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Oct 11, 2009 20:54:46 GMT
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Weighed in my BMW the other week & got £120.
Couple of weeks ago we had some traveller looking couple driving up our road, guy in the drivers seat & his missus in the passenger seat looking up peoples driveways! Couple of days later the van drove up again, this time with a bloke in the passenger seat looking up peoples driveways!
Last year one of these traveller gits stole the lump of lead which fell off my parents porch that was lying in their front garden!
Thieving shitbags!
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Oct 11, 2009 20:58:01 GMT
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The scrap yards must be pretty unscupulous to accept things like manhole covers, which must blantantly be nicked.
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Oct 11, 2009 21:10:30 GMT
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Oct 11, 2009 21:14:51 GMT
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I think its funny people slaggin off the scrapmen who have knocked on your door and asked for stuff I mean whats the problem, they asked. Then again you'd probally be the same people complaining that you'd left something out for a scrapman to take and no one had come for it. Of course they are going to drive up and down roads looking for scrap what else are they going to do?? ive done scrap before when money was short, always asked for stuff if know one is in leave it try again another day. most people were really happy when you asked if something was scrap as it saved them hassle, others mardy arses... like some stereotypical members on here. Autofive lol. you really think anyone would go to the effort to climb over a gate for a couple of radiators worth about £2 in scrap metal and cost them more in fuel to come back for them. get real. All the local scrapmen around our area are sound they ask and everyone leaves stuff out for them, ive had my willaims top on my front for about a month which is worth about £50 in alloy and it hasnt been taken. annoys me when people try and tar everyone with the same brush just because of a few bad people who pose as scrapmen who just rob everything they like. out collect scrap was a fun day actually miss it, now stuck in uni all the time bored and reading books.
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Last Edit: Oct 11, 2009 21:17:05 GMT by damageandy
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skinnylew
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Are scrap metal prices up?skinnylew
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Oct 11, 2009 22:40:06 GMT
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The scrap yards must be pretty unscupulous to accept things like manhole covers, which must blantantly be nicked. First hand dealings with this, last year and this year unfortunately I'm a highways technician for my local council so i have to deal with the replacement of these, darn£250 to get a new one put in off the council payers back grrrrrrrr for £3 a gully the theiving traveller scum. However we have been out with the Police to a couple of yards and managed to recover 25-30 gullies, which are of no use to us as we have replaced them Same people who got caught last year and 'let go' due to insufficient evidence. Scrap dealer was going to be charged with handling Stolen goods but case got dropped, probably to much hassle for the old bill Thing is its seems to be easy money for them, heave them out onto the side and go round and pick them up after. However all Bexley's gullies are marked (well a high oercent, i did my back in doing them!!) so are fairly traceable as the dozy morons never think to scrub the paint off. It is however a huge danger to the public, some of these gullies are several feet deep and a kid could easily drown in one, let alone serious injuries to pedestrians and serious damage to cars.
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Oct 11, 2009 23:43:04 GMT
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Autofive lol. you really think anyone would go to the effort to climb over a gate for a couple of radiators worth about £2 in scrap metal and cost them more in fuel to come back for them. get real. no, I think he spotted the rads through the open side gate and while he was at my front door, spotted the 2 dismantled aluminium greenhouses, couple of cats, the 6 batteries, 3 V6 engine blocks, 3 full stainless steel scimitar exhaust systems (18 lumps of stainless in all) and the 7 brass firehose fittings. and we don't have many size 10ish nike trainer wearing cats round our way - so I think he did come back. if he comes back tonight he will be ripped to shreds on the fishing hooks and line ive rigged up - just for him and his mates . last time we had trouble with thieves mooching around the garden, i sent my GF's staffi onto him, it locked its jaws onto his knee cap, and while he writhed on the ground, he screamed and begged me to call the dog off - I did eventually ;D we can all make a handsome living by begging and stealing stuff - so don't make it sound like all scrap men are gentleman.
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Last Edit: Oct 11, 2009 23:45:08 GMT by Autofive
Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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Oct 11, 2009 23:45:57 GMT
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ORDER ORDER
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Oct 11, 2009 23:51:36 GMT
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I think its funny people slaggin off the scrapmen who have knocked on your door and asked for stuff I mean whats the problem, they asked. Then again you'd probally be the same people complaining that you'd left something out for a scrapman to take and no one had come for it. Of course they are going to drive up and down roads looking for scrap what else are they going to do? I dunno, take out an advert in the yellow pages and ASK people if they want scrap taking away? Driving up and down staring up driveways looks sus. Fact. Wastes diesel as well.
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Oct 11, 2009 23:57:35 GMT
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You can now drive up and down the road looking up people's driveways and never leave your divan, courtesy of Google Earth's streetview madness. A terrific step forward for sanity. And invasiveness.
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Team Blitz Ford Capri parts worldwide: Restoration, Road, or Race. Used, Repro, and NOS, ranging from scabby to perfect. Itching your Capri jones since 1979! Buy, sell, trade. www.teamblitz.com blitz@teamblitz.com
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You can now drive up and down the road looking up people's driveways and never leave your divan, courtesy of Google Earth's streetview madness. A terrific step forward for sanity. And invasiveness. unless you blockade the road and refuse to let the google camera car near your house - lots of examples in the news in the last 6 months. and, i believe, theres an official complaints procedure too, to get your house removed from the streetview.
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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You can already request for it to be removed. I know someone who had theirs removed a few days after it went live
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Anyone else old enough to remember when scrap men actually paid you for the metals etc they collected from your home ? Only peanuts but used to buy a bag of sweets, bottle of pop etc. Rags and such used to get either a balloon or goldfish. ;D Locally we have Kidney Research who will collect scrap promptly and at least you know some of the proceeded, no matter how little, goes to them.
Paul H
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Down Devon I was chatting to a bloke from the electric board who uses a proper scrappie, all above board, paperwork etc. A year or so back some oiks turned up with a load of brass, turned out to be the name plates and brass works from a local memorial that had been done over. The scrappie helped them unload and then rang the police. Sadly they had put an angle grinder through each plaque to try and hide what they were so although recovered were no use.
So honest dealers do exist!
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Oct 12, 2009 18:49:51 GMT
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annoys me when people try and tar everyone with the same brush You mean like what you just did? IBTL btw. I think the OP's question was answered Page 1.
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Oct 12, 2009 19:42:14 GMT
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Down Devon I was chatting to a bloke from the electric board who uses a proper scrappie, all above board, paperwork etc. A year or so back some oiks turned up with a load of brass, turned out to be the name plates and brass works from a local memorial that had been done over. The scrappie helped them unload and then rang the police. Sadly they had put an angle grinder through each plaque to try and hide what they were so although recovered were no use. Down Devon a couple of years ago, some particularly bright, enterprising young men tried to steal a couple of the large rolls of electrical cable from an electrical sub-station that was having some work done on it. They loaded them into the back of their not very large Escort van and drove off through a town called Modbury, on the way to Plymouth. The road through Modbury to Plymouth goes up quite a steep hill. The back doors of the van were not firmly closed.... The residents of Modbury found two rolls of electrical cable at the bottom of the their high street the next morning. ;D
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Oct 12, 2009 19:45:09 GMT
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Gah, We've had no end of problems with them, when it was at it highest a few months back, we'd have 4 or 5 come in a week, they always scarpered if you asked to see a waste carrier's license!
One lot got caught nicking from the battery cage in the yard by my boss, he soon dropped the goods and buggered off.
Another time they broke into our storage barn and were nicking engines and gearboxes, at 1am! The police were called, they turned up and asked them not to do it again, so it wasn't a surprise when they came back sometime later and nicked the bloody lot.
Yes there are proper scrap men, but there are a lot of scum too.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:15:20 GMT
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Autofive, well u didnt mention any of that lot lol. id imagine they wud be back mainly for the cats and presious metal, cheecky gits. Alot of drug addicts rob scrap these days too to feed their habbit, pushing a wheel barrow or wheelie bin into the less legit yards. since the price went so high last year so many more people know about it, so every scally knows metals are worth money. Defo plenty of dodgey ones out thier no doubt, but i don't class them as scrapmen just thieves.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:27:09 GMT
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Plenty of pikies risking their own lives by ripping the copper piping & copper wiring out of derelict buildings!
Bumped into a set whilst exploring a derelict paper mill earlier in the year with 2 others, unfortunately for them they had been beaten to it by other pikies who had stripped the place!
Was quite un-nerving stood there trying to explain to some Buckfast fuelled traveller that you're there to take pictures & not interested in what they're up to!
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Oct 12, 2009 20:34:50 GMT
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Plenty of pikies risking their own lives by ripping the copper piping & copper wiring out of derelict buildings! Bumped into a set whilst exploring a derelict paper mill earlier in the year with 2 others, unfortunately for them they had been beaten to it by other pikies who had stripped the place! Was quite un-nerving stood there trying to explain to some Buckfast fuelled traveller that you're there to take pictures & not interested in what they're up to! couple of years ago some numb smackheads on Teesside thought they would stihlsaw through a copper cable lying across a railway bridge - it was live, and as he was cutting the numpty earthed himself to the bridge via his elbow - he is now blind, bald and is minus an arm ,over 6 months in hospital and all for a couple of hundred quid's worth of copper
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:44:53 GMT
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There have been a number that have attempted to cut through live wires only to fry themselves!
Darwin Awards spring to mind!
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