{"id":2916,"date":"2006-01-24T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:52:09","slug":"warrantless-searches-in-waukesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/warrantless-searches-in-waukesha\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrantless Searches in Waukesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/wauk\/jan06\/386795.asp\" target=\"_new\">Waukesha County gives cash for trash<\/a>: Selected homeowners given $100 for recycling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Diane Penosky was tinkering in her garage when she heard someone &#8211; or something &#8211; picking through the family&#8217;s recycling bin outside.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce and Diane Penosky of Summit carry cardboard and plastic bags to their vehicle to take to the recycling center. The couple were chosen as winners of a $100 cash reward as part of Waukesha County\u2019s recycling program.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out the intruder was neither a thief nor a critter, but a Waukesha County employee who was sizing up Penosky for a reward for being a good recycler: $100.<\/p>\n<p>Waukesha County is believed to be the first government agency in southeastern Wisconsin to distribute a friendly bribe as a way of encouraging homeowners to recycle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government of Waukesha County has employees whose job entails rifling through your recycling to make sure you&#8217;re doing it properly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who gets Waukesha County&#8217;s cash rewards is a matter of luck.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from community to community, county officials pick a street by throwing a dart at a map. Then they head to that street on curbside recycling day and make a winner of the first homeowner whose bin is found filled correctly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that Waukesha County officials and employees have handled all of the city&#8217;s other business, eliminated crime, and has reduced taxes as much as possible to cover all the minimums.  It&#8217;s just unfortunate that it spends all of its remaining effort and energy not on private enterprises of the individuals in the government, but on <b>freaking going through citizens&#8217; recycling by hand<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Because that would never be abused once citizens become accustomed to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waukesha County gives cash for trash: Selected homeowners given $100 for recycling: Diane Penosky was tinkering in her garage when she heard someone &#8211; or something &#8211; picking through the family&#8217;s recycling bin outside. Bruce and Diane Penosky of Summit carry cardboard and plastic bags to their vehicle to take to the recycling center. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18949,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/18949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}