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I know that many on this forum are new to scrapping.
Please be a respectful scrapper while you are out hunting for scrap.
Let me expand:
1. Last summer, I picked up a nice older TV that worked perfectly. I set it out at the curb, knowing that someone out there would like to have a free TV. I made large signs saying "FREE TV, WORKS PERFECT." Not an hour after I set the TV at the curb, a guy in a junk Toyota truck pulled into the drive. "Oh, cool. Someone is getting the TV I set out. I hope he is able to use it or sell it." I thought. I walked past the door a few minutes later, after I heard him leave, and was surprised to see the TV sitting there.
I walked out to see what was up, and that guy cut the cord off and left!!!!!
I still cannot believe that someone completely ruined a NICE television with a working remote so they could score 30 cents in scrap.
2. Last fall, my neighbor called me in a panic. "Someone is in your backyard nosing around your truck!!!" she said. I went out the back door to meet the guy. "I'm just looking for scrap. Wanna sell that old truck?" he asked "I know it don't run, and I'd give you $50 for it" he added.
Next time someone is nosing around my old truck, which I drive daily and park in the same spot, they will get the police called on them, and I'll probably be carrying a Mossburg when I come out the back door.
3. About a month ago, I set about 200 pounds of scrap steel and iron castings out by the curb. I left a few pounds of yellow brass out too. (Too busy to go to the scrap yard, and feeling generous at the moment.) I added about six old paint roller frames on top. I put a sign on it saying "FREE SCRAP, PLEASE TAKE ALL."
I came home later, to find that someone took all the good scrap, but threw the paint rollers...not back into a small neat pile, but strewn across the yard.
4. My neighbors set out several working Christmas lawn decorations. You know the type, steel frames that light up to make a Santa, or some reindeer.
Whoever took those decided that it would be okay to leave the boxes and the large styrofoam inserts thrown out into their lawn. They actually broke the styrofoam into a HUGE mess. I have no idea why they couldn't have tossed the complete boxes into their truck and scrapped them later.
5. Many people that I know will not let any scrappers on their property anymore due to the same type of problems. Some scrappers tend to cherry pick the best stuff, and then abandon the project leaving huge messes.
Scrapping has turned into Olympic sport around our parts...but come on fellows, use your brain, and please be respectful of others.
Don't leave messes, take all the scrap, QUIT cutting cords unless you know it is junk, pick up after yourselves, and don't go jacking around someone's property without knocking on the front door first.
I am to the point of never leaving scrap at the curb again, even though I was only trying to help my fellow steel and iron scrappers.
Please be a respectful scrapper while you are out hunting for scrap.
Let me expand:
1. Last summer, I picked up a nice older TV that worked perfectly. I set it out at the curb, knowing that someone out there would like to have a free TV. I made large signs saying "FREE TV, WORKS PERFECT." Not an hour after I set the TV at the curb, a guy in a junk Toyota truck pulled into the drive. "Oh, cool. Someone is getting the TV I set out. I hope he is able to use it or sell it." I thought. I walked past the door a few minutes later, after I heard him leave, and was surprised to see the TV sitting there.
I walked out to see what was up, and that guy cut the cord off and left!!!!!
I still cannot believe that someone completely ruined a NICE television with a working remote so they could score 30 cents in scrap.
2. Last fall, my neighbor called me in a panic. "Someone is in your backyard nosing around your truck!!!" she said. I went out the back door to meet the guy. "I'm just looking for scrap. Wanna sell that old truck?" he asked "I know it don't run, and I'd give you $50 for it" he added.
Next time someone is nosing around my old truck, which I drive daily and park in the same spot, they will get the police called on them, and I'll probably be carrying a Mossburg when I come out the back door.
3. About a month ago, I set about 200 pounds of scrap steel and iron castings out by the curb. I left a few pounds of yellow brass out too. (Too busy to go to the scrap yard, and feeling generous at the moment.) I added about six old paint roller frames on top. I put a sign on it saying "FREE SCRAP, PLEASE TAKE ALL."
I came home later, to find that someone took all the good scrap, but threw the paint rollers...not back into a small neat pile, but strewn across the yard.
4. My neighbors set out several working Christmas lawn decorations. You know the type, steel frames that light up to make a Santa, or some reindeer.
Whoever took those decided that it would be okay to leave the boxes and the large styrofoam inserts thrown out into their lawn. They actually broke the styrofoam into a HUGE mess. I have no idea why they couldn't have tossed the complete boxes into their truck and scrapped them later.
5. Many people that I know will not let any scrappers on their property anymore due to the same type of problems. Some scrappers tend to cherry pick the best stuff, and then abandon the project leaving huge messes.
Scrapping has turned into Olympic sport around our parts...but come on fellows, use your brain, and please be respectful of others.
Don't leave messes, take all the scrap, QUIT cutting cords unless you know it is junk, pick up after yourselves, and don't go jacking around someone's property without knocking on the front door first.
I am to the point of never leaving scrap at the curb again, even though I was only trying to help my fellow steel and iron scrappers.
once i got a new fridge (not new, but from a friend), that i was gonna put in my basement, and i set it in my drive way, not the curb, my literal parking area, and within a short period of time someone had taken it...this was very disappointing since i was anxious to finally get a fridge to put in my basement, and someone took it! 
