Lol I put an old cooker and filing cabinet out for the council to collect, the scrap guys got there hours before the council people turned up to find nothing.
Audi do that?
Why should they be in Mi6 (sic)? The secret intelligence service is the *foreign* intelligence service. Did you mean the *secret service* – commonly known as MI5?
Gone in 60 seconds
I wish I was so happy about my ladders when I stepped round the back of a house for a second.
The scrap collection guys around me were so good, they collected a car battery that was placed well out of sight behind my bins and they even came in the middle of the night! I went to thank them for their prompt service but their caravans had moved off the playing field by then so I couldn’t find them.
I always did wonder how the hell they find scrap!! I’ve left tiny bits of metal on my front ‘just in case’ and bam, gone the next day. Insane.
An audicious theft…..
i once put a broken washing machine out in the afternoon for the council. It was gone by morning
I remember moving an old dishwasher out with my brother a few years back and no sooner than we emerged from the back gate and onto the pavement, a scrap collector appeared on our street, didn’t even have to put it down. Felt like a true glitch in the matrix.
After replacing my cooker I left the old one by the front door as it was too heavy to get up the steps to the pavement. After a few days my gf said she was pleased I got rid of it. My response, “I did?”
I also replaced 8 old doors in the house. I left them out back in an alleyway that ran behind the houses.
They were gone by the morning.
Yup, we were having a new extractor hood installed in our kitchen. I took part of the old unit out to the end of the drive as I know the scrap collectors would take it. I couldn’t carry it all in one go, so I went back to get the rest. When I went back out a minute or two later, the previous bits were already gone!
I’ve had a tumble dryer sat at the end of my driveway for the last month (unexpectedly too unwell to take it to the dump as planned, council charge stupid rates for big item pick up, and, yes, my neighbours probably hate me) and no one has taken it yet. Most annoying.
Radiators near our gate (not even outside our boundary) didn’t hang around for 30 mins.
I live on a main road, our record appliance on the street collection is less than 5 minutes. They’re everywhere!
Before Christmas we had a new sofa, so I paid £25 or something for the Council’s bulky waste collection to fetch the old one. The night before the collection was due, at 8ish, we stuck it outside the front of the house as instructed. We later heard some murmurings outside but it was dark, so we couldn’t see anything. At 6:30 the next day it was gone.
I still have no clue whether some random people took it and I paid the council to take away a non-existent sofa.
I tore down an old green house that had an aluminium structure in the summer.
I put it on the grass verge and returned to the back garden, where I noticed I had left one small piece behind.
Went back out front and the rest was already gone. Not even a full minute and the scrap man was nowhere to be seen afterwards.
Truly magical
It’s more like an hour, due to the change in shadow.
This is why I don’t bother paying the Council. I put an old washing machine out, gone in half an hour. Saved 25 odd quid and way quicker than the Council!
The guys that do the rounds near my mums place have got a megaphone, but its so muffled, it honestly sounds more like the Muslim call to prayer I heard while in UAE. My mums neighbour looked at me the most peculiar way when she heard me quietly chanting “allah hu ackbar” and giggling when they drove past.
I have a bit of an ongoing beef with a scrap metal collector.
This post has become a warning about the dangers of using hyperbole in a public forum.
Looking at your fingers in second picture, I suppose you might be the scrap collector?
I put a radiator out and it was gone within an hour. It’s like they had some sorta radar.
They grabbed a used rear axle I put in my front garden, next to my front door. Unfortunately I hadn’t installed it in place of the broken one on my car yet.
I wish there was a third photo with Op’s wedding ring missing
You can measure any amount of time in minutes
Why would MI6 need scrap?
I moved a working fridge to the edge of the driveway a few years back, went inside to write “free, working, please take” and by the time I’d written that and walked back outside the fucking thing was gone.
On our road, if you leave out big pieces of cardboard with the recycling bin, someone comes around and collects the cardboard pretty much straight away. Haven’t been able to catch who is doing it, yet!
Don’t leave your hand like that too long or that ring will be gone next
LOL you’ll end up getting a charge for fly tipping in the post – it was the council
We were clearing out the garden of a house, I moved a broken washing machine to the front drive and then went straight back to collect the old gas BBQ from the rear garden.
When I got back no more than 10 mins later the washing machine had gone. I asked my father in law where he’d moved it to, he said he’d not touched it.
I think it may have been aliens.
Scrap fairies. Rarely seen but always seem to visit within a short time frame of you putting something on the pavement.
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He’s behind you!
Stealthy skills, impressive speed.
The sun moves fast where you live
Lol I put an old cooker and filing cabinet out for the council to collect, the scrap guys got there hours before the council people turned up to find nothing.
Audi do that?
Why should they be in Mi6 (sic)? The secret intelligence service is the *foreign* intelligence service. Did you mean the *secret service* – commonly known as MI5?
Gone in 60 seconds
I wish I was so happy about my ladders when I stepped round the back of a house for a second.
The scrap collection guys around me were so good, they collected a car battery that was placed well out of sight behind my bins and they even came in the middle of the night! I went to thank them for their prompt service but their caravans had moved off the playing field by then so I couldn’t find them.
I always did wonder how the hell they find scrap!! I’ve left tiny bits of metal on my front ‘just in case’ and bam, gone the next day. Insane.
An audicious theft…..
i once put a broken washing machine out in the afternoon for the council. It was gone by morning
I remember moving an old dishwasher out with my brother a few years back and no sooner than we emerged from the back gate and onto the pavement, a scrap collector appeared on our street, didn’t even have to put it down. Felt like a true glitch in the matrix.
After replacing my cooker I left the old one by the front door as it was too heavy to get up the steps to the pavement. After a few days my gf said she was pleased I got rid of it. My response, “I did?”
I also replaced 8 old doors in the house. I left them out back in an alleyway that ran behind the houses.
They were gone by the morning.
Yup, we were having a new extractor hood installed in our kitchen. I took part of the old unit out to the end of the drive as I know the scrap collectors would take it. I couldn’t carry it all in one go, so I went back to get the rest. When I went back out a minute or two later, the previous bits were already gone!
I’ve had a tumble dryer sat at the end of my driveway for the last month (unexpectedly too unwell to take it to the dump as planned, council charge stupid rates for big item pick up, and, yes, my neighbours probably hate me) and no one has taken it yet. Most annoying.
Radiators near our gate (not even outside our boundary) didn’t hang around for 30 mins.
I live on a main road, our record appliance on the street collection is less than 5 minutes. They’re everywhere!
Before Christmas we had a new sofa, so I paid £25 or something for the Council’s bulky waste collection to fetch the old one. The night before the collection was due, at 8ish, we stuck it outside the front of the house as instructed. We later heard some murmurings outside but it was dark, so we couldn’t see anything. At 6:30 the next day it was gone.
I still have no clue whether some random people took it and I paid the council to take away a non-existent sofa.
I tore down an old green house that had an aluminium structure in the summer.
I put it on the grass verge and returned to the back garden, where I noticed I had left one small piece behind.
Went back out front and the rest was already gone. Not even a full minute and the scrap man was nowhere to be seen afterwards.
Truly magical
It’s more like an hour, due to the change in shadow.
This is why I don’t bother paying the Council. I put an old washing machine out, gone in half an hour. Saved 25 odd quid and way quicker than the Council!
The guys that do the rounds near my mums place have got a megaphone, but its so muffled, it honestly sounds more like the Muslim call to prayer I heard while in UAE. My mums neighbour looked at me the most peculiar way when she heard me quietly chanting “allah hu ackbar” and giggling when they drove past.
I have a bit of an ongoing beef with a scrap metal collector.
This post has become a warning about the dangers of using hyperbole in a public forum.
Looking at your fingers in second picture, I suppose you might be the scrap collector?
I put a radiator out and it was gone within an hour. It’s like they had some sorta radar.
They grabbed a used rear axle I put in my front garden, next to my front door. Unfortunately I hadn’t installed it in place of the broken one on my car yet.
I wish there was a third photo with Op’s wedding ring missing
You can measure any amount of time in minutes
Why would MI6 need scrap?
I moved a working fridge to the edge of the driveway a few years back, went inside to write “free, working, please take” and by the time I’d written that and walked back outside the fucking thing was gone.
On our road, if you leave out big pieces of cardboard with the recycling bin, someone comes around and collects the cardboard pretty much straight away. Haven’t been able to catch who is doing it, yet!
Don’t leave your hand like that too long or that ring will be gone next
LOL you’ll end up getting a charge for fly tipping in the post – it was the council
We were clearing out the garden of a house, I moved a broken washing machine to the front drive and then went straight back to collect the old gas BBQ from the rear garden.
When I got back no more than 10 mins later the washing machine had gone. I asked my father in law where he’d moved it to, he said he’d not touched it.
I think it may have been aliens.
Scrap fairies. Rarely seen but always seem to visit within a short time frame of you putting something on the pavement.
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