The stunt that got my goat the most was this...
I had gone out to check over the shred pile when I spotted a nice looking cat, it had strange elbows at both ends so it took me a bit to decide it was an empty shell which I threw back. Half an hour later one of my regular customers comes back from unloading and as my scale guy is paying him for his tin he says " oh, I almost forgot, I have a cat to sell you" and goes and pulls the same shell I had just thrown in the pile out. I decided to just watch a bit and see what happened, my you was having as much trouble as I did earlier deciding if there was any guts left in the thing, but as he was preparing to cut off one pipe to get a look inside it was quit obvious the customer fully intended to sell us our own cat. When I stepped up and mentioned that it came from our own pile the guy about crapped his pants, but being a sharp operator he quickly gained his composure and slapped me on the back, laughed and said " boy I really had you guys going with that one, good joke huh? I was going to tell you in a minute". After informing him that any further " jokes" of that nature would result in being blacklisted I told my guys to leave that shell in plain sight near the edge of the shred pile from then on and to immediately ban anyone caught taking it or attempting to sell it back to us. I'm proud to be able to say not a single other scrapper ever tried to swipe it. Just one bad Apple.
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