Hi everyone I'm Tyrel from Manitoba canada I've been a long time lurker and I have been meaning to join for a while but anytime I have a question I have been able to find the answer will a quick search, so I would like to thank everyone for all the information first of all. Now a little background on me i run a tire/auto repair shop that's how I got into scrapping I always just throw everything in a bin and sold it for shred, thanks to everything I've learned on here I'm now making a lot more now. Now my story this morning I'm in my office and I look outside and a grand prix is backed up to my scrap aluminum, so I go outside and when he sees me coming he slams the trunk and has a Chevrolet cavalier wheel in his hand i ask what he's doing and he tells me how he needs a spare for his Ford pick up so I tell him that these are all scrap and that I have a steel wheel that will work so he jumps in his car and tells me he will go get his truck and be back. I knew he was going to go sell them and there is only 2 places in town to sell scrap, so I called both of them with a plate number and a discription of the guy. Not 5 minutes after I hang up one of them phones my saying the guy tried selling them to him, the yard told him they were stolen and the guy told the scrap dealer that he would bring them back to me. 15 minutes after that the other yard phones me and tells me the guy trying to sell them and the scrap dealer told him he was going to call the police, and the thief said he would bring them back to me and 10 minutes later I had my wheels back. He took a semi wheel and a wheel off a dodge 1 ton so probably about 60 lbs of aluminum, not a great way to start my Thursday morning but at least everything worked out in the end still frustrating though.
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