What is happening here... I didn't read the old posts so I'm not sure what's happening but all I can say is that unless it's trash night it's best to go above and beyond when considering taking things from the curb. Use your judgement. If it's in the middle of nowhere and is all messed up then yeah it's probably ok to take but anything else I usually wait around the item for a while and see if anyone shows up to claim it. This happened to me the other day with a ladder, it turned out to belong to someone who was doing work in the area, he was done using the ladder and put it there since his car was nearby. Sometimes doing things like this can even get you more scrap then what you were gonna take. Today I passed by a house with some copper lines on the side of the drive way with some trash bags nearby, the lines didn't look old or broken so I wasn't sure if they were junk. I knocked on the door and rang the door bell, waited for about 15 minutes nobody answered the door but finally someone opened the door when I was leaving, turns out they weren't junk they were just put there to get them out of the way. I advised them to put the lines somewhere else since there's a lot of people looking for metal around the area and most of them just take without asking, unlike me. The neighbor next door heard me talking since she was in her yard and she ended up giving me some scrap copper that weighed more then the lines I was after. If I had taken those lines I could've possibly gotten in trouble for stealing and would've made less money then I did the the pipes from the other lady.
Bookmarks