Where do I need to hang out so that I can also score stacks of NUCs from a dumpster?
Alternative approach, hang out outside your target location to figure out when/where they throw stuff, and when trash collectors come. Arrive somewhere in between and dumpster dive :)
How often that is taken into consideration is another matter.
Instead this console just has to get destroyed. And for what? It’s not even like a Nintendo 64 is going to have any personal data on it that poses any danger to the previous owner.
And on the flip side if the argument is that the electronics could be dangerous because they are broken. I probably run the same risk when buying electronics second hand anyway. So I don’t think that should prevent them from letting people pick up things either.
Yeah, most definitely, which is why you need to befriend them before asking, otherwise it's a guaranteed "No, we cannot do that".