What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen in a scrap yard?

Today I saw a two foot high rubber T Rex in the shred pile. A yard guy rescued it and took it home for his dogs to play with.

Yes, I pull boards all the time. I have a tote at my local yard and toss circuit boards in it. The yard employees will do the same with boards and hard drives. When it gets full, I'll go by and settle up with the owner. It works great.

I pick up circuit boards once in awhile that are just lying around. Usually have been run over a couple times. One time, there was a pile of motherboards/finger boards next to the fence. The yard doesn't buy them, so I guess they just got chucked to the side when someone was loading a bin.

70s vintage Yamaha/honda dirt bikes that were restored.

I found a hand of playing cards in a small floppy drive. Weird, they were Japanese cards & had two amusing depictions of the 'Joker' in Japanese caracature.

sorta like when I found a Japanese parking coin stuck in the passenger seat slide of my Japanese import Mazda 626.
I must have been there ten years & I found it when a Japanese exchange student was sitting in the rear seat. Nearly p-----ed ourselves larfin.

A scrapped scrap metal hauling truck

You mean besides some of our fellow scrappers? About 10 cats in the office where the lady writes the check.

10 cats? I'll bet it smells real good in there.

not the strangest but still makes laugh..my little web camera guy. lol.

I once saw a full 12 pack of cans, sitting next to the shred pile. That was one of the saddest days for me at the yard . An I did ask, turns out it was skunky beer. Someone didn't understand that..making your beer cold, then warm, etc isn't the wisest choice.

Sirscrapalot - Drink the beer, then scrap the cans...not rocket science!

I went into my yard one day to take a load in and off to the side was 10-15 sets of golf clubs. Including higher name brands. I seen at least one set of Pings in there. If I would have had the cash, I would have picked them up and sold them on CL for a good profit. I asked the guy at the yard about them and he said that some guys wife came in with them and dumped them there stating that her husband had too many sets of clubs. Bet that guy was pissed when he got home and see all his clubs gone at @150 a ton....when they could have went for almost that a set. LOL

1977 Webco and a 1978 JMC bmx bikes, didn't get to them in time and they were ran over by our excavator. Also 1983 KOS Cruiser 26 mint frame I got that one though, bought it from the guy before he threw it off

Strangest thing I've seen is, well you ain't gonna believe me, but, one time I saw an employee smile.

yea I know, you're calling me a liar but its true.

DEA drug search. The rural yard borders up to state hunting land. one of the neighbors decided to to do a little growing of their own. Unloading scrap while low flying helicopters doing there search and guys on foot going thru the woods. Put a little excitement for the day in the scrap run.

Har...smile? That's about as rare as a snowball in Florida in yards I've been at!!

The funniest thing I saw at a yard was where the city police must have dumped off a bunch of drug equipment that was seized and eventually trashed. I don't know how the yard guys communicated but I'll betcha every employee in the place beat a straight line to the dumping spot. Can you say seething dogpile?

J.

a manure spreader that wasn't empty