bad apple scrappers.

[jasmatk]

I put a tv by the road last week it was a 42'' projection tv that still worked only problem is the picture was a little red I put a sign on it saying so .anyway I pulled in my drive way after a day or so and see the tv is taken apart,I think no big deal someone striped it and left the plastic so I go to throw the plastic away and these A holes left a pile of glass in my yard from the tv and also left a pile of broken computer monitors.talked to my neighbor he says it was a wife/husband combo he took tv apart while she broke the yokes off the backs of monitors in the back of the truck,when he was done they left the trash.

striping a tv in someones yard is onething but dont leave your other trash.

[Thogey]

A husband and wife combo?

Your neighbor couldn't say anything to them?

Total POS losers. It would have been a privilege to catch them.

[hobo finds]

Happens by me during clean up week (2 times a year) City wont take moinitors or tv's but people bust them open and leave the mess. Also they wont take glass so when someone breaks down a glass sliding door and removes the alum the glass will not get picked up! If it was intact they would take it!

[Engineer]

Last year I made a nice little "Free" sign out of some fiberglass sheet and a wooden stake for when I put scrap out by the road. Tonight I put it out there with a rusted out gas grill, and the dirtbags stole my sign along with the grill.

(I guess I can just be thankful they didn't bust out the window of the grill while they were here)

[hobo finds]

It's funny how a monitor or TV will normaly get taken. 1st thing to go will be the cord (by the scrapper who has no room or dose not like to breakdowwn monitors. A day later if that someone will smash it and take the copper yoke. If I take any scrap I make sure to take it all and leave no mess!

[jasmatk]

A husband and wife combo?

Your neighbor couldn't say anything to them?

Total POS losers. It would have been a privilege to catch them.

he screamed at them out the window that was the extent of his help.I was hoping it was someone in my neighborhood becouse they would of got there trash returned.and im not sure if they were married or not he just said a man and woman in a red ford so ill be keeping an eye out for them.

[jasmatk]

I would not of cared so much if it was only the trash from my tv,but to leave a pile of monitors thats what pissed me off.

No one has any respect for anything.

[fansubs_ca]

Over last summer and winter I'd had a few instances of a less than ethical
individual grabbing some of my scrap metal out of my yard. They tend to
go for whatever is most valuable and/or the least work (like cans I've already
crushed, they leave the ones I haven't crushed yet for instance). It's pretty
obvious from the appearance of my yard that I'm a scrapper myself so there
is no way this is accidental.

I know these are the people that will eventually make selling any copper very
difficult. -_-

I'd thought of commissioning a piece of art called "a message to a thief", a
giant brass statue of a hand with the middle finger raised, and 10,000 volts
fed to it via buried cable. Only problem is when it rains. ^_-

[messymessy]

Over last summer and winter I'd had a few instances of a less than ethical
individual grabbing some of my scrap metal out of my yard. They tend to
go for whatever is most valuable and/or the least work (like cans I've already
crushed, they leave the ones I haven't crushed yet for instance). It's pretty
obvious from the appearance of my yard that I'm a scrapper myself so there
is no way this is accidental.

I know these are the people that will eventually make selling any copper very
difficult. -_-

I'd thought of commissioning a piece of art called "a message to a thief", a
giant brass statue of a hand with the middle finger raised, and 10,000 volts
fed to it via buried cable. Only problem is when it rains. ^_-

If theft of your scrap was a recurring problem, I'd be tempted to set up video cameras or take a day of work and watch out the back window. I'd just bet that it's someone cruising for scrap on trash day.

[CrazyTom]

The quotient of slobs in this country is increasing exponentially in direct
proportion to the growth of the government.