Ideal Bite

Wanna make out? Like a bandit, we mean. Slink over to the Chicago Police Department's next public auction to pick through unclaimed and abandoned items. It's only half as weird as it sounds, and nabbing secondhand goods (right in front of the city's finest, no less) keeps reusable materials out of landfills and saves you cash. Besides TVs and media gear, you can grab everything from bicycles (there are an average of 75 at each auction) to clothing to snow blowers. Yep, snow blowers. How that qualifies as police evidence is beyond us, but we're not asking questions. Not us, officer.