The Bud Light can design was introduced in 2004 and lasted until 2008. Being one of the most disposable items, I'd guess the pile was made in those years.
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Beer can might also have a best before date stamped on the bottom
That tracks with my cassette player estimation: 2002. Presumably they didn't trash it while new, but it doesn't exactly scream quality, so it wouldn't surprise me if it died shortly after the warranty expired.
So if I were to guess: shortly after that bud light can was introduced, so 2005ish.
Questionable parenting with questionable taste in "beer"
Early 2000’s 12 y/o with questionable parents
Yeah, I was looking at that cassette player and thought 2002 or thereabouts
everyone keeps saying 80s or 90s, yet completely miss the spool of blue Ethernet cable under it all.
everyone is pretty spot on with the boombox and toy.
based on that plus the Ethernet, plus the age on the items. I would say it's been there since between 2001-2010.
I don't think its ethernet cable. I think its string trimmer line. Look at the size of the football grips, and consider that they are closer in frame than whatever type of cable that is.
Also, I'm pretty sure that is some species of Galium growing around there, probably maybe Galium arvense? Vining habit, whorled leaves, disturbed spaces, etc.. Its stem is pretty narrow. Much narrower than ethernet cable.
https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-taxon-detail.php&taxonid=4767
I think you're right. I can kind of see a spiral on the blue cordage but it's too pixelated to be for sure.
I installed pallets of internet cabling in the mid 90s
I have no doubt, but it wasn't something that was so common that you'd leave a whole spool of it out in a pile of junk.
getting your hands on the stuff took effort and it wasn't cheap back then either unless you were running a business in IT infra.
While it looks like ethernet I don't see a plug on it, so it could be any ethernet looking cable (coaxial, rj11, etc). Could be wrong though
2000-2010 seems a pretty good guess though, who would throw brand new stuff away
Bottom center looks like a Fisher Price Fish-N-Reel toy circa 1995.
The Boombox appears to be a Lennox Sound CT-731, That listing features a picture of the bottom of its box bearing a copyright date of 2000.
That's been only out in the weather a year or two but I recognize the patina of being stored in a hot garden shed for decades. Someone cleaned out the back of their shed and dumped it.
Two would be pushing it. The leaves would have matted more and built up in greater amounts. Put out last spring is my estimate: that's one year of detritus.
Assuming this isn't just two feet off the side of a trailhead or something.
Could have been dumped over multiple seasons, too, not necessarily all at once.
The moss growth on one of the items doesn't look within a year to me, at least, but I'm also not a biologist.
That's very possible. On second look there are a few materials that seem more set into the ground. However even the plant growth over them still might fit a time period that includes this currenr spring and last spring. (Assuming this isn't Australia or anything.) But it could be a favorite dump site for some slumlord in the area.
Also, I have seen garbage piles with moss because the landlord had scraped everything out of a property and dumped it into a ravine. Moss and other plants could easily come with the dump too. But it's also on netting material which is great for rapid moss growth. But more than one dump is very plausible.
I'd say late 80s to early 90s trash, that football looks like one I bought at a garage sale in the 90s but was at least 10 years old when I bought it. Plastics often have production dates, a small circle of numbers from 1 to 12 with an arrow points at the month of production with the numbers on either side of the arrow being the year.
That radio looks late 90s to me, possibly even early 2000s. Definitely not 80s.
Yeah, based off the radio and memories I'd put it late 90s early 00s. All my radios from the 80s-mid-90s had much more squared corners.
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Depends on the parents
What kind of people just dumps garbage like that - what are they thinking? why? whar has happened in their life?
I did solid waste dump responses when I worked for a health department.
When people who can't pay to dump have trash, they dump it in the woods, ravines, forestry roads, etc.
Usually the drive to dump trash is when someone dies and someone else is having to clear out their effects, be it family, a landlord, or some worker. Or someone is evicted from their home, vehicle, or encampment.
Otherwise most people hoard it until they die or are evicted.
There's an extra layer of mystery with it being in a wooded area with no path in or out
Looks like a toddler or a young child might have some fun with it, but I wouldn't recommend letting a child play with trash...
Parents should clean up that trash.
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