Spiffy cool thing I found in the trash- no really!

[Alex]

Great find. I hate to be a party pooper though (yeah, me, I hate it) and ask if you're certain the stuff out in the yard was there for the taking.

When I was a kid a similar thing happened (not a drug house but the contents of an abandoned house put out in the lawn for two days) and it turned out there'd just been a gap between the people paid to come empty the house and the people paid to come determine if anything was worth selling. (The first group pretty much just left everything in a giant pile in the front yard.)

Police eventually ended up involved trying to recover crap from half the houses in the neighborhood.