At about 2 a.m. on Nov. 20, Mr. Longueuil left his NewYork apartment and walked around searching for garbage trucks where he could dump mangled pieces of external computer drives, according to a government complaint.
Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.