Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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We have them coming into work for steel. Just realised i have a load of offcuts of ali under my bench. Think i'll fill the car and scrap it!
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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We also had a big pepsi fridge (like you have in newsagents) which was broke and we could get rid of anywhere, put it on the driveway and it was there about a month and one day it got robbed, god knows why
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mart08uk
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Registered: 10th Jan 08
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Brothers just brought a house had one of those old metal baths too.. left it down side of his garage as he was going to sell it or something... next day he came home from work to a big mess all over the drive  dragged it out smashed it on the fronts and took it away Badgers!
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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The opposite at work is happening. . .it's randomly filling up
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Gareth F
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Registered: 16th Jan 08
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quote:
Originally posted by deano87
The opposite at work is happening. . .it's randomly filling up
This is what happens round ourway, feckers fill them up so when we get ours it has to be filled in a day
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: nowhere near ginger people
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they are constantly interested in the scrap battery box at my work and also the old exhaust skip.
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nick_sri
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Registered: 5th May 09
Location: Crewe , Cheshire
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drive round in a transit round ere with a big megaphone shouting "any old iron" , fuckin annoyin when im workin nights lol
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Gareth F
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Registered: 16th Jan 08
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Throw an actual iron at them..... Then run 
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Funny you should say this but it happened at work the other day, I mean AMERSHAM FFS
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Adam C
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Registered: 10th Jan 07
Location: Cornwall UK Drives:Arden Blue Gsi T
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Opposite happens when we have a skip at home, all the neighbours seem to think they can just fill it up, where as at work the one we have gets filled with the pikeys old clothes and pill packets, bottles of old booze etc, always a good laugh to see the tramps picking things out and trying old clothes on after its been chucked in there
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Adam_B
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Registered: 13th Dec 00
Location: Lancashire
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We always get them round my work after old batterys. They also seem to like Pallets.
We have to turn them away though as we get deals back from the suppliers, i wouldnt be surprised if they broke in one night and robbed old batteries and pallets but left the thousands of pounds worth of new alloys and stereo stuff.
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Butler
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Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
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I left an exhaust on my drive once and some pikies tried taking it, lucky I caught them.
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Butler
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Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
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I reckon they must just drive round looking at houses to be honest.
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Course they do
Get different ones coming down my road, one set ring a bell as they drive round. Another set are more stealthy They took a few things out of the skip a few doors down the other day and last night.
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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Originally posted by Ojc
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.
Sorry mate.. I'll stop taking stuff out of your skip now!
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Twiggy
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Registered: 15th Oct 04
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When i had the 106 removed they put a cooker out the nearby skip in the boot and the slammed the boot on it which smashed the rear screen!!
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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How Wreckless!
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Ryan
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Registered: 23rd Jun 08
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quote:
Originally posted by nick_sri
drive round in a transit round ere with a big megaphone shouting "any old iron" , fuckin annoyin when im workin nights lol
They were down my street at about 9 this morning 
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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I found peopel not so much taking stuff to be the problem but all the fucking neighbours putting their shit in my skip! One even buried a bin lid under a pile of rubble and gravel but as I was saving all the copper at the time, I saw the copper handle sticking through the gravel, pulled it out and there was his bin lid - cheeky fucker
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by RYAN89
quote:
Originally posted by nick_sri
drive round in a transit round ere with a big megaphone shouting "any old iron" , fuckin annoyin when im workin nights lol
They were down my street at about 9 this morning
we have that round ours, with a transit flat bed. Every sunday when the Corsa was on the drive they asked if they could have it FOC, cheeky twats, weighed it in for £140!
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GF-91
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Registered: 8th Jul 09
Location: Burnley!
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I have seen a few times in my area of residence; people put computer desks and mirrors and such outside and wrote on a sheet of paper "free to good home"- or "Take me, I'm free  "
I didn't take it though.
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jonnysri
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Leeds (Ilkley)
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ive had some dodgy run ins with pikeys and scrap men, just walking through a house we were doing up and saying oh we'll have that and that and that.
advantage was. 5 of us and 2 of them. doesnt stop them coming back later for the tools and everything else but they just wouldnt leave, i thought it'd get messy.
lets face it, we could have had them but no doubt they would have brought back 3 tranny vans full of pikeys and burnt the fucking house down.
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aim1
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Registered: 26th Jun 06
Location: Kent
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Some scumbags stole two of the alloys off my car (as they didn't even use a jack and couldn't get the other two) so I changed the wheels and put the remaining two in garden...which were then also stolen in a couple of weeks. Unrelated crimes as there was 6 miles in between the incidents! I took the rear wheel off my old MR2 to change the brake disc
(as the MOT garage said it was cracked) and put the wheel under the car. Went into the house to make a cup of tea and it had gone 5 minutes later! Then I discovered the disc wasn't even cracked it was just a scratch!
You don't even realise how many people spend their days looking out for this type of stuff until you have something they want. The most recent incident I took a rear wheel and spare to a garage to get the tyres swapped and left the car on a jack for half an hour. When I got back my mum was actually standing guard over my car because of the amount of people that had been round after my jack/axle stands!
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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quote:
Originally posted by nick_sri
drive round in a transit round ere with a big megaphone shouting "any old iron" , fuckin annoyin when im workin nights lol
They do that round my way practically twice a week! They even use some dodgy horn/bugle/whatever that sounds like a dull fart whenever they use it.
It'd be great if they collected scrap cardboard - we've got loads of it here and yours truly has to take it to the recycling centre a.k.a. the tip every once in a while because our crappy council won't recycle them!
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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quote:
Originally posted by jonnysri
ive had some dodgy run ins with pikeys and scrap men, just walking through a house we were doing up and saying oh we'll have that and that and that.
advantage was. 5 of us and 2 of them. doesnt stop them coming back later for the tools and everything else but they just wouldnt leave, i thought it'd get messy.
lets face it, we could have had them but no doubt they would have brought back 3 tranny vans full of pikeys and burnt the fucking house down.
LMFAO
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