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Originally Posted by Neilk
Incredible.
This past weekend a neighbor had a garage sale. What they didn't sell, they just placed on the curb for bulk garbage pickup. They left a bunch of electronics, keyboards and an old monitor. A couple drove up, woman got out of the car and proceeded to cut off ALL the cables with wire cutters, I assume to get the copper from the wires. Amazing to go through that effort for $1 worth of copper.
I wish the scrap yards would be more accountable for what they "recycle" or at least have a conscience and report seemingly valuable stuff to the police.
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That doesn't bother me so much, if it was out to the curb as garbage and the "recyclers" didn't leave it as a huge mess. Spring cleanup is big business for some folks... You should see them fight over aluminum BBQ tops
Last year I was at the scrapyard one day and two young guys had several milk crates of copper wire -HEAVY duty stuff- that they were trying to unload.
"where did it come from?"
"Um, some guy sold it to us for $20"
yeah right
But those plaques... somewhere along the way, they are being bought by someone who knows what they are, and knows better. The scrap dealer that buys them is just as guilty of public mischief/vandalism as the guys who pried them off.