I watched a cop show, might have been NYPD Blue i'm not certain. Anyway a sofa was out at the curb ready for pick up and two guys stopped their van an attempted to pick it up. Well the sofa was being "staked out" buy under cover sanitation department cops. They arrested the two guys only to find a dead body hidden in it. The story continued about the dead body not the sofa.



So it if it is true that NYC has sanitation cops they will be able to keep the scrappers away from the tax profit. Mike