Expired Beer Theft: Crime or Waste Management?

Two Columbia sanitation workers who apparently couldn't stand by and let beer go down the drain allegedly took dozens of cases of expired brew from the city landfill. Police and city supervisors are trying to determine if the salvage was a crime - theft of city property - or just a policy violation. The city was just going to destroy the beer anyway so I don't see the problem, and everyone I know including myself would have probably done the same thing. Click on the pic for the full story.