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Dumpster diving isn’t just a big-city phenomenon. It goes on in Colorado Springs. In the Shooks Run neighborhood east of downtown, among other places.
These divers are not just going head-first into any old trash bin. They are aggressively targeting certain bins, carrying heavy duty bolt cutters to bust padlocks.
They are not searching for food. Or clothes. Or furniture. They are on a very specific quest for buds, stems and seeds . . . medical marijuana residue.
Thieves, it seems, are stealing trash from medical marijuana dispensaries and grow facilities.
Nancy Strong, a Middle Shooks Run resident, stumbled onto the trend a couple weeks ago while biking a creekside trail.
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