From the Annals of "What Just Happened"

So today, I took out the trash.

This may not seem like a huge feat by any means, but bear with me a moment. The trash (and recyclables!) had been building for a good 3 weeks, so it was no easy feat bagging them all up and getting them ready for the giant landfill in the sky.

Anyway, I took down two bags full of trash to the basement, where the owners of the building have thoughtfully put dumpsters and recycle bins for just such a purpose.

On the third trip down, the recyclables trip, I chanced a glance into the bin (for what reason I can not fathom now, but it made sense at the time). Upoun looking in, I saw several movies and videogame cases in the dumpster. In the fashion of any true technophile/recyclist, I picked one off the top of the bin, opened it up, and glanced inside.

Nothing. (Obviously, right?)

Now, in an effort to be thorough, I took the next case out and looked inside; sure enough, there was a normal looking DVD in it (Pulp Fiction, I think). This set off my mind like fireworks; 'If I take all these DVD/games out, look through each, and take the cases that have something in them, I can rip whatever info I can off the media, save it to a hard-drive and then sell the discs back to GameStop or whatever!'

And that is when I decided to jump into the dumpster and do just that. After 15 minutes of pretty gross work (recyclable stuff still has sticky residue of some sort on it), I had a pile of a good 50 cases. Of those 25 bore to fruition, and I carried those back into my apartment where they sit in the entrance hall right now.

I guess I'll post back here the results of what happened to these 'dumpster DVDs' and what kind of profit dumpster diving makes.

And how was your day?

Edit: Forgot to follow Rule 10 of the Internet.