Hat tip to This or That user "cheech" (yep, that's the type of user we attract, and we're damn proud of it) for sending us this bit of news. Thousands of garbage collectors nationwide are being trained by police and former FBI agents to "report suspicious activity," which means the next time your garbage man makes fun of you for all of the empty boxes of Immodium AD he found in your trash, he can justify his snooping by saying it's to protect America.


This "Waste Watch" program has already rolled out in over 100 communities throughout the country and could eventually grow to over 10,000 "informants" nationwide. Few people seem to have taken issue with the new garbage collector spies, which is good news for the US government because it means that their plan to fully integrate the country into a 1984 dystopia is moving along nicely.

Your This or That moment to ponder: Are you really okay with having a low-paid trash collector with no proper surveillance, law enforcement, or public safety training to spy on your and your neighbors in the name of national security? Don't you think there are better things to do with our tax dollars than enlisting an army of garbage men as a form of Big Brother? 

Do you have a problem with garbage collectors being trained to look out for "suspicious" activity?