I quickly open the back door to the van and we shove them in. After getting them home, find two vintage English 3 speeds in remarkably good shape.
I like that, don't even look at them until you get them home.
Nice find.
Milwaukee city has in the last few years implemented a Recycler's License (or verbage to that extent) making it functionally illegal to snag people's bikes and such from their garbage piles without a license.
It still happens, but you have to be expedient about it.