I found a 3 foot gnome that had been turned into a bong.
And several electric toothbrushes that had been turned into womans tools with some car body filler.
I found a 3 foot gnome that had been turned into a bong.
And several electric toothbrushes that had been turned into womans tools with some car body filler.
Some things you can't unsee!Quote:
Originally Posted by devo
Oh, but ain't that the truth! That's what we got eye candy....er wash, eye wash for here. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
LOL! your right I would be worried as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by G_P
I found a Ali drink can with a dead blue/green/grey/dark red mouse with a white tail in it.
Then I found out it wasn't a mouse......
You asked anything funny/weird/cool/creepy to share?
This past weekend I found a discarded 8 gallon soup pot half filled with oil. Looked like someone burned a turkey in it.
We cleanup our street once a month and there are allot of 'working' girls so always finding used hypodermic needles and used condoms in different colors. I asked someone what the different colors were about and they said they are different flavors.
The strangest was a gym bag full of new hypodermic needles and small baggies with pieces of cotton so the iv users can strain there stuff.
Appearantly I haven't been scrapping long enough to find anything Wierd or creepy, but I did find a new Ikea shelf system still in wrapped in plastic. I hope I don't find some of the things mentioned so far here.
Kris Kringle, I live down in the Stuttgart area. Oh, Im the james part of jassiejames. mmm Perminator sounds good, that or an Elephant beer to wash the Schnitzel down. Were you Army or AF?
Was Army. First duty station was here in Stuttgart area 89 to 91. Long story short, im a civilian now but also an Army Reservist, almost finished with that then I can do drugs, and smoke pot. Just kidding, had a Whiz Quiz this last weekend.
I got out in 96, got the RIF and took the cash too but stayed with reserve just to see it through to a nice retirement supplement. Never played with the substances either, just making a funny.
Reduction In Force.
A pic that was posted on this forum a while back. Still gives me nightmares.Quote:
Originally Posted by elitelawnteam1
I was tearing apart a computer tower and I found cobwebs inside ick....
metal filing cabinet full of porn.
I found a trash bag full of 6 newborn kittens. Trash bag was tied off and I ended up bringing them to a no kill shelter the next day.
Could never find that house again though, to report it. (Should have done it at the time, not the next day).
RATS!!!!!
I was going to post a new thread about this but I was still too mad.
Last week I picked up an old RCA VICTOR 45’s only record play from my neighbor directly across the alley from me. I opened the top up and the thing was full of a nest. Not just a few chewed up papers, but full!!!
Well drug it across the alley and open the flip up lid and slammed on the ground a few times to get the **** out of it and then took it in my garage and started to bust it apart and a **** RAT came running out into my garage.
NOW I am mad!! I took it back out on the slab and started beating on it (record play) with my sledge and another RAT came running out.
Now the real bad part of all of this is. Rats can be poisoned or shot. But the neighbors I have known for over 20+ years are the ones with RATS in their basement.
Edited to ad. I do know what a house or field mouse look like. THESE were RATS. Young ones but RATS!!!!
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Originally Posted by Abuilder
it's claimed if you see one rat you have an infestation.
Ya I know :(Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavus
Some of the people around here have this thing about putting food waste in their garage.
Hell: flies, squillels, coons, cats and yes possom stay away from me. :) CB caps.
NO I don't shoot at anything that moves. LOL
Once you've been in this business as long as I have it's going to take something really bizarre to ruffle your feathers.
Worst case for me was an old house I had contracted to clean out with soggy carpet throughout plus an over bearing animal piss ( cat urine ) that would gag a maggot. The urine in the air so thick it created a haze you could chew on.
Taking that first step into the house you had an instant reaction where all you wanted to do was vomit, all I could do was turn and go back outside for fresh air after the third or fourth entry you kinda get used to the over bearing smell but not the taste in your mouth.
In a situation like this its best the breath through your mouth with a wet rag over to mask the smell then after an hour or so was able to discard the rag and get on with the job.
I've worked as a plumber and would rather climb into a septic tank to retrieve a submersible pump than do another house of horrors.
Burn your cloths after as the cat piss is not coming out.
The woman had lived here for over 20 years with a house full of cats to make things worse she was a hoarder boxes piled to the ceiling in every room yea all smelling of cat piss.
We did get an 8 place setting of Royal Albert White Dogwood China with every size platter and both sizes of tea pots like the full set which did clean up nicely. This China set was like brand new with out so much as a chip or any wear showing on the gold trim.
The most unfortunate part is that my daughter collects Old Country Rose's from the same maker - Royal Albert.
gustavus
I have had to use the “unforeseen condition clause” in my restoration contracts due to cat piss. Some places the health department would have condemned.
The funny thing is, I like cats.
I has a girl friends cat that kept pissing on dirty Tshirts years back. They smelled OK after a good washing , but after I started sweating on a hot day I smelled like a very over full cat box and nobody on the job would get near me. ROFLMAO
LOL not sure how I missed this thread until it got brought back up...
I'm in the "Dildo Discovery" crowd also :D
It was an average every day EScrap pickup, about 4 months ago, and it wasn't anything super special... just 3 or 4 desktops and a couple boxes of odds and ends. Well, one of those boxes had a bunch of various computer/electronics related tools (got a real nice soldering iron/bits out of it, still using it today :), there was a rather large canvas zippered case near the bottom. Looks just like the cases you see everywhere, with the little fabric velcro loops in rows that will hold screwdrivers and such. Well, instead of screwdrivers, they were lady toys! 4 of them, from big to small, strapped in the case just like they were tools. 2 of them were obviously electric, didn't look close enough to see if the other 2 were :D
I should mention I was still at the place when I made this discovery, with the homeowner standing right there. I said something like "oo I hope there's some nice torx bits i- hey now what's this!"
They were a bit embarrassed to say the least :D I let him have them back... and yes he was married, so I can only assume...
Also (in a different much more recent pickup) High Times and Cannabis Culture magazines, just barely covered by some other stuff... Wish I had gone through that box before I left, would have had something else to talk about! It was the kind of guy you'd never guess smoked the herbs, super friendly IT guy. But then again, just about all computer geeks/techs I've met partake. Especially in Vermont!
10 years ago I found a couple what I thought were Safes. They were opened already and empty. I couldnt lift them they were so heavy and in a 4 foot creek. Was going to go back when I had some help, about 4 days later since it was in a secluded area. In that time, it already was found by police and on the news. They were dumped ATMs from an ATM theif that was going crazy around Philadelphia area in the 80s-90s timer period I believe.CRAZY
this didn't happen to me but, about 8 years ago or so down at the end of the block a clean up crew was hired to clean up an abandon house.
they got to the back yard and a large brush pile. when they pulled the brush out they noticed a depression in the ground with some cloths showing through.
they tried to pull the clothing out of the hole but couldnt. so some shovel work was in the offing.
what they found was the body of the old grandpa. Grand pa had died some time back and the daughter and grand daughter didnt want to lose his ss check so they threw him in the burn hole and covered him with the brush.
had they not moved to Ca and abandon the property they probably wouldnt have ever found the old guy.
Well..it sounds like the doll at least got a meal out of it 1st!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by injunjoe
found speed limit sign yesterday
Make sure you check that it is decommissioned or you may get arrested.
misscrap could have used it for a throwaway...Quote:
Originally Posted by elitelawnteam1
Yeah you DO have the right to pack heat, it's called the 2nd amendmentQuote:
Originally Posted by kbob
today I found two curbed wheel chairs.... without the wheels
not too strange just that it was outfont some warehouse turned house i had ventured into one time, and they had a bunch of acrobatic swings, clown **** and 10ft tall unicycles and whatnot. I just cant help but wonder what they did with the wheels
found a cosmetic head that scared the crap out of me on a curb clean up.
found a doubled head 10 inch dildo/vibrator, guess if u want to fill both orfices? left it there and a bum that was nearby grabbed it happily and said it was going to be a good night and ran off happily.
also found a dead dog carcass and a deer hoof hat rack?
Update :We do have Right to carry now.Quote:
Originally Posted by kbob
In early November last year I was poking around in a dumpster and found a mutilated body. It was dark out and I was in a really sketchy area. After screaming like a 12 year old girl I realized something didn't look right about it. After poking it with my grabber stick thing I realized it was a Halloween prop. Scared the hell out of me. Managed to sell it this September for a few bucks.
Saddest thing I found was a dead puppy. Worst thing I found was meth making materials.
Found a whole still operation in the trash about a month ago, huge stainless steel pots, and lots of copper coils!
Found a condom inside a coputer tower once, have no idea how it got in there. Extracted it with my needle nose plyers (yes it was used,gross) This has to be the funniest thread on this forum.
Compared to the rest of you mine is nothing..going through a trashcan of metal siding some lady gave me(neighbor of a yard sale I had stopped at, networkin for the win!)and in it besides the siding towards the bottom was about 60 unused still in wrapper condoms, a few beer cans, and some other trash.
I'm kinda sad and happy I don't have some of the tales you all do to tell..lol.
Sirscrapalot - Mannequin heads, used condoms, toys..oh my!
30 year old food in a refrigerator in an abandoned mobile home I'm tearing down definitely nasty
I hauled lots of scary stuff over the years..one pick up takes the cake. I get a call from a shop to pick up a freezer unit..8footer. He had his hvac guy evacuate it and it was taped shut..he said "dont open it"..O.K...Its very heavy and smelling very dead. I get to the yard and they figure crushing it in a van would be best. As soon as they do the smell comes pouring out and it was instant BARF(4 of us). The shop owner had hit a deer with his truck coming home from hunting at the end of season...fearing a ticket he jammed the whole thing into an older freezer..which in turn died. Had that smell in my nose for weeks.
I remember one day in the summer, i was drivin down a road, when i came across a (really hot) girl chucking stuff out on the curb. i pulled up and stopped since i saw an older mac laptop, some other cool **** and weight equipment. I talked to this girl for a bit and she was really upset that her boyfriend was cheating on her. So she threw all his stuff out on the curb and told me to take whatever i wanted from the massive pile. no problem, filled my truck up half way id say bout 800lbs i got from that pile.
Pink heart handcuffs, found in a car