So so interesting. So thats the can! I wonder if people that might have been in the bakery might have seen him too? I pictured the can closer to Garden St. and not right in ft of the bakery.
So the person that was dumpster diving was walking down Albany past Garden and towards the bakery when he stopped to look in the dumpster.
Your pictures cleared it up perfectly as I was confused. Can't believe that not one of the press folks published decent photos of Albany so thanks for the close up of the can! The other photos of the bakery were from the first batch of press reports and maybe were taken further away as the press might not have been allowed in close? IDK but you picture makes it easy to understand what was going on with the dumpster diver.
Thank you !
Initially I thought the trash cans would be hard to access with the top on it. But maybe the person was able to lean in a bit and look to see what was inside the dumpster? IDK
Here is HC description:
"In an exclusive interview with The Courant after his release from prison this week on misdemeanor charges of failure to appear and trespassing, the man — still wearing his gray prison garb — said he was walking on Albany Avenue just past Garden Street [BBM] when he reached into a garbage can and saw a pillow".
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While looking at
@thekirbyfamily photo of the trash can at the curb in front of the bakery, I wondered, is it always out there? Or had it been placed there for pickup? And when did presumed dumpster diver (DD) have access to FDs trash?
I decided to look up trash collection schedule for the address (verified from their FB, yelp and pretty much everywhere else! )
Scotts' Jamaican Bakery
1344 Albany Ave
Hartford, Connecticut 06112
According to
http://gis1.hartford.gov/images/New_Collection_day.pdf
The color coded map indicates trash pick up day, for the section of Albany Ave (near Garden St), is Friday. If I’m interpreting their posts correctly,
@thekirbyfamily took the photos, today, on Monday, therefore that trash can must always be at the curb.
Then I started thinking about the day FD made the Trashcan Odyssey of Stupidity ( is that what @lilbitty calls it?)
It was Friday, the 24th. So trash would have been just picked up earlier that day when he started adding his trash to cans around 7PM. Im going to make an educated guess that most, if not all, of the cans on that stretch of Albany, were pretty much empty. Memorial Day was the next Monday the 27th, but there was no trash pick up. According to the same site noted above:
“When a holiday or observance of a holiday falls on a Monday through Friday, regular waste and recycling collection will be delayed by one day for that week. There will also be a pick-up on Saturday during each holiday week.”
So all the trash put in those cans from May24-31, would not be picked up until Jun 1. (LE certainly did luck out when they made their search May 31!) but my real questions here are for the reporters of the Courant article. They make a point of saying they finally found DD after his release from jail ( on another matter) and interview him while still in his “gray prison garb.” Hopefully they ascertained his incarceration dates to help verify his access to the cans on the specified dates. If this DD does indeed exist, and is actually on tape pulling items from the can, it will be interesting to hear the date of his trash pick and compare it with FDs deposit date, and video of all other deposits into the can, and all other removals that may have occurred.
It seems as though IMO, that FDs deposits would have been near the very bottom of the cans...in black garbage bags...hopefully, one day soon, we can watch the video. MOO