scrappers going down hill in old neighborhood

This is one reason why I still pick up tvs when I see them on the curb. If I waited for the county to do something they'd be there till the next big trash day in the fall.

Sirscrapalot - Smash an grabbers suck.

See it all the time. They sit on the curb smashed for weeks to a month before who know what happens to them. What gets me is that they unscrew the back (sometimes) and break the tube. Its only 2 more screws to get the yoke off.

Also, there is a house two blocks behind the store i work at. The people must have moved out and there are 5 busted tvs in front and they been there for 2 weeks now.

People just don't care anymore , we live in a society of immediate gratification , where a a false sense of entitlement makes people think it's ok to do whatever they want whenever they want . It's a person like this that was rummaging thru my garage 2nights ago . I was not aware until they tried to enter thru my basement and the alarm woke the house .

All I know,of this person is they left a Milwaukee best can in my truck bed . Didn't steal anything just took a 5 am tour and left me a can . I have a feeling it's kids so I'm gonna stake out with my paintball gun and light someone up I have lost all tolerance to thieves .
If they were caught inside I would be shooting non paintballs .

If your to lazy to load a tv , take it home , gut it and recycle the tube correctly . Then your not ready to scrap tvs yet . Story's like this give scrappers a bad name and will lead to restrictions on our craft . Actions speak louder than words , these actions tell me they have no concern for their neighbors or the environment. A true junky mentality

Agree. Uncaring/selfish behaviors such as leaving behind glass and/or other mess is inconsiderate, even dangerous. Worse, is the possibility of a kid getting injured out playing around the the glass or other parts. Who knows how far the glass shards go when it's shattered. Then there is getting the attn. of the powers that be who write the laws and restrictions. No matter how one looks at reckless actions, personally I don't see anything good coming from it. I often wonder if all scrappers went out of their way to be considerate, maybe people would actually start to appreciate the service of free pickup of their recyclables and we might be seen in a totally different light?!

Originally Posted by british

Same over here , the one that gets me is the pickup truck with the man standing up on the back (Totaly against the law - no seat belt - no insurance).
They are looking into backyards over fences and walls to see what they can steal (The local thing is you leave metal items in the back street and it saves the householder taking it to the local tip). Strangely they never seem to get pulled by the police (if it was me i would be pulled every 5 mins!!).

British - Taglineless AGAIN

Hope being pulled by the police dose not sound wrong in the good old USA

LOL...more like..a rite of passage in some areas!

An we can work on your taglineless nature my friend across the pond. I can market any tag line!

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Sirscrapalot - Still trying to get over the "we prefer warm beer" thing.

Originally Posted by rca987

I love guinness at room temperature...

Aside from that, warm beer makes easier chugging.

You can't justify warm beer, I will have to remind you of this next we meet.

Sirscrapalot - I'm sorry did I just gank you? My bad. - It's a wow thing.

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

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Sirscrapalot - Still trying to get over the "we prefer warm beer" thing.

Warm beer NO In the olden british days 'Bitter' was served a little warmer than lagers But not anymore....We have alot of 'extra cold ' beers in pubs now .
Warm/flat beer is more of a 'southern' English thing ....Up north we like it cooler sat in our flat caps and string vests...(See 'monty python' four yorkshire men on utube....British humour)
British - likes to be cooler than his beer ........But fails thankfully

I still take the TVs. It makes the area look better and you can get some copper and shred in the speakers, and the board isnt too bad either. Either turn it in as E-scrap or pick it apart. I have almost a tuff box full of small parts to tear apart when it gets too cold to work in the garage. If it gets too big and im too lazy, I have turned it in as electric motors. As long as they can see a **** ton of copper in the pieces, usually they dont mind taking it in. But I always ask first.

It must depend on your neighborhood and economics. I figured the people who smash and grab copper from TVs are the ones walking about without tools and see an opportunity to make a buck. Around here people just pick the whole thing up and put it in their truck. Before my father died a couple years ago he was at Cleveland Clinic and driving up to that place you would see people walking around with stolen shopping carts full of metal and TV guts.