It was sitting in their living room, but the door was open, and that's generally a sign that you can help yourself because they don't want those things anymore.
Several years ago I was living in a second floor apartment complex. Anytime I had something I wanted to get rid of such as lamp, chair, couch, etc., I would put it in the hallway. Whatever the object, it would always be gone within 30 minutes. Saved lots of trips to the dumpster.
Came home one day and had a box with 6 baby rabbits in front of my door. I guess someone knew I had a cat and thought I'd feed them to it. I didn't. Cat actually liked to watch them. I went to PetsMart, bought some of their milk formula and tried to get them big enough to release, but couldn't do it. One of them lived over 2 weeks and that was the best I could do. (Sort of deviated from the trash story...sorry.)