i think i found out why, but i could be very wrong. when trying to access the trash can, the console says:
Richard Jenkins has accessed a container (ID: 242 model: models\props/cs_office/trash_can.mdl). - note the backslash after "models"
every other container i spawned to test this had forward slashes, i.e.:
Richard Jenkins has accessed a container (ID: 244 model: models/props_junk/trashdumpster01a.mdl).
Richard Jenkins has accessed a container (ID: 54 model: models/props_c17/suitcase001a.mdl).
p.s., me and Auster just discovered that none of the storage containers for the CS:S props can be opened. they also share backslashes. idk if the choice of slash depends or not or if the CS:S containers are just fucked in general, but yeah