Don’t Eat This Trash Can

Posted on July 19th, 2008 11:17am by Wick Allison
Filed under Local News

Dan Brantley found this oddly labelled trash can at the Lake Highlands football stadium.

7 comments

  1. Doesn’t seem so odd really. The trash can is telling the user to not put consumable trash into it. You know like food. I’d guess there are other trash cans around that opposite labeling.

    Why two different sets of trash cans? The stuff in the can pictured goes to the land fill and/or gets recycled and the stuff in the other can goes to pig farmers or something similar.

    Just a bit of public school trivia.

    @ 2:18 pm on July 19, 2008

  2. Do you think trash cans labeled “glass” are made of glass?

    @ 3:30 pm on July 19, 2008

  3. can’t some things just be funny?

    @ 3:49 pm on July 20, 2008

  4. Maybe it’s warning other trash cans against their form of cannibalism?

    @ 8:54 pm on July 20, 2008

  5. Sadly, my thought is that the sign was for the homeless, letting them know that there might be chemicals or dangerous items, if people had also accidentally thrown food in there.

    @ 8:59 am on July 21, 2008

  6. This is just camoflage. The trash can is entirely edible, but preserves itself by notifying potential predators that it is not edible. Come on, didn’t you guys take biology in high school?

    @ 2:17 pm on July 21, 2008

  7. Wick,
    Thank you for the mention!
    And Wes, I have to add that the can was also using an offensive odor as part of its camouflage.
    Dan

    @ 8:08 pm on July 29, 2008