Quote Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing View Post
Welcome to Cleveland Ohio lol. You have no idea how many times we had material stolen from us. You can't turn your back on anyone in that city. I remember one time we were working in Cleveland I think off Eddy rd. anyhow we were taking apart some huge industrial air conditioning units off the roof of a building. Long story short were we throwing the sheet iron off the roof onto the ground below and keeping the copper and radiators on the roof till the end of the day. Well the guy on the bobcat was making a trip to the container to dump his last load and we just threw some stuff over the roof. I heard a banging noise below and thought WTF I didn't hear the bobcat come back. HAHA some guy pulled up with his truck and was loading up the scrap we were throwing over. I yelled he got back in his truck laughed at me as he was doing it and took off I grabbed an old paint can and chucked it at his truck I missed the winshield by a foot or it would have been curtains for him. Just goes to show you that you can't turn your back in that city for even a second. That was lesson one. Lesson two happened on the same jobsite we left a bucket close to a garage door and went to lunch you couldn't see in the bucket and there was a ton of people next door in an industrial building. I come back from lunch the buckets gone. There goes my tools. I ask the girl smoking a cig outside what happened to the bucket we were gone for 10 mins. She said a guy pulled up in a truck got out and put the bucket in his truck. I asked her did you ask what he was doing and she said no he was wearing a hard hat I figured he worked for you. Hence to say I was super po'd that day and learned that you should never ever turn your back or leave anything laying out in that city. That was five years ago and I am still mad about it and it was maybe 200 dollars worth of tools and scrap combined but it was a hard lesson.
Nothing sucks worse than to be a theft victim.