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    Scrap Drama! Lucky I don't catch these people.

    I come home yesterday and the glass from a patio table I had at the curb which was intact in the morning was shattered all over my lawn. I go out and clean it up and my neighbor lets me know he saw someone who looked like a redneck through his window in a beat up truck pick up a tv from my curb realized it was scrapped and literally threw it down on the glass, mother-f'r. This is the 2nd time this has happened now.



    Rewind about 6 months ago, I hear pounding on my door at 1230 am I get dressed and it stops then starts again, I go answer the door and it is two of my neighbors. I'm a heavy sleeper but someone threw a tv at one of the cars in my driveway, it barely missed but exploded and sounded like a bomb waking up the neighborhood. It left one hell of a mess to clean up and I no longer go barefoot anywhere in the front yard.

    Another time I found a whole box of empty dvds, probably a few hundred I got skunked so I set them at the curb, someone else must have tried to grab them and realized that and they threw the whole box over my lawn.

    I have a video camera I hook to my computer hard drive, but I don't run it all the time since it bogs down the computer, I'm going to build a tower just for the camera setup, especially since I have had my truck broken into 5x in the past year, and upgrade to a night vision camera.
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    uh. easy on the redneck thing dude. you must not be from around here. you may be refering to low lifes, or crackers, tweekers or what ever. but, being a redneck is a proud tradition here. do you know where the term came from, obviously not. The red neck refers to the sun burn on the back of the neck of hard working outdoors people here in the midwest and south. I have been a proud redneck since the age of six, from pulling weeds in the garden, at the age of 9 from driving the tractor in the fields. later in the oil fields of Oklahoma, and humping the paddy berms and jungles of the "Green" land with 80 lbs on my back. just sayin.

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    Setup the security camera to show date and time, and angle them to where you can catch the license plates.

    Turn it over to the police and turn them in for vandelism of property!
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    Would it be easier to just put your trash out in the morning? It works for me, just sayin'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
    uh. easy on the redneck thing dude. you must not be from around here. you may be refering to low lifes, or crackers, tweekers or what ever. but, being a redneck is a proud tradition here. do you know where the term came from, obviously not. The red neck refers to the sun burn on the back of the neck of hard working outdoors people here in the midwest and south. I have been a proud redneck since the age of six, from pulling weeds in the garden, at the age of 9 from driving the tractor in the fields. later in the oil fields of Oklahoma, and humping the paddy berms and jungles of the "Green" land with 80 lbs on my back. just sayin.
    I was about ready to unload both barrels when I read the "redneck" remark. Then I read your post, olddude and decided you said it much more politically correct than I would have. Thanks.
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    I think the terms redneck and scumbag are being confused here. Back in the day a redneck was a farmer who was bent over working the field all day thus his neck got red from the sun! I am a proud redneck!

    ScrapYaHerd sad but I know what you mean. I have one computer just for cameras! Times are bad and there seems to be less and less respect for others by the day!
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    Danm dude thats why i just leave the backs off lets the others know what your doing and to stay the hell off your pile. Was it the guy in the tan/ brown truck. And for skyline and olddude the some of the people that live in that area of town give low life a whole new meaning.

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    I feel like stirring the pot a little....Wouldn't it be easier just to haul your leftovers off then putting them on the curb

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    If you dont mind wasting gas to get to the dump ^

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    That's why I bought my own 2 yard dumpster. Cheaper than renting, and it's dumped about every month for $16.00 a dump.

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    That's part of the biz in my opinion but u know what they say about those

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    I found the cameras were okay but I think my new gard dog will be able to stop acts like this in there tracks!


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    I think op stated his neighbor said he "saw someone who looked like a redneck"....just sayin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
    I think op stated his neighbor said he "saw someone who looked like a redneck"....just sayin.
    Thank you, people sure are quick to jump on your case around here and my neighbor is black so he's probably quick to call people rednecks.......Also there is plenty of lowlifes around here also. That same neighbor was the first in the neighborhood, he bought his house were none others were being constructed so if a white person moved in next door it was their fault, haha he literally said this to me, this used to be old cracker florida. That same neighbor tried to buy a newspaper after getting off work 2 years ago in chrsitmas florida and his business was refused, they wouldn't take his money.

    I pay taxes for garbage service and the guys have no problem taking my stuff so I prefer to use the garbage service instead of driving 10 miles to the nearest dump and paying to dump....My other neighbor worked for waste management and he said they more the truck weighs the "better" they do, just have to put large stuff out on the right day.

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    I now put my garbage out in the mornings but we have scrappers who run in the mornings, two of the incidence were during the day.

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    Im one of those morning runners ill keep an eye out and see if i can spot your pile now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapYaHerd View Post
    Thank you, people sure are quick to jump on your case around here and my neighbor is black so he's probably quick to call people rednecks.......Also there is plenty of lowlifes around here also. That same neighbor was the first in the neighborhood, he bought his house were none others were being constructed so if a white person moved in next door it was their fault, haha he literally said this to me, this used to be old cracker florida. That same neighbor tried to buy a newspaper after getting off work 2 years ago in chrsitmas florida and his business was refused, they wouldn't take his money.
    So because your neighbor is black that gives him and you the right to use the terms "redneck" and "cracker" in a derogatory way? Or just in reference to "lowlifes"?

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    I don't discriminate anyone until they give me a reason to. In the end I don't care who or what this guy was. To do something like that your a piece of ****....I have lived in the same area for 25 years some might consider me a redneck or a cracker, it doesn't bother me it's just a label.


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