I've had that happen under similar circumstances. A huge trash pile was left in front of a house in my neighborhood, unfortunately, somebody beat me to it, but he only took the obvious metal stuff and left behind a few monitors and computer towers. Although he cut the cords from the monitors, he left them whole in addition to the computer towers. Either he didn't want to be bothered with them or, for my sake, he was ignorant of the fact that by going the extra distance and picking them apart you can get more bang for your buck.



He may have stiffed me on the monitor cables, but I got one or two up on his largely shred load that he had by getting at some good copper and high grade circuit board, so more bang for the buck for me with more valuable material that he left behind, either unknowingly or out of laziness in tearing them down...