Searching through someone's garbage is considered a legal activity when: (A) The trash is more than 14 days old (B) The trash is in the person's possession (C) The trash has left the person's home or sidewalk (D) Stealing a person's trash is never considered a legal activity

Option: C. The trash has left the person's home or sidewalk

Explanation:

When a person throws his trash in Garbage container like eatable items, clothes, bags, etc., right out on the street (public space) he looses his legal right to avoid others to look at his trash. Under the law issued by the Supreme Court of the United States, the garbage cans out in the street denote as abandoned property and the individual loses any private interest or standing to dispute. It is a part of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This looking at someone's garbage is known as the trash pulls, a term used by the police while searching without a warrant.