What's the weirdest/worst thing you've found going curbside trash scrapping - Page 3

Originally Posted by newattitude

It wasn't something I found, it was a bunch of condoms in a garbage can full of wire someone brought me. I double gloved going through that pile and tossed em afterwards just to be safe!

So, were they pre-owned, second-hand, or used? lol

lmao sounds like someone else had a dildo one so i'm not alone....

Was doing a office clean out that had water damage from a fire (this part of building was not fire damaged) and they wanted me to clean out all items I would recycle/take for free....well in a office kinda big (take it was a manger or some other kind of boss) inside the desk was a usb dildo...I was a little shocked and looked into it some...it vibed off the songs you where playing on the computer...that has to be the weirdest thing I have found so far.

i seem to have scrapped at least one of everything. But it was ironic the day i scrapped a metal detector

Originally Posted by elitelawnteam1

So now...... what about you? got something funny/weird/cool/creepy to share?

A pic that was posted on this forum a while back. Still gives me nightmares.

metal filing cabinet full of porn.

I found a trash bag full of 6 newborn kittens. Trash bag was tied off and I ended up bringing them to a no kill shelter the next day.

Could never find that house again though, to report it. (Should have done it at the time, not the next day).

RATS!!!!!
I was going to post a new thread about this but I was still too mad.
Last week I picked up an old RCA VICTOR 45’s only record play from my neighbor directly across the alley from me. I opened the top up and the thing was full of a nest. Not just a few chewed up papers, but full!!!
Well drug it across the alley and open the flip up lid and slammed on the ground a few times to get the **** out of it and then took it in my garage and started to bust it apart and a **** RAT came running out into my garage.
NOW I am mad!! I took it back out on the slab and started beating on it (record play) with my sledge and another RAT came running out.
Now the real bad part of all of this is. Rats can be poisoned or shot. But the neighbors I have known for over 20+ years are the ones with RATS in their basement.
Edited to ad. I do know what a house or field mouse look like. THESE were RATS. Young ones but RATS!!!!

Originally Posted by gustavus

it's claimed if you see one rat you have an infestation.

Ya I know
Some of the people around here have this thing about putting food waste in their garage.
Hell: flies, squillels, coons, cats and yes possom stay away from me. CB caps.
NO I don't shoot at anything that moves. LOL

Once you've been in this business as long as I have it's going to take something really bizarre to ruffle your feathers.

Worst case for me was an old house I had contracted to clean out with soggy carpet throughout plus an over bearing animal piss ( cat urine ) that would gag a maggot. The urine in the air so thick it created a haze you could chew on.

Taking that first step into the house you had an instant reaction where all you wanted to do was vomit, all I could do was turn and go back outside for fresh air after the third or fourth entry you kinda get used to the over bearing smell but not the taste in your mouth.

In a situation like this its best the breath through your mouth with a wet rag over to mask the smell then after an hour or so was able to discard the rag and get on with the job.

I've worked as a plumber and would rather climb into a septic tank to retrieve a submersible pump than do another house of horrors.

Burn your cloths after as the cat piss is not coming out.

The woman had lived here for over 20 years with a house full of cats to make things worse she was a hoarder boxes piled to the ceiling in every room yea all smelling of cat piss.

We did get an 8 place setting of Royal Albert White Dogwood China with every size platter and both sizes of tea pots like the full set which did clean up nicely. This China set was like brand new with out so much as a chip or any wear showing on the gold trim.

The most unfortunate part is that my daughter collects Old Country Rose's from the same maker - Royal Albert.