A neighbor is mad he took a broken shop vac

So the title pretty much sums it up. I’ve been redoing a room in my house and throwing a lot of stuff away. In my city you can put bulk items too big for your trash can on the curb and they have special pickup that will get it.

Put a lot of things down, some still good, some trash. Shelves and an exercise bike were grabbed within 24 hours. Then I put down some more, overall less desirable things including my shop vac. I bought this thing 3-4 years ago for $25 on a Black Friday sale, it’s a no name brand and I used the hell out of this thing. Well while cleaning the room I’m redoing I vacuumed up a whole mess of stuff then I’m pretty sure the motor blew. It was making a high pitch sound and putting off a burning smell. Fine, I definitely got $25 worth of use out of that bad boy so nbd. I put it out in my special pickup trash pile (Saturday morning).

Sunday morning my wife comes laughing and says someone took that shopvac! I was like well that sucks for them, didn’t think anything past it. Fast forward a few hours im working on that room and I hear a knock on the door. It’s some guy I’ve never seen before and he’s pissed. Starts yelling at me that I gave him trash and I’m a piece of shit etc.

I look at him plainly and just say who the fuck are you? I’ve never met you before let alone given you anything. Then he says he took the broken shopvac and it all clicks. I laugh and he gets more pissed and says what’s so funny. I said you took something from my trash pile that DOES NOT SAY FREE OR WORKING, and you’re mad that it’s broken?

He then tells me I’m an asshole because he took other good stuff before so he assumed. Again I’m legit laughing at this dude because you took trash big guy, nobody promised anything. He then said he didn’t want it anymore I said well you’re free to add it back to my trash pile, to which he responded he didn’t bring it but I should come to his house and get it. I just laughed at him again and told him have a good day.