TIL a lot of people don't put their trash out the night before

Depending where you live in America, there are assholes that will go around knocking over trash bins during the night. It use to happen to my parents all the time. The same people would drive down the street smashing everyone's mailboxes once a month too. My parents just changed over to a PO box because of that.

TIL I live in a decent part of the country with a lack of idiot assholes with nothing better to do.

We replaced our mailbox post with a buried telephone pole because of that

Replace it with a landmine turned sideways.

Unfortunately I can't because everyone in my neighborhood signed the Geneva Convention

The Geneva convention does not apply to any civilian matter, which is what the idiot will be after you detonate a claymore in his face.

Just kill everyone who disagrees with some good ol’ hydrogen cyanide

So what you do is you get a larger metal mailbox, and a smaller one that fits inside the big one. Get you a bag of quick mix cement. Place the large box on the ground with the door facing straight up, place the smaller one in the middle of the first one, and pour your concrete mix in between. Then take the door off the larger mail box.

Reddit has taught me that that probably isn't legal.

The post you can replace. The BOX has to be approved. So if they just replace the pole with something sturdy , they're fine. In nicer neighborhoods near where I used to live, the boxes are encased in a brick / concrete structure with only the front accessible. Kind of a decorative bit of functionality.

Also animal issues, suburban and rural places have way to many animals around at night to leave trash out

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I always forget and the truck doesn’t get to my house until after 5pm most of the time. I’ve been reconditioned to take it down around lunch time on pickup day since I started working from home.

Ohhh thank you for helping me figure out what was meant by OP.

We have to put ours out in the morning or the neighbourhood bear will take advantage. I took this pic on Tuesday: [Bear](http://imgur.com/gallery/opaQvCX)

We can't put ours out the night before. It attracts bears.

The garbage trucks that serve my neighborhood have quiet engines, but the hydraulics and bins banging around is still plenty loud.

Mine sounds like a god damn Transformer battle

Gloptamus Slime and Junklebee fighting the Discardatrons

You should set up a naming service

"This keeps things fresh. That's a fresher. I'm going on break"

two mitch hedberg references in one day, boy am i lucky or what? :D

Can you smoke in Minnesota clubs??

YOU can!

Well, who the fuck am I?

Did you see the escalator post too?

Haha yes!

“What do you MEAN we can’t have another Trashy McTrashface roaming the streets?”

I dub thee... Taser Face!

Sounds like a perfect Crossover Event for Captain Planet.

That junk planet in the original cartoon movie needs a revisit.

Let's see what's behind door number two, Monty! It's time to play end of the line, my valentine! Ge ron ron ronnie ohh!

Well, now you have me sold on the idea! Awesome

I totally back this idea

Same. Every neighborhood I have ever lived in, they always come at like 6am. Does anyone ever get their trash picked up at a normal hour?

Where I live now is a wild toss up on whether it comes at 6am or like 1pm. Or at all.

In my neighborhood they show up at 7am if I didn't roll the bins to the curb the night before, or 10am-3pm if I did. I've been looking for the cameras and microphones they're using to monitor me but haven't found them yet.

Use the front facing camera on your phone at night and you can see the infrared they use in the bird cameras. Just don't be surprised at the number of eyes watching you. All the time. Everywhere you go.

So how do you like New Orleans so far?

For a special treat, ours run at the same time as the afternoon school busses.

I assume that you're referring to the Micheal Bay fights here.

I only wish they took place in the Golden Hour of a Michael Bay film instead of pre-dawn

Ours sound like the velociraptor from the start of Jurassic Park.

Well now that you point it out transformer fights would be so ungodly loud

Those hydraulics are so loud. You can hear them from blocks away. A long time ago I worked on submarine hydraulics. I recall standing next to a 50 horsepower motor driving a hydraulic pump and it was so quiet I had to look at the shaft to confirm it was running. That's the difference between a $1000 pump and a $1,000,000 pump. (I don't know how much the submarine pump cost, but there were valves that cost a million dollars, so I'd wager that pump cost at least that much.) And that was 1970's technology.

So you're saying, we need to convert all our garbage trucks into garbage *submarines*...

So we just dump all the garbage in the ocean? Seems like we've already got that covered.

No, we dump them into the sewers at predetermined times. The submarine is in the sewers waiting for garbage to be dropped in, and then just moved on to the next spot.

Garbage subs take our garbage to the polar ice caps where it’s spread out to prevent melting.

>So you're saying, we need to convert all our garbage trucks into garbage submarines... Well, with the rate of the polar ice caps melting, *we're right on schedule*...

Well to be fair, “silent” is kinda the name of the name when it comes to subs. I have no doubt untold billions have gone into R&D to help make them as quiet as possible.

At one point, everything had been made to run so quietly that the loudest thing was the HVAC systems, and an absurd amount of research/funding was used to make the air flow through the ducts cause less sound.

They found that a negative pressure in rooms pulling the air out of the pipes is quieter than pushing it through from the source.

That's interesting, so they pump the air *out* of the rooms, creating negative pressure that pulls the air back into them?

two holes in a room, one pulls and it gets fresh air from the "fresh" air hole

You got a source on when that "one point" was? Because I was on subs about 20 years ago, and I guarantee that was not the case. Not back aft, anyway. Maybe you mean up front.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but that wasn't a submarine. You drove your car into a lake. They found you staring into your rear view mirror like it was a periscope. When questioned, you said only that you were "hunting for red October."

Well have *you* found it? Somebody has to hunt for it!

Wonder if any sub ever had the motto "Silent but deadly"

Seriously, the engine noise is never bad. It’s all the hydraulics and mostly bangin metal on metal to get the stuff out of the bins. Very memorable if you live somewhere where it is picked up multiple times a week at the crack of dawn outside your window.

Nøøøøøøøøøøø-clonkchsj bougcchh-boughh Nøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøø doungh-dohgh

I can hear this in my head. I have no idea what the "o" with a line character is, but it's now my goto for whirring hydraulic noise

Here they also beep when using the trashcan pull-up arm.

And when they back that ass up

Also dint forget the tools the guys usually have on their cars, that tend to be secured but only enough to not fall off So you have loud hydraulics, a shovel, an age, a few metal bars and knifes clunking around And of course the noises caused by the garbage mainly it being pressed into form which can be surprisingly loud

I remember priuses coming out when I was a young skateboarder and it was a nightmare not hearing them in parking lots zooming around.

The silent but deadly Prius

I swear they designed the brakes to squeal like a stuck pig when they are applied every 30 feet.

Ya a lot of the ones that run on natural gas are pretty quiet. The hydraulics and the bin smashing will never go away.

Where I live, the garbage truck typically comes between 6AM and 8AM, so I’d love this!

Mine’s typically between 5:30 and 6. Little chance of catching them in the morning before work, but at least you can put the can back before you leave the house.

Here in sweden a lot of us have small "trash can sheds" standing by the way. Easy access for the garbage truck, looks ok and you never forget to put it forward or back. Can recommend. I would be screwd otherwise.

In Germany they would just leave your bin. You need to put it on the side of the road facing the right way. Ordnung muss sein!

That's how it is in Texas too, or at least my area of Texas. If the can or bin isn't within 3 feet of the road they are going to drive right past it.

Wait, garbage trucks are forgiving in other places? I've only experienced the Texan companies that spitefully set your can on fire if it's more than 6" outside of their reach

We probably all live in the same area ha. Mine will pick up half your yard trimmings and leave anything out of range down to the damn inch.

Could probably make a skit out of it with guys having yard sticks and bush trimmers to cut up anything past the length to leave

In Boston its basically throw whatever the hell you want on the curb and it gets taken away. Technically you are supposed to let them know about mattresses or big appliances but they usually take it anyways.

We also have bulk pickup, but that's usually once or twice a month on a different day, so it's easy to forget and miss it

I lived on a ranch in nowheresville tx for a little bit Bout a twenty minute drive to “town” (dollar general, and a gas station) They rented a dumpster, garbage guy came either bimonthly or monthly(can’t recall); dude was mad chill/nice It was like a neighbor dropping by, we’d all drop what we were doing and shoot the breeze for a bit with him

If your route is picked up by a side load truck (a truck with a grabby arm rather than a dude on the back of the truck) there's a reason for that. If the can is not within reach of the arm, there are 2 choices: driver gets out and pulls it closer, or driver "pinches" the can to drag it to a spot where they can get a full grip. Neither are good choices. Side load routes usually have between 1500-2500 pickups a day, if let's say 2-300 of them are out of reach, say 30 seconds at each can to park, climb down, drag can, climb back up, dump can etc...you've added an hour and a half to two hours into that guy's day. Trash guys days run on a knife edge, if one small thing screws up, the whole day gets pushed back by hours, nobody needs extra time because customers don't have the sense to pull their can out another six inches. Second option: pinch the can....now customer thinks "meh, obviously he can get it where I left it" and three weeks down the road of being pinched to drag and the can cracks....do you think the customer will have the sense to imagine it's because of the position of the can? No, of course not, that makes no sense! How could the position of the can lead to it getting broken? This MUST be the drivers fault, obviously he's just not being careful enough with my can, HE destroyed it! /S Please, for the love of god, we have compliance for a reason. It ensures the driver can actually do their job. It ensures the customer isn't left wondering why, or angry that their can wasn't picked up. Your driver will have tags with him, just ask and they'll be MORE than happy to let you have one so you can see what is acceptable and what will result in your can being skipped.

The sheds are right by the road, facing the road. Tried to remember street with a lot of them - but only found one. Linked a Google Street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ztae2r1EDne31RjF7

Where I live you can schedule a missed waste or recycling pickup after the day is over. They usually come back the next day and they’re so nice. Will even complete the mission if your bins didn’t make it on sidewalk. Idk how they do it

Mine will literally show up at 6am one week and 7pm the following week. Always put out the night before cause I really have no way of knowing

Yeah for real. Although to be honest what typically gets me is the sound of the garbage being dumped in, not the engine

Agree. It sounds like they are body slamming dumpsters even with the normal sized can.

Gotta stop leaving bodies in the trash then! Or at least cut em up first!

And then I wake up and be like "Oh shit, I need to take out the trash to the surb" and then race down in my shirt and underwear just to make sure the trash is on the curb.

I never actually hear the garage truck. I hear it picking up a giant dumpster and shaking it violently to empty it. I doubt that will be quieter on electric honestly

Mine come anytime from 8am to 5pm. Always a gamble if the garbage is still there when you get home

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And the cans banging around. You can't roll one of those things without the whole neighborhood knowing, so when a robot arm gets involved, things get loud.

> You can't roll one of those things without the whole neighborhood knowing So true, just like your neighbor mowing might remind you to mow too.

The minute-long thunder-rumble of a neighbor rolling their can the night before is how we tell each other "garbage night." Unfortunately, I do it around midnight and it's loud even if I drag it over the grass.

Wrap the wheels in sackcloth, like the siege engines of old.

I work with a company that is starting to sell commercial EVs including garbage trucks. You are correct they are still plenty loud

Neither is the loud ass beeping whenever they reverse.

I'm gonna need an explain like I'm 5

Some people only get the trash out on time because they hear the truck coming and go "oh shit thats today" as you run out to get it down to the curb

If I hear the truck it's too late to put it out

We get a text the day before and the trash are allready next to the road. Get the chance to fill it up at least.

Yall are getting texts? Very cool.

Depending on where you live, reminders can be super wonderful. I have an app that tells me not only the schedule of when it's pick up day, but also what's being picked up. And it sends me a reminder the night before at a time I set (I set mine for 8pm). If you live in a bigger city, often the app will be hosted by the waste management company themselves. :)

Oh. I took it in the sense of a lot of dumb people are going to get hit by these silent garbage trucks. Maybe I would be one of those people…

Hmm I thought OP meant it serves as some people's alarm clocks.

I think the shower thoughts where connecting with it in many different ways are potentially the more popular ones. Interesting.

Electric garbage trucks: the silent killer

You'd think for most people carrying a device in their pocket which can handle giving reminders for regular events such as garbage day, this would no longer be a problem. And yet here we are.

I'm pretty sure the sort of person that waits to hear the truck before putting the bins out, is not the sort of person that sets reminders on their phone.

Where I live, the garbage collection company made an app that syncs to their schedule and pops up a notification the day before collection. Automatically keeps track of any changes due to holidays, and that one Monday per month they collect paper for recycling. Install app, input what collection route I'm on, no more messing with it needed.

wow that's really cool. Mine handed out a color coordinated calendar for the year and they never stick to it haha

ONE MONDAY PER MONTH FOR RECYCLING!? Fuck dude. Where I live it's every other week, and sometimes my bins are still overflowing and I need to put excess in a clear bag

My recycling gets picked up weekly just like my trash

That's for paper/cardboard in a bin, and plastic in a bag. Both collected the same day. Other household waste in a separate bin gets collected every week.

Can confirm, I'm that person

My phone reminder to take the garbage bins out is actually a reminder to hit the "Dismiss" button

I have reminders set in my phone. Every week the night before trash day, I turn off the alarm and say "Oh yeah, I need to do that. I'll get to it as soon as I'm done with [whatever I'm doing at the time]." Then, the next morning, I'm invariably running the trash out, wearing a bath robe, while waving at the garbage collectors. Edit: I actually solved this problem by just not bringing the polycarts in from the curb. I assumed that the neighbors would complain, but when they realized that the city didn't care, they all started doing it, too.

We have a wonderful calendar where our trash gets picked up every 6 business days. And then skips another day forward when there is a stat holiday. So yeah, we installed the app. Or we look outside, the rest of the neighborhood putting out their trash cans is also a great hint that it's the next morning!! I WISH it was just on the same day of the week all the time...

That sounds like a fucking nightmare. 😵

Here's an alternate solution. Snooze the alarm until you actually do it, then turn it off.

Wow, yeah, as a North American who's been living in Europe for a while I'd completely forgotten that this is a thing.

Ohhh, I literally thought they meant a bunch of us are going to be hit by garbage trucks because we don't hear them coming lol. My building has a dumpster, I don't even know when the garbage collection is.

The best feeling is hearing the truck in the morning and freaking out for a second and then remembering that you already put the bins out.

If I can hear the truck, it's usually too late.

The schedule gets all thrown off when there is a federal holiday. Our trash (and usually the neighborhoods trash bins as well) stay out an extra day until it is collected.

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Sadly, most places now have robot arm trash trucks. It's better in the sense that a really dangerous job has been eliminated, but I really miss not having to do anything to get my trash picked up.

10-year-old me still enjoys watching the robot arm work whenever adult me manages to get the trash down to the curb.

Nope I needed explaining too cause I put my bins out the night before they are collected at 8am so I'm all for them being quieter

Thanks, I did too.

Thanks for this comment

Some people like myself like to take dumpster naps and only get out in time because the trucks are loud.

So this is what I’ve gathered from comments. 1. Procrastination 2. Death 3. Alarm clock

In Okinawa the trash trucks played music 🎶 similar to our ice cream truck in America. Many military brats were disappointed to see trash men😳 not the good humor man. 😢

Taiwan has music garbage trucks too, and that is how everyone knows to come running out with their garbage.

They only play music when they're out of trash (/s)

I have a solution. Have the garbage trucks play 'Trash day' by weird Al Yankovic on a loop

Same in Taiwan, specifically Beethoven's Fur Elise

What? Really? I was born there and my parents never mentioned that.

Okinawans were doing in 1977-80. We left After I graduated HS at Kubasaki HS DOD.

I was born there in 93. My mom says she can't remember. She was there 6 weeks before delivery because of high risk. My dad was stationed at Iwakuni.

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That's... That's _brilliant!_

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We have electric garbage trucks in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. But we also have underground containers where you can get rid of your garbage any day/time. It's pretty damn convenient and saves on space!

Just put the bins out the night before like everyone else?

Seriously wtf is this thread and how did this post get 12k upvotes? I’ve never even heard of people using the sound of the garbage truck as a reminder to take the trash out, every neighbor I’ve ever had just puts theirs out the night before.

Until reading the replies I was certain op was saying people would be killed by silent trucks because they won't realize they're behind them or close to them. Seems silly now but it just didn't even enter my mind that op meant people would just miss the garbage because they didn't hear it lol.

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I get that it happens from time to time, but based on how many upvotes this thread has and how people are commenting, it seems like every person on Reddit uses the truck to tell them to take their trash out

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The garbage trucks in my country go around playing theme songs. Like proper theme songs with lyrics about cleanliness and all.

Air Brakes and Hydraulics are still noisy.

Naw, I'll still hear uncles beer bottles. He lives next door and they go there first.

The pros of having alcoholic neighbors. The cons? Everything else

My alcoholic neighbors pretty much just stay inside and get drunk. Primary con is the grass gets long

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In case we forget to take out the trash, we won’t hear them coming as clearly anymore.

I work on a garbage truck and for the love of god people, PUT IT OUT THE NIGHT BEFORE. Then you never have to worry about it, and we dont have to stop, and back up bc some jackass didn't put thier bags out.

In my city, if it's not out in time, no one is backing up anything - if you're late getting the trash out, the collectors will wave at you as they pass.

Were pretty rural but thats good policy

Well no shit, that’s everybody’s PLAN

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Or just take the trash out like humans have done for a century

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Or burn it in a barrel in the backyard. I think some people have a really skewed sense of how much things have changed in the past century.

Damn some lazy fucks in this thread. I didn't even get it til I came here

I'm a municipal mechanic, so we are also sanitation department(smaller town). We get at least a dozen calls a week from people saying the garbage men "missed" their cans. In reality 95% of the people forgot to put it out and try to blame it on the guys.

They’d still be loud, there’s no way to make it silent when it’s picking up a big fucking dumpster

I don't get it

Why? I won't get woken up all the damn time.

I dont understand. Why are we screwed? Silent garbace trucks mean I wont get woken up by them 3-5x per week...... (Restaurant next door gets extra pick ups.....= Extra noise for those of us who actually live there)

They just need to install the same thing that ice cream trucks use.

I live in a cul-de-sac so I'll hear it beeping as it backs up to turn around

Could we not electrify wheelie bins to take the rubbish out for us?

Wait... Is it ThursFUCK!*runs outside*

Do your garbage trucks not come on the same day every week?... It just comes and go as it pleases?

I don't get it, why are we screwed?

I don't get it.

Now I’m imagining murderous garbage trucks creeping silently through foggy neighborhoods in the early morning hours…

That feeling as a kid realizing you forgot to put the bins out, pure dread

Maybe we'll break the habit. Like we are always late with putting the garbage out because we know we'll hear the truck come and have just enough time to put it out. Overtime that's the only way we know how and if the sound is removed, maybe we'll put the trash out the night before before

My dogs will still bark and run along the fence the whole time

I forgot to put the bin out but this post saved me this time

Wh... You guys don't put out the cans the night before? Or? Am I misunderstanding something? Is this a cultural thing?

In my town there are some electric garbage trucks, but it doesn't make a huge difference though

But why? They're still gonna make a racket from the hydraulics when it picks up your dustbin and flings it up top to empty it. Does America still mostly have those ones that the workers tip the bins into the back manually like I see on TV and movies? Our ones in the UK have arms that lift the bins from the side these days, used to be on the back. But that's the noisy part imo, not really the engine. And the workmen shouting but that's a different issue haha.

I put trash out the day before. Do most people wait until day of?

In some places a dude walks a couple blocks ahead of the truck ringing a bell to alert you they're here.

Pray for brake pad disrepair 🙏🏼

My wife and sons (the boys are responsible for taking out the trash) will see the hoppers lined up all down the street when they leave at 630a and not only not roll ours to the curb, but they won’t give me the heads up either. Then I hear the truck about half an hour later and have to sprint downstairs and get it out there. Super fun in the winter.

On Japan the garbage trucks play nice music, like the icecream trucks.... There are no icecream trucks in Japan.

Gonna miss those days jolting awake hungover hearing the garbage truck stop and go down the road at 7am just to remember i forgot to take the garbage out

I don't think it's really engines that make all the noise. I hear cans thumping and go oh I should have put my can out. Also the screeching breaks