Pat lives day to day hunting for meals in garbage bins around Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He insists the food left for garbage he eats is not only safe, but better tasting and healthier than local soup kitchens. Pat also scavenges the bins to find anything of value to sell and support his drug addictions. In the photo Pat finds a needle (rigs) minutes before telling me the perils of “binning” is stepping on them.