The only way I look in a bag, is if someone or something has already opened the bag, or if there is ALOT of items out (like a house clean out, someone passed away and they just tossed all the deceased's items out, etc.) Sadly, I find a lot of bags torn open, and have seen teens and 20 somethings opening them up and cramming papers in a backpack or similar, always afraid they are digging for banking info or something like that... That's why I don't open bags, don't want a miffed home owner calling police on me or confronting me angrily. If anything, I will take a bag and toss it in the truck and open it later, but normally I only take bags that look like they have clean out "yard sale" type items in them and hardly any trash.
A guy I go to church with works sanitation in a local city and it's fascinating the things he finds. The guys actually found a water cooler jug, full of coins, buried under some trash bags in a trash pile one day... It was in front of a condemned house, some locals called in complaining that people were dumping trash there and they wanted it gone. They turned it in and it was never claimed, so it went to them.
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