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refrigerators and carpeting. In most cities, each area has a day designated
for discarding bulk objects. Call the Sanitation Department and say you live
in that part of town which would be putting out the most expensive shit and
find out the pick-up day. Fantastic buys can be found cruising the streets
late at night. Check out the backs of large department stores for floor
models, window displays and slightly damaged furniture being discarded.
Construction sites are a good source for building materials to
construct furniture. (Not to mention explosives.) The large wooden cable
spools make great tables. Cinderblocks, bricks and boards can quickly be
turned into a sharp looking bookcase. Doors make tables. Nail kegs convert
into stools or chairs. You can also always find a number of other supplies
hanging around like wiring, pipes, lighting fixtures and hard hats. And
don't forget those blinking signs and the red lanterns for your own light
show. Those black oil-fed burners are O.K. for cooking, although smoky, and
highway flares are swell for making fake dynamite bombs.

FREE TRANSPORTATION

HITCH-HIKING

Certainly one of the neatest ways of getting where you want to go for
nothing is to hitch. In the city it's a real snap. Just position yourself at
a busy intersection and ask the drivers for a lift when they stop for the
red light. If you're hitching on a road where the traffic zooms by pretty
fast, be sure to stand where the car will have room to safely pull off the
road. Traveling long distances, even cross-country, can be easy if you have
some sense of what you are doing.
A lone hitch-hiker will do much better than two or more. A man and
woman will do very well together. Single women are certain to get
propositioned and possibly worse. Amerikan males have endless sexual
fantasies about picking up a poor lonesome damsel in distress. Unless your
karate and head are in top form, women should avoid hitching alone. Telling
men you have V.D. might help in difficult situations.
New England and the entire West Coast are the best sections for easy
hitches. The South and Midwest can sometimes be a real hassle. Easy Rider
and all that. The best season to hitch is in the summer. Daytime is much
better than night. If you have to hitch at night, get under some type of
illumination where you'll be seen.
Hitch-hiking is legal in most states, but remember you always can get a
"say-so" bust. A "say-so" arrest is to police what Catch-22 is to the Army.
When you ask why you're under arrest, the pig answers, "cause I say-so." If
you stand on the shoulder of the road, the pigs won't give you too bad a
time. If you've got long hair, cops will often stop to play games. You can
wear a hat with your hair tucked under to avoid hassles. However this might
hurt your ability to get rides, since many straights will pick up hippies
out of curiosity who would not pick up a straight scruffy looking kid. Freak
drivers usually only pick up other freaks.
Once in a while you hear stories of fines levied or even a few arrests
for hitching (Flagstaff, Arizona is notorious), but even in the states where
it is illegal, the law is rarely enforced. If you're stopped by the pigs,