to? That will filter your Co2 shit that you enviros release into the ozone! Better yet we should just invent exhaust pipes for enviros! So they can shove it up there ass and release clean air into the environment save the planet put an exhaust pipe in your ass!!

  • @hogsonquads They do. It is called a compost toilet. Well not sure about the rest you said, but it is suppose to be eco friendly. hehe

  • 95% of all teens would go into a panic if the Jonas brothers were on a 100 foot building about to jump. copy and paste this if you are one of the 5% who brought popcorn and yelled '' JUMP B!TCH JUMP!"

  • Rename video on... how to become a bum

  • People in Asheville really try to do this.

  • ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?

  • Yes, they are.

  • Hilarius!

  • So basically.... freegans are bums.

  • I had a construction job on an U.S. Air Force Base and looked into a dumpster and saw the remains of meals provided to flight crews un-opened candy bars, small cans of fruit juice, chips, sandwiches ect, ect the first day the other members of my crew laughed at me for dumpster diving the second day they commented on all the good stuff I was getting the third day I had competition.

  • Hahah thats awesome!

  • What's funny is that Squating is indeed illegal, yet some states also have laws which give ownership of land and building to squaters if they have inhabited the land for a certain amount of time if no one else claims it.

  • squatting is not illegal come on this is misinformation

  • Since when is dumbsterdiving illegal... um no only in the UK

  • being a freegan looks hard ;l

  • soooooo... become a bum? Weird, i thought they were just homeless people. I guess the guy with crazy eyes asking me for change is just a freegan.

  • recycling: good. Growing your own food: good. Asking resteraunts if you can buy food that would go to waste: begging... but OK.

    Eating food out of a dumpster when you have the choice not to: Unsanitary, and stupid.

    If you're going to that extreme... invest in a GOOD tent... and go camp somewhere. There's plenty of food in nature. That's not in a dumpster.  Hunt your own deer ;)

  • isnt freegan just acting like a homeless bum? Why would you want to be that?

  • Because it allows you avoid unintentionally supporting crooked corporations, and keeps food and items from going to waste.

  • ok, but i dontt want to be a bum so fuck it ill buy my food like normal people do

  • loser

  • thanks to the lousy economy we'll all be freegans soon...

  • Wrong, freeganism would completeley crash the economy and then itself since you can't have freeganism without mass consumerism!

  • This is what i have always thought... how can people just let so much go to waste? But there are actually good people in this world :D hopefully I will become one of them one day ^^

  • this is wtf inpossible to me

  • cool vid

  • WTF?!?!?!?!?

  • Do not fart! Scientists at University of Tanganika Davis

    have recently dicovered that fart gas contribute to global warming.

    If you have to fart, fart in a bag and seal it

    -you could use it later as a balloon at your birthday party. Such a balloon will be called green-fart-birthday-balloon.

    Go Green!

  • haha, your funny!

  • In the words of storkhater, HOMELESSNESS For The Win!

  • Freegans, eh?

    Used to call them Dumpster Divers in my day...

    ..before that they were called HOMELESS PEOPLE.

  • Dumpster diving gets you alot of stuff, not just garbage! Appliance shops throw out TVs because they're scratched, food is thrown out because the package is dinted...the only thing wrong with it is that it's in the (often clean) bin.

    This video makes us look like we'll take anything that's free, and damn the hygiene and safety! Not true. Freeganism is about lowering your consumer level by re-using the vast waste society produces. I've been a freegan and I recommend it.

  • Lol... often clean? I wonder what the awful smells coming from dumpsters are... maybe bacteria? Not to mention, dumpster diving is illegal. Food is thrown out most often because it's EXPIRED. It doesn't last forever. Sometimes spoiled food might not harm you, other times it will. Our society can't produce the exact amount of food to feed the exact number of people in the US, hence some goes to waste. That's better than not having enough food to support people, right?

  • Maybe dumpsters are just better here in Australia. Not just spoiled food is thrown out- and often its not actually spoiled; the date is set earlier than the food decays for legal reasons. Aside from food you can get TVs, stereos, A/Cs...

    Saying having too much food is better than not having enough is like saying 'well I have gonorrhoea, but at least it's not syphilis'. When the food industry gets its act together we can stop skipping for food. Till then, we make the best of a bad situation.

  • wtf why would someone choose to live like this?

  • To avoid a job.

  • This video should be removed from YouTube for promoting illegal activities... seriously if they are gonna remove episodes of shit I can see on TV then they damn well better remove this... double standards I say.

    Furthermore what a stupid place to promote being a bum... if someone needs a refresher or tips on what to do because they already are one they can't see this...

    THIS IS ALL ONE GIANT JOKE RIGHT???

    (though the scabbing stuff that others chuck out is alright)

  • What's illegal about it? And about the TV thing, go watch TV.

  • They are promoting squatting and dumpster diving which the the video itself said is illegal. Promoting of illegal activities is illegal.

  • Dude, settle. It will be ok. It's just the internet.

  • Freegans Are hobos !!! you are telling people to be homeless and be frowned upon by society!! and by telling people you are a freegan you are making people think you are just some crazy homebum!!

  • hahahhaa hoboness!

  • ITS HOW TO BE A HOBO

  • If one needs to fart why not have a 'fart bank' established at your business or suggest such a concept to your employer who I'm sure would be most willing to impliment such an inovative idea. Every fart produced will be collected from each employee ( & visitor) thus allowing the storing and using of gas matter for generation of electrical energy. Also shit produce by employees can also be composted for organic food production which can supply a local eating facility and burbing can be used t..

  • What type of waste? As in human waste or that it just goes bad? lol

  • Gets thrown away.

  • HOBO LIFE!!!

  • ummmm... it helps the environment, but its going a little TOO FAR.

  • So you're saying that everytime I go to San Fran and see all the homeless people with their bags and shopping carts, I shouldn't think "Man, I wish there was something I could do for them" or "Damn this economy" or "This dude really needs a mental hospital" - or anything along those lines. I should, instead, think of them as adopting the freegan lifestyle. And the lice-ridden lady who has a cat on a leash, and is eating scraps from the garbage is merely a big-ballin' uber-freegan. Ok...

  • you guys seriously wake the fuckup HOMELESS PEOPLE do this every day and your making fun at there expense WANKERS get a life

  • YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

  • They are asking you to do something illeagal?!?!?!?!? they are SOOO taking it too far.