31.   A prankster, he and his friends soaped car windows on Halloween, filled pay phone change slots with shaving cream or dumped trash cans.

32.   A stepmother routinely bashed him with shoe heels and virtually starved him, forcing the boy and his brother to scour trash cans for half-eaten hamburgers.

33.   Abandoned babies are found almost every year in the city in trash cans, near incinerators, in parks and on the street.

34.   After the shooting, the gun was found in a trash can in the kitchen, the police said.

35.   Afterward, I crouched behind the kitchen door, looked both ways, then sprinted to the trash can to throw the paper plate away.

36.   Bruner was always the little kid stuffed head-first in the trash can.

37.   But can you picture him flipping burgers or slinging trash cans?

38.   But detectives said they believed the baby had died before it was left in the trash can.

39.   But for most others, the stuffed trash can was nothing more than a reminder that still another city service was on the decline.