Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot
The smash an grabbers as I call them tend to fall into two categories in my experience...
1. Lazy.
2. Drug addicts, usually Meth or pills.
I suppose I could make a 3rd.
3. Don't care, an are just jerks.
If you do breakdown things at the curb, then clean it up, seems you do that Mr.Downtown. So I can't really get mad at you, at lest you pick up your mess, and make sure it's all picked up an placed so it's not an eyesore, hazard, etc. Lots of people won't do that.
When I first got started I did a lot of curb shopping. I'd find piles of crap sitting on curbs, an of course I'd dig through it for all that lovely metal. I always left it looking better then it was when I got there tho, not matter what I had to dig out, I didn't leave a huge pile of mess sitting about to piss of the homeowner. These same people now stop me or hold things for me if they see me coming through because they know I won't leave their curb looking like a dump.
YMMV.
Sirscrapalot - Clean up after yourselves, your mother doesn't work here. - Seen on a sign.
You can say that again. There's plenty that fall into those categories here. I love going over into the trailer parks up the road to scrap. They don't seem to be intelligent enough to take the good parts out of stuff. I find tvs, computers, motors, etc with the speakers removed, and the cords cut off. They leave all the heat sinks, circuit boards, lenses, etc inside the unit.
I guess it's too much work, or they're just not smart enough to figure out how to crack one of those babies open. I'm not in a hurry to tell them either. Last Sunday I found 6 projectors in the park, all with the speakers removed, the screens scratched with profanity on half of them, cords removed, and the mirrors busted on half of them.
I'm still making a pretty penny, so I can't complain about their ignorance too much.
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