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parrothead Let's talk ethics - Stealing... 07-06-2011, 08:44 AM
Mick I would like to expand on... 07-06-2011, 10:28 AM
EcoSafe as you can tell Im the type... 07-06-2011, 10:29 AM
Ptscrapper Thanks for the post, I had... 07-06-2011, 10:39 AM
gustavus When ever telling stories be... 07-18-2012, 05:36 PM
EcoSafe along this line I would like... 07-06-2011, 01:14 PM
IdahoScrapper Just thought of... 07-06-2011, 02:21 PM
Mick Usually, not if they go... 07-06-2011, 02:39 PM
Billiard MD "Trespassing" does not simply... 07-06-2011, 07:00 PM
parrothead Same in my opinion as well. 07-06-2011, 10:19 PM
c4f5 That would be my take on... 07-06-2011, 09:39 PM
IdahoScrapper Good to know. Thanks. 07-06-2011, 10:20 PM
TheHoss Reckon yer gettin alot of... 07-06-2011, 11:42 PM
IdahoScrapper Hey bud, don't know how I... 07-18-2012, 06:05 PM
admin This thread just got stuck... 07-18-2012, 09:41 AM
taterjuice Thanks to admin and the mods... 07-18-2012, 01:10 PM
nk14zp Hi I'm new to the site but... 07-18-2012, 03:41 PM
submarinepainter Hey Mainer 07-18-2012, 03:50 PM
tedanderson I agree that there is nothing... 07-18-2012, 08:08 PM
BohemianLush Scrap theft is the largest... 07-19-2012, 09:06 AM
Area67 It must be legit..as a buyer... 11-11-2012, 09:05 PM
street_sweeper I was talking to a worker in... 11-12-2012, 08:45 PM
NobleMetalWorks I was fairly recently... 12-17-2012, 11:21 AM
LJanack Other than the ethical part,... 02-19-2013, 08:26 AM
submarinepainter Scrap theft and illegal... 02-20-2013, 11:55 AM
scrapdollar I figured this would be a... 07-20-2012, 09:56 AM
Mechanic688 Is this the one you were... 07-20-2012, 10:55 AM
Scrapette Sorry but I just now saw this... 09-07-2012, 12:31 PM
scrapdollar Thanks Mechanic688, but no... 07-20-2012, 01:29 PM
scrapperben I bet the tax man gets an... 09-07-2012, 02:09 AM
BurlyGuys Trash night saw a kids bike... 09-07-2012, 04:32 AM
Libertytow Scrap theft irritates the... 09-07-2012, 08:42 AM
Scrapette I almost got involved in a... 09-07-2012, 12:33 PM
Oldbarnz I have seen several members... 11-19-2012, 10:37 AM
BasicMetals Here in Metro Detroit, we're... 12-17-2012, 05:22 AM
Geiser093 The problem is that laws like... 12-17-2012, 06:41 AM
BasicMetals Our GM and I were discussing... 12-17-2012, 07:37 AM
EcoSafe you actually expect law... 12-17-2012, 09:07 AM
tedanderson When you hear the clopping of... 12-17-2012, 09:50 PM
jghilino I prefer to treat people how... 02-19-2013, 08:09 AM
parrothead Glad to see this thread still... 03-21-2013, 12:58 PM
MNScrapper Everyone has the chance to be... 05-11-2013, 06:29 AM
brokescrapper The worst thing about theft... 11-12-2013, 11:57 PM
t00nces2 Pay as little tax as you can.... 02-07-2021, 05:56 PM
JJinLV Taxes pay for roads, schools,... 02-07-2021, 09:52 PM
taterjuice They also pay for horrible... 02-07-2021, 11:36 PM
Sirscrapalot Sadly just like there will... 11-13-2013, 12:07 AM
bpatnoe I have two yards near me that... 11-13-2013, 03:04 AM
MierasMetals I agree completely. As a... 01-06-2017, 06:56 AM
ChildhoodDream This is a interesting read... 02-07-2021, 11:32 AM
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    I bet the tax man gets an alert when anyone mentions "Great Score" aswell, or.. "today I cashed in 800lb's of #1 copper"
    there are many key words that people say online that triggers a reaction somewhere down the line.
    but yeah, makes you think that everything we have ever written online, no matter if deleted or not is still visible today,
    you can't escape from it really, like now, I say the word.. BOOM! that has just triggered off the pc that is tracking the word, BOOM.
    there, did it again, reckon I say that one more time i'll have the feds dragging me away for questioning.

    scrappers ethics do need to be pushed apon the scrapperhood, for sure.
    infact i'm going over all my posts so far to make sure I didn't say anything silly like in conversation with a little added sugar on top.
    sometimes it's tempting to exaggerate here 'cos if I told you I had 8kg's of copper, half a bucket of aluminium and a tote bag of wires,
    i'll soon be squashed as the next post will be of joe bloggs and his squillion pounds of high grade cpu's he offloaded for top dollar on the way to a huge pickup of telecom boards and getting paid 5 hunj' to pick it up!



    stealing is bad karma, it always comes back to bite you on the bum, only harder.
    it's a fine line I think, defining what is stealing and what's not to a scrapper, I can see how after a while of picking all this great stuff out there for free, one can get into a comfort zone to expect most things lying around can be taken, i'm not sure how to explain it but in my short time i've noticed myself, I have a tendency to see most things as a scrap item, walking down the street is a bit like a kid in a candy shop, you want everything but can only get what you can afford or in this case what is being thrown out, like a mower on a nature strip, on it's own, is most likely to cut the grass it's sitting on, wonder how many mower owners have done that, went in for a cuppa or a slash, come back and it's gone!.

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