They provide a moment's titillation and then they're gone, rubbished by their readers and resented by those who aren't in them.
"I certainly wouldn't go into the Olympics next year if I thought I was going to run rubbish.
For a feathery eyeful of kite, go to rubbish dumps and gardens; they have also been sighted in Hackney, east London.
Novitzky's methods have become legendary – how he would go through rubbish bins at Balco at the dead of night to assemble evidence, how once he has a target in his sights he does not let go.
"Every time you go [through rubbish] there's different things in the bin, but bread definitely is the number one," he says.
Do not go to rubbish bins alone at night.
A more popular trend is to go negative, rubbishing your opponents' position with half-truths and scaremongering and misinformation.
The average Zambian is worse off now than under Mr Kaunda.Some 9,000 Zambians have died of cholera this year, at least partly because the firms that win rubbish-disposal contracts rarely go near the rubbish in the capital, Lusaka.
But judge Florence-Marie Cooper found misconduct on the part of the Slesinger estate which, at one point during the lengthy dispute, hired a private detective who was accused of going through rubbish bins at Disney's headquarters in the hope of obtaining documents.
Inspector Gadget, 1999 Go-Go-Gadget rubbish remake: somehow children's cartoon favourite Insp Gadget – who makes helicopter wings emerge from his hat – was rendered boring in this film version.
