People are fucking DUMB
 

Today i put a couple of CRT monitors out on the front lawn with a signt that "free, works perfectly'. I thought maybe someone could use them who couldn't afford lcds or whatever. Guess what happens though...some fucking bum who drives around here picking up peoples garbage to resell comes and doesn't take them but fucking cuts the wires off and leaves them! I couldn't believe it. Anyways, I chased him down and made him take the monitors. They are useless now and I'm sure won't be disposed of properly but holy fuck, I couldn't believe that shit.

Goddamn that sucks. WTF

wtf? should of beat him with one of the monitors

That happens all the time here too!

Hey thats not too bad, try it around here and someone will just smash the screens and leave you with a huge pile of glass all over your lawn. Or you'd get some ticket for breaking some obscure law. Or both. blah

That is fucked up, what an asshole!

lol i guess it could be worse. the idea that someone would do that never crossed my mind. thats the last time i do that.

Crazy.

Did he say what he going to use the wires for? Maybe the monitors would have gotten in the way of fashioning a noose? lol

Don't even do anything nice for anyone. It's not worth it anymore. Expect a ticket if you ever do anything like that again.

Human beings are shit. Our society is turning to shit and I want to move to the middle of Wyoming.

Couple weeks ago I caught someone stealing all the cans and bottles out of my recycling bin.

Ha, I have no idea. All I could think is maybe he wanted the little bit of copper in the wires to sell but in doing so he made them totally useless to anyone. I didn't even try to ask what he wanted the wires for.

He is collecting the wire for the copper, and whatever is in it to sell to the scrap yards.

We have a lot of that around here. People who will nit pick through your shit just looking for the steel, copper, and aluminum or whatever it is that scrap yards take by the pound. He knew those monitors were not worth a shit, but he wanted the copper in the wires.

:2 cents:

Better off giving those monitors to a struggling school district. I know they still use them in some areas.

Inside should/could be a long degauzing wire though I think, many wraps around the tube. That bum will be in copper heaven.

I tried researching places to donate them to around here but found nothing. I posted them on kijiji and gave one away to someone who needed it but no one seems to want them anymore.

This guys picks through the garbage every week then sells it at yard sales he has. He probably could of sold them for a few bucks rather than the few pennies he'll get from the copper.

If he cracked it open to get at any degauzing wires, he'd most likely end up touching the leads to the flyback transformer and get juiced. :1orglaugh

it's not stealing if you throw it out as refuse :2 cents:

Indeed stupid :helpme

should have taken them to your kids school.

In today's society not really surprising. some people do incredibly stupid shit.

People do that here all the time. I figure if they have the time to do that, though, then they need my bottles more than I do. :(

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh how much he get for wires? :D

I figured you would say someone smashed them up.

weren't the wires free?

It's funny watching some guys with huge bags full riding their bikes to the depot

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