It is sad how all of this goes down. I have many stories over my lifetime of scrapping that have made me cringe. Every time I have had someone tell me the stuff they do.. I inform them that they are knocking down prices for everyone- but they don't seem to care.. They are in it for the short-run, the quick buck and they don't care. Here are just a few stories I have heard over the years:
Direct from idiot #1's Mouth: "I took a bag of aluminum cans over to XYZ yard one time.. I put a pebble in each one and crushed the can.. They weighed it and it came out to "X" number of pounds- Those a$$holes ripped me off!"
Direct from idiot #2's Mouth: "Man I love Water heaters.. when I get em home I take a funnel and fill them with dry concrete.. if the yard ever asks I just say "Sediment"
Story #3 is a story I have heard multiple times from multiple fellow scrappers around these parts. It goes like this. A Guy bought a van to scrap.. once he gutted it he somehow managed to cram a round hay bale into it. He pulled into the yard, weighed in, brought 2 other guys with him, they rolled it off the trailer (instead of having the yard pluck it off) hauled booty back to the scale, weighed out and was gone.
Now depending on how wet or dry the bale was it would have weighed somewhere between 700 and 1100 lbs. I'm not sure when this happened but at the current rates of today that would have netted him and his fellow thieves a whopping $70 to $110. That dude would never have been able to go to that yard again- since the staff and guys in the yard carry openly.. if he ever came back he would have been shot on sight!
Again.. ALL of us who run clean get dinged for this, all of us who run "right" PAY with lower returns because of these hosers.. it stinks.. it is frustrating.. but I know all of us can sleep at night and look ourselves in the mirror the next day.. And THAT is something $ can't buy!
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