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Seen along the route into Philadelphia…a huge accident ready to occur if that upper strap fails.
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What in the Beverly Hillbillies
M
Metal scrappers!
W
I’d see trucks like this in Chicago all the time. They’d troll the alleys every day. If you set anything metal out, it’d disappear within 24 hours. Like those nat geo videos of a whale carcass getting picked clean on the ocean floor, not a single nut or bolt went to waste.
T
I’m in California and within a day anything large and metal left out gets picked up by a scrapper. I had all these leftover filing cabinets I didn’t want and just left them on my curb….2 hours later gone. Had to check the cameras, the smallest person managed to lug these huge things up a truck and tie them down. It was amazing.
S
yeah I know a kitchen fitter whose advertised ‘appliance recycling’ service consisted of taking your old fridge/freezer/whatever home and leaving it at the bottom of his driveway with ‘SCRAP’ written on the side. Always gone within 24h… Beats paying the council to come get it.
S
Most metal appliances and mostly-metal scrap, as well as e-waste, is actually quite valuable and you can just bring the stuff to certain scrap yards and get paid to dump it on them. There’s a reason people are out there collecting them!
D
I dunno, I leave out busted microwaves sometimes but they just sit there. And sit there. And sit there.
V
How many microwaves are you going through?
M
Se compra….
H
How much do metal scrappers actually make? Seems like a lot of work for peanuts.
T
Enough for a bag of your DOC and a pack of Paul malls.
N
Paul Mall was my name in prison
L
Paul Mall: Blart Cop
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/r/fleshmall
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:Mall Spliff
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Enough, I used to do it on the side when work was slow, could easily make $200 in a day, this was 20 years ago. . But mostly I just picked up stuff in passing and took it down the scrap yard when I had a couple of tonnes. At the time I got a lot of mixed scrap from my job. Why I started doing it.
H
lol. This is both sad and amazing.
L
They can make hundreds in a sale, I’ve seen it at the recycling centers, I don’t know how it is on a daily basis, but I overheard the guy gloating that it took a couple hours and that he was just going home. He had made like 500 something dollars, and that was like 15 years ago. Computer hardware is also valuable now days I believe. Like most guys doing this he was driving a crappy truck topped to the brim with crap so I figure it isn’t always as good.
S
I recently got almost $20 for a small refrigerator so I think you’re not going to get rich but you can definitely make a living at it.
S
So . . . the Beverly Hillbillies, but with Meth?
W
I’m actually hearing the intro to [Sanford and Son](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5DnqW3F57E).
G
One of the all time great themes
A
They already lost granny
L
[This is somehow way worse than the TV version, lol.](https://youtu.be/NwzaxUF0k18?t=27s)
S
So they moved to Beverlee?
W
What in the Wrong Turn 3
W
My thought exactly.
H
He’s the chairman
M
That tree looks remarkably similar to a giraffe.
M
I saw the tree giraffe too.
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Looks like its watching the scene
B
“Y’all won’t believe the shit I see on the daily, look at this fool!”
D
Went back. Spot on
C
Giraffe with peacock plumage
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new species of camo’d gerafe discovered
M
Philly is just like chicago. We got an army of these fuckers with clapped out pickups barely scootin through the alleys. But they are effective at recycling metal.
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Damn, looks like Philly is getting some nice weather in January.
M
Yeah, and the trees are so lush and green.
W
Compared to the ice storm that hit while I was there a few weeks back, I’m super jealous seeing this. Shit was so thick I had to use a rubber mallet to open [my damn car.](https://i.imgur.com/ASzq24X.jpeg)
M
If it makes you feel better, this is absolutely not from any time recently. I drive on this road every day, it does not look like this right now. Though I am going to have to look for the tree giraffe when the foliage returns.
W
Oh wow I feel dumb as hell for not registering all that green and realizing it’s not a current picture.
H
It should be fine as long as he slapped it and said “she aint goin nowhere”.
S
Yes of course, but without his teeth the Gods may misunderstand him
O
You have to slap it 3 times. No more. No less.
H
1, 2, 5!
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And there’s ww3. Thanks, bud.
S
Fuck, THAT’S my problem! I only give it the ol’ double tap
B
Agreed, say the magic words
S
As a Californian, I see that everyday.
M
Yup. Really not uncommon at all.
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