What is the creepiest thing you've scrapped?
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What is the creepiest thing you've scrapped?
I got a brass vase from someone who said it used to hold her grandmothers ashes...
Why would you tell me that???
What happened to the ashes ��
lol. they had spread them a few years earlier
phew I thought maybe you got it from that chick who's addicted to eating ashes nasty8-l
I'd say that qualifies as creepy.
I guess the creepiest thing I've scrapped is dental bridge. They were kinda scary and looked very uncomfortable. These were the ones that fit around the whole top set of teeth and had three fake teeth on one side and one on the other. The base was metal and had pretty high silver content. I think I remember getting about $30 for them.
Oddly, there was a glass eye in the same place that I found the bridge. I couldn't scrap that for anything.
When I saw the glass eye I'd say now it's time to leave
Two person Body Cooler from a morgue.
This doesn't qualify as scrapping but I sold a bunch of critter teeth (raccoons, coyotes, fox, etc.) from animals I had harvested a number of years ago. Thought people that did mountain men or other such crafts might hit on them. I had buried the skulls in the dirt, let them non-bone decompose, and then dug them back up and got the teeth (I now boil such heads and either clean them up to sell as whole skulls as possible or use the teeth if the skull is too messed up).
Anyway, first ebay sale of critter teeth and a guy bids on them fairly early. His ebay handle was a ghoul shop in Philly. I think it had a web site so I went and checked it out. Pretty creepy stuff. A large inventory of professional 19th century tin photos of various dead people (pretty common thing to do back then). I was rooting for this guy not to win the auction because of the ghoul-ness. It ended up that he didn't win. I didn't ask the winner what he was going to do with the teeth. By then I had learned not to ask people what they did with some of my wildlife related stuff. Best leaving some sleeping dogs lie...
The manager of the complex where my shop is said to me: "I'll bet you see the inner value in almost everything you look at"
I took a look at him and said "Yep, I look at you and see Kidneys, Lungs, Liver, Tendons, bones and a whole lot of things I can get good money for." He said "Stay away from me"
Well, you asked!
Creepiest thing I've scrapped would have to be a coffin.
How do you acquire a scrap coffin?
Mine was in a barn clean out I did. It didn't have any handles or insides, just a metal shell, but it got a lot of looks on the way to the yard and at the yard!Quote:
Originally Posted by hunterandscrapper
Haha I bet it did
a refrigerated blood centrifuge.............from an abandoned mexican restaurant.
I used to help my father a little bit when scrapping cars, he used to do it for a living. A lot of the time we found cool things like knives or other really cool things or maybe some ammunition if we were lucky. the worst of it is when you find used condoms or needles. that makes it a little scary to keep rooting around.
Well the creepiest and for sure the smelliest,,,, was a walk in cooler from a fish market. I still remember it 15 years later even the bleach treatment did not work.
Picked up a small deep freezer. Opened it up and a deer head was staring at me lol!
Around here that wouldn't surprise me