This doesn't date to any "mid-90's"

At any of the rubbish dumps in Falkirk area (and no doubt elsewhere!) 'way 'way back, folk were "rakin' the coup" and scavenging anything useful.

It was (and is) an offence in Scotland, and there was much waste of police resources trying to catch people during the 'seventies and 'eighties. So much for good old Scottish thrift!

Obviously where they went wrong was that they didn't market themselves - had they substituted "rakin' the coup" for a glitzy American name, instead of being arrested, they could have appeared in "Time" magazine and been studied by sociology professors!

Now even street tramps become politically correct!

Eating thrown out food and scavenging through rubbish is the behaviour of a small brown tailed vermin whose three letter name starts with R. Talking of "economic justice" and "environmentalism" isn't going to change it!

Right on the money nell.
It's an ethical lifestyle for the shiny happy people.

#1 I remember tip rakin when I was a kid, used to go up with an air rifle and shoot rats (with the local farmers blessing) while scavenging around for interesting stuff. When I think back now to some of the items found and what they sell for on ebay these days I wish.... hindsight is a wonderful thing.

As an aside I must have been exposed to about every bacterial and viral nasty going during my childhood coup adventures and the strange thing is have never has a serious illness in my life.

Ps if my mother had known where I was and what I was doing I'd have caught hell. I used to stash the gun at my aunties up the road who was a sensible auld lass and was grateful for the odd rabbit and pigeon that strayed into my field of fire.

Actually this "movement" dates back tens of thousands of years, as it's a primitive, but natural way of life.

#5 see http://www.firstfoot.com/php/glossary/phpglossar_0.8/inde...

look under tu for descriptive term.

#5 you're posting this same tripe on many different threads.
These comments have nothing to do with the subjects(s) under discussion.
And nothing to do with me. Nobody in interested in your havers.
Go away.

#5 I see where you've misunderstood - but the story isn't about TALKING rubbish, it's about COLLECTING it.

I don't know if anyone has heard of freecycle but it is an online community who exchange unwanted goods rather than just chuck them away.

http://www.freecycle.org/

Probably a local group in your area.

#5 Nell, stop being a troll. Deleting posts is very trollish.

Thanks for deleting #5's homophobic rantings "Scotsman".
But he's posting the same stuff at #11 & #13.
I suppose he gets out on a Sunday....

14. nell from falkirk

He makes more sense than most of your hateful posts, where do you get off complaining?

#15 what has a rant about homosexuality got to do with an article about people collecting and reusing rubbish?
One of the prime requirements of this forum is that comments should be relevant to the story or the discussion.
These aren't.

Hands up I reported it, noted numpty was blaming you nell but i take responsibility for my actions as i did not want children reading these sort of posts on a public forum, certain subjects should be down to parents, not dings putting us in the position of explaining gay fellatio to a 10 year old who was reading an article and posts while making notes for school debating society.

I have followed the deletion up with a strongly worded email to scotsman editorial explaining how to trace an isp and use the abuse at function to report the address of certain persons no matter what nom de plume they try to use.

I have also forwarded this to ofcom and my mp with a selection of cuts from postings by trolls from the last 2 weeks.

It's also known as "Dumpster Diving" over here. You can find some pretty good stuff this way!

This was known as 'bin-raking' when I was at school and it was an insult.

To intellectualize such idiotic behaviour is reprehensible.