In many communities around the country, there are annual "spring cleaning" days, where unwanted items are placed out on the roadside for trucks to come by and haul the items away to be disposed of in a dump or landfill.

Often before the trucks come, other individuals will roam the streets examining the items next to the road.  When they find something that they wish to own, they pounce on it and take it away with them.

Others will walk the sides of highways and dig through trash bins, looking for discarded cans and bottles.

Again, rarely are these scavengers challenged as to their right to obtain property this way, any more than the trash-dump scavenger was challenged.  The former owner who discarded the property, severed his relationship of ownership by setting the items out next to the road to be hauled away to the dump.

The former owner had no concern over who was to be the new owner or whether or not there was to be a new owner.  He symbolized his willingness for a new owner to appear by the act of discarding totally something that he once paid good money to obtain.