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    E Scrap in the woods

    Went mushroom hunting yesterday in a local state park area.

    Found 5 mushrooms.

    Also found a 100 CRT monitors someone had dumped in a riverbed.

    Pretty sad.



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    My punishment as a real E scrapper, if we can find him would go something like this. Strip him naked tie his hands behind his back and a 10 foot cord around his **** the other end to one of the monitors and let him fish for a while. If there is no water in the river bed ok, so he has to fish for a while longer. Old school works.
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    They were using them for fish "structure"

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    For those that strip crt's in front of people's houses on garbge day and leave the tubes, This is what may happen when they are left there and the garbage man wont take them, and BestBuy wont take them stripped. Then the owner has to then dump it illegally. Not pointing fingers at anyone, Just a possible scenario of what can happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
    For those that strip crt's in front of people's houses on garbge day and leave the tubes, This is what may happen when they are left there and the garbage man wont take them, and BestBuy wont take them stripped. Then the owner has to then dump it illegally. Not pointing fingers at anyone, Just a possible scenario of what can happen.
    Maybe but not 100 of them. This sounds like a scrapper without a way to properly dispose.
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    Trash men couldn't care less in my experience, I don't strip them on site but if it is sitting on top or outside can I'll cut coord, I'm only one in my area who scraps so it won't really effect anyone, if it has a free sign it may work so I usually won't cut that. Whoever dumped crts back there is very stupid, exactally what I think when I see people dumping yard waste or couches in someone else's construction dumpster.

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    How stupid. I'd rather landfill them before I'd pollute a waterway.

    I'd probably call the DEQ, and hope that they can track this guy down.

    Stuff like this is what gives us all a bad name.
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    Thats just insane to dump them in a river. Thankfully, my county transfer station will take them free of charge (our taxes pay for their proper disposal), so I take the shell off, get what I want, put the shell back on and then take it there.

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    Pretty sad. Maybe they can get prints off of them but probably hundreds of prints there if indeed prints are still readable this long out in the environment. Probably not high prioirty for the law anyway...Maybe the bad guys left something else for indentfication.

    Reminds me of story from a number of years back. SD's big rifle deer seasons are in the middle of Nov. through early Dec. We have to tag the animal with a sticky tag with name and address onto the leg. They don't unpeel. When you get done butching you just throw that lower part of the leg away that has the tag. This one guy hung his deer in the garage (field dressed off course but unskinned) and was going to get around to cutting the critter up. Well, he never did. Come spring, he wasn't too inclined (although if it had gotten cold quick and froze and then he skinned it out right after it thawed and cut the air/freeze burned areas away--not much if the hide is still on--it probably would have been fine to eat). But he didn't do this. Instead, he decided to ditch it somewhere out in the country byt probably not too far out of town. The grand thinker never cut off his tag (with his name and address on it) from the deer leg. The state came knocking with a ticket of "wanton watse'-- a nice little fine

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