giveaway weekend

Giveaway weekend in Winnipeg is the epitome of editing on a city wide scale. I kind of love going through people's stuff so I took a drive on Saturday to see what was out there.
Oh, before I get to that I should do this:
giveawayweekend.stm
The city of Winnipeg's giveaway site cracked me up.
They advise the public to label the items with "free" stickers so that people won't just walk off with anything they see on the lawn. I understand that people lost lawn mowers, deck chairs, and rumour has it, a cat, on previous weekends. Seriously, I genuinely love my city.
The city goes on to warn about things that should not be given away:
Top of the list? You guessed it - items infested with bed bugs.
That is a handy tip.
OK enough about the City.
I live in Elmwood, so I don't know about other people's experiences. Maybe there were some super fine pockets of giveaway this weekend. But in Elmwood all I could find were a couple of really sorry looking CRT monitors and I don't think people can even give those away. They are going to have to take those sorry things back inside. I don't think you're even allowed to throw those things out. Can this be true? Are you really doomed to have your CRT monitor follow you around for the rest of your life because you can't get rid of the damn thing?
So what's the moral of this editing story?
The city of Winnipeg should do stand-up and editing your life of things you don't need isn't so easy when you can't find anyone to take your stuff.