Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I shit you fucking not, it's been here two days as mum and dad renovate a bathroom and 3 lots of pikies have been around having stuff out of it.
I know copper is worth a lot, but a bit about 30cm long isn't going to buy you a holiday in the Bahamas.
Then I threw a set of old Nova steel wheels in there today, another one is here now taking them away.
Hes just seen a worn out pair of Makita workman shoes and hes having them.
I imagine later in the week he'll be around to have the Astra away and the wheels in the garage.
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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Maybe you should forget the skip in future and just leave the stuff on your drive? 
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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We put a side table in the skip outside ours and had the glass behind the skip so it didnt smash as we was walkin across it to put stuff in and someone took the table and the glass and a mondeo steelie
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I mean hes doing us a favour as you can't throw tyres into skips, but what concerns me we have an endless stream of pikies coming down the road looking on the drive.
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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they're like vultures! it's incredible.
maybe we could hide a bomb in a skip and cull them 
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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We always have a joke at work that if theres scrap which is supposed to be taken to landfill, just stick it at the end of the estate drive and it'll be gone in the morning.
Did it with an old enamel bath once. Got my contractor to leave it in a semi-obvious position and it had gone by the next day
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dean101287
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Registered: 22nd Jul 07
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When I done my bathroom I put all the old tiles in the bath (metal bath) and left it outside out of my way. Couple of days later the bath had gone and they left the tiles all over the floor.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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How much money do they make though out of this, a few quid? What's the point?
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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They collect a fair amount of it though and it all adds up. It's free money really.
We had an old bath outside before, they smashed it up to get the taps off it, was quite annoying tbf.
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chris_uk
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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
How much money do they make though out of this, a few quid? What's the point?
probably more than you think,
we collect scrap at work when we find it and last time the mixed metals went for £10 per 100kg doesnt sound much but when seperated and sorted it goes for a lot more.
when we do void clearences (thats empty houses to those who dont know) we have pikeys cutting the cables off appliences, tv's etc.
i think we have about a tonne of mixed metals now at the back of our yard after 4 months of collecting, so that will be about £100 i recon they get that every couple of days.
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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I imagine they do pretty well out of it. If what they weigh in gets them more than the cost of fuel they've made something.
Either that or they re-use it in some bodged construction job meaning they don't have to buy materials. We'd get off cuts of structural timber nicked off some sites for exactly that reason if contractors just dumped everything in the open.
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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mate at work had this, put his kitchen sink and worksurface in the drive....
30mins later a knock at the door "how much you want for the kitchen"
Gave him £5 and they where off with it
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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At least they knocked! Polite Pikeys!
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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yep, just had our bath done and they took everythin, they did knock and ask though
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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pikey scum took my parents bathroom, they did ask but they didn't offer any money.
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
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dont see the probem myself, ur binnin it so why should they give you any money, we couldnt give two hoots tbh, meant we could fit more in the skip before payin to get it emptied
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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quote:
Originally posted by John G
dont see the probem myself, ur binnin it so why should they give you any money, we couldnt give two hoots tbh, meant we could fit more in the skip before payin to get it emptied
maybe by giving me money they can subtly contribute to the NHS
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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you were paying to get rid of it so they actually saved you some money
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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It's actually classed as theft if they don't ask.
When i was working doing up houses, It used to save us a fortune on skips with people taking things out of them!
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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quote:
Originally posted by John G
you were paying to get rid of it so they actually saved you some money
so less money goes towards taxes.
they should contribute towards the skip hire. if it wasn't for the skip they'd of not homed in and found their free money
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JaffaTB
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Registered: 7th Oct 09
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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me and my dad took our old dryer out a couple of weeks back, my mum was going to ring the council and get them to take it so we took it onto the front for them, we had just took it out come back in and sat down and this bloke knocked on the door asking if it was scrap, it was literally within 2 or 3 minutes!
last week some different gypo's came round asking for scrap, this big ginger one was just walking up peoples gardens having a look, went up next doors path knocked on the door and seeing they werent in he took a new mountain bike that they had left out, thieving cnut
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Andy Stocker
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Registered: 31st Aug 00
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How did they know to come down your road? As it's a quiet little road!
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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I've clocked them coming down here from the day we moved in, it's a nice area and they are always going around the roundabout looking on peoples drives to see what they can rob.
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fred7
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Registered: 17th May 04
Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire
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There like rats feed um once and they will keep coming!! had them in my work 2day trying to get stuff we tell um everyweek to fuk off but dont listen!!
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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One of them went to a mates building site and offered him a cut on his own sites copper fucking idiot.
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