Garbage Cyborg

The dumpster truck comes by around the same time a few times a week, and each time I feel like I'm watching something out of a sci-fi movie.

This huge truck barrels with a loud rumble, picks up the dumpster, raises it high over the cabin and empties the trash in the back. As it tosses the garbage out, the huge curved arms that hold the dumpster actually shake the container to get all the trash out, a shaking that looks almost human, as if the truck itself was a sentient robot, shaking the dumpster annoyed at the trash that's stuck to the bottom.

It's freaky cool, actually.




Our guy is so good, he barely slows down, nabs the dumpster without ever leaving the cabin of the truck, sets the empty metal box down, and backs out like it's nothing. Not ever seeing a human being, just a dark gray purposeful moving mass, adds to that grumpy cyborg feel.