What's Your Best Hard Rubbish Find/Haul?

c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 18:32
Last edited 05/12/2018 - 20:09

I've had some really great hard rubbish hauls over the years. I've always been a bit of a hard rubbish pirate and dumpster diver so I've had some really good finds over the years, but today I think I hit my mother-lode.

Today I got:
1) LG 42LD560 (1080p, 100hz, smart functions, well reviewed) working fine. There was a Hitachi TV there also I am thinking of going back to get!
2) Brand new hot pink Lorna Jane shoes in the exact size my gf wears.
3) 2x 3/4 full Marc Jacobs & Ralf Lauren perfumes.
4) Samsung Gear VR (has been opened but protective plastic still on!).
5) Swanky SMEG microwave that still had the protective plastic on it! I ended up going back home and trading my disgusting microwave with it.

I'm going to head back there and see what else I can find!

EDIT:
6) Asus tablet
7) Large jewelers screw driver set
8) 2x Sagemcom NBN modem routers with AC wifi, USB3 and 4x gigabit ethernet ports.

Going to go back in a few hours and might find even more!

What's everyone's best finds?

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Comments

  • PrimalNuke on 05/12/2018 - 18:38
    +20

    Geez, must've been a rich suburb. Postcode?

    Best I've found was a i5 Sandy Bridge PC with a 7870 that I parted out and sold for around $450 all up.

    • c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 18:41
      +2

      Wow, that's actually a really nice find! I think that if I sold all of mine for the highest price I could get, that I would be lucky to get a bit over half the $450. Well done!

      Although once I got a really nice couch when I really needed a couch, and it got a lot of compliments until it fell apart a few years later. The cat found it really entertaining to go inside the crevices as it was falling apart. I miss that couch.

      Suburb is St Kilda Road - 3004, Melbourne. There's many upmarket apartment buildings and on hard rubbish days there's always great stuff to be found. There's also lots of tall commercial buildings that have great dumpster areas where on occasion there's heaps of computers/TVs/electronic gadgets to be found.

      • Daabido on 05/12/2018 - 19:19
        +5

        What about the cat?

        • c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 19:52
          +6

          Pretty sure Charles is still around. He is my landlord/room mates cat but I moved out of that place 6+ years ago. I miss him too, more than the couch that's for sure. I'm slightly allergic to cats but he was totally worth the sniffles and itching.

          Charles tax:
          https://imgur.com/a/jnz2FAr

    • HighAndDry on 05/12/2018 - 19:03
      +21

      If they're out on the kerb obviously waiting pick up by council, it's fair game.

      Of course, if it's nicely stacked and/or packed into boxes and it looks like someone's moving……

      • D C on 05/12/2018 - 19:56
        +7

        If they're out on the kerb obviously waiting pick up by council, it's fair game.

        Yeah, not so fast…

        Some councils state that if it's left for collection then it's theirs, so no pinching their stuff.

        Usually ignored, I assume the laws were introduced to punish the cretins who make a mess by smashing old TVs for 5 cents of copper.

        • HighAndDry on 05/12/2018 - 20:01
          +3

          Some councils state that if it's left for collection then it's theirs, so no pinching their stuff.

          Eh, this is a good summary, but councils don't set criminal laws - they really can't make the rules around this (afaik at least). Some councils have fines for "interfering"(?) with junk piles though, so yes, do so at your own risk.

          • D C on 05/12/2018 - 20:10
            +2

            @HighAndDry:

            but councils don't set criminal laws

            Who said anything about criminal laws (SMH), councils can create all the by-laws they like.

            I'll see your 'eh' with: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/317985 (as linked below).

            First (& 3rd) post so you don't have to read very far. Bonus points if you could be bothered to ask the poster where he lives so we all know where not to live.

            • HighAndDry on 05/12/2018 - 20:13

              @D C: From one of the links in that thread, seems to be:

              Brimbank, Casey, Frankston, Greater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Maroondah, among other councils, have local laws relating to hard rubbish scavengers.

        • smartazz104 on 06/12/2018 - 23:19
          +3

          Some councils state that if it's left for collection then it's theirs, so no pinching their stuff.

          Screw the councils, they already get enough and provide little benefit.

        • R4 on 07/12/2018 - 11:14
          +1

          On the TV thing, a few years ago, I put out a perfectly operational 32" Toshiba CRT TV with its original stand. This was a top of the range unit that had a great picture. I placed a sticker on the TV stating that it was working. Some moron came along, pushed the TV over smashing the screen and ripped out the power cord! Really annoying as someone really could have enjoyed that TV.

          Our local council no longer dos kerbside collections and gives us four skip bins a year instead.

          • macrocephalic on 07/12/2018 - 12:07
            +3

            @R4: That's because a CRT TV has a negative value now - no matter how good it was when you bought it. The only thing they're good for is the copper they contain.

            • R4 on 07/12/2018 - 12:19
              +1

              @macrocephalic: Sure, but this was a few years ago.

              Someone could have enjoyed that TV - like someone who's got no income or a pensioner.

            • relentless on 07/12/2018 - 17:15
              +6

              @macrocephalic: People get them for retro gaming.

              • RefusdClassification on 09/12/2018 - 04:39

                @relentless: The good thing about CRTs was that they worked well at any resolution. LCD tech looks blurry at non-default resolutions. My first computer had a 320x240 4 colour CGA monitor. It wasn't until you had a 640 x 480 256 colour SVGA that games started to look good (eg Ultima 7). And then came true colour, 24 bit: photographs looked great insread of being an ugly, dithered mess.

          • brad1-8tsi on 13/12/2018 - 10:38
            +1

            @R4: Most of the scrappers are morons. You only have to look at the scrapping channels on YouTube to confirm that.

            The most annoying bit is that they want the copper from the back of the tube but don't take the degaussing copper from around the tube.

        • nith265 on 07/12/2018 - 15:15

          Some councils state that if it's left for collection then it's theirs, so no pinching their stuff.

          Our council used to seem to separate the good stuff from the genuine rubbish for recycling or resale. Now they just squash the lot into the back of a garbage truck. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the thing eat the 2 old and torn leather couches we put out.

        • desert eagle on 08/12/2018 - 13:35

          There's probably some public liability protection in their too I imagine? I.e - Best not to rummage through unfamiliar stuff in case of hazardous materials.

          • D C on 08/12/2018 - 17:00

            @desert eagle:

            public liability

            There's a thought. When I cut myself whilst smashing an old telly to get that 5 cents worth of copper, whom do I sue?

            Apart from @pegaxs, obviously. I'll assume it was his telly even though it was 5 blocks & an entire state away.

    • c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 19:13
      +2

      It probably is by definition, but if the council wants to enforce the law and send the fuzz after me - I have a feeling it's going to cost them a lot more resources to recover the items than it's worth.

      I think it's one of the few laws that the far majority of people in this country are against.

      • ozboygsl on 06/12/2018 - 08:06
        +1

        fuzz… now there's a term I haven't heard for a long time.

    • altomic on 05/12/2018 - 19:46
      +7

      *you're

      • D C on 05/12/2018 - 19:57
        +7

        yo're
        y'all
        yul
        yo
        youz
        youzes
        you'zes's
        you's

        • altomic on 06/12/2018 - 11:53

          yaw the best.

        • vj187 on 08/12/2018 - 10:41
          +1

          Found a toy rocket ship with YAW control in the hard rubbish

    • Choc0 on 07/12/2018 - 18:11

      Firstly, it's "you're"

      Secondly, you're wrong.

  • Sage on 05/12/2018 - 19:04
    +5

    I'm too embarrassed to go through hard rubbish.

    • c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 19:09
      +25

      I've been yelled at before after getting out of my "nice car to go through other peoples rubbish".

      I once told them "that's how I afford the nice car".

      I'm pretty shameless though and love being combative - I can see how that kind of confrontation may embarrass most people.

      • burtie on 05/12/2018 - 19:43
        +24

        It strikes me as really odd when people are precious about their rubbish. Why do they prefer it to go to landfill instead of being reused? I always feel better when people take the things I’m tossing out during kerbside collection.

        • D C on 05/12/2018 - 20:00
          +2

          Why do they prefer it to go to landfill instead of being reused?

          Partly "Hey, someone could be making money of my stuff! Not cool!"; partly "Gah, here's another idiot going to make a mess smashing everything for a few cents worth of wire"

        • bobbieb on 05/12/2018 - 20:07
          +1

          Personally, I don't think it's being precious… but I am often genuinely concerned at what becomes of the stuff that gets snapped up from the curbside.

          I have encountered a number of folk that make a living from harvesting, "fixing", then reselling appliances. When pushed, all of them ultimately admitted to having no real training, let alone qualifications when it came to working with mains powered.

          I know that some will take exception to this, but when it comes to appliances, I go out of my way to ensure that any dead appliances that I put out, stay dead. Recycle the raw materials all you like, but I need to be comfortable that my old CRT tv or bar heater isn't gonna burn someone's house down.

          • pegaxs on 05/12/2018 - 21:09
            -8

            @bobbieb: That's my concern as well. They take something that I am throwing out because it is broken or close to it and either try and repair it or sell it on gumtree and then it injures or kills someone.

            This can also support drug habits. Some meth riddled bogan comes past and picks through my rubbish just to get enough money to get a hit, to then get in their car and drive into a school crossing, high as (fropanity) killing people.

            The third group is the arseholes who just tear your shit to pieces on the yard to pick through bag, but don’t have the decency to clean it up to repack it when their done.

            Have I ever seen something I thought I could use? ie: bicycle, Yes. But I ALWAYS go to the door and ask, "do you mind if I have the bike?" If they say yes, I'll take it. If not, it gets left.

            • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2018 - 17:24
              -7

              @pegaxs:

              go to the door and ask, "do you mind if I have the bike?" If they say yes, I'll take it. If not, it gets left.

              You're not welcome to trespass upon my private property and come to my door and bother me. Some gronk did this recently (though with stuff outside my front door, not out on the street, which is council land) then I hear him tell his mate in the car "he got cranky with me".
              If something is out ok council land, just take it as long as you don't make a mess. IMO your helping the entire neighborhood out, because it certainly is unsightly having a pile of trash sitting out front, so the sooner it's gone the better.
              Last thing I want is some stranger bothering me coming to me door to ask me about something which isn't even mine. It is thrown out and on council land not my land.

              • GalaxySkater58 on 06/12/2018 - 18:39
                +9

                @[Deactivated]: Hate to burst your bubble but knocking on someone's front door is not trespassing.

                  • pegaxs on 07/12/2018 - 10:24
                    +7

                    @[Deactivated]: Sorry to burst your bubble there, Chewie. Anyone is allowed to enter your land to come to your front door. It is not until they are "asked to leave" and then refuse to do so that they are trespassing. You can have all the signs up in the world, but if they approach your door, they are not trespassing, that is, until you ask them to leave. If they leave, no problem. If they don’t, then the police can be called or you can use "reasonable force" to eject them from the property.

                    This changes if you have an enclosed, fenced property. The act of crossing that boundary comes under "unlawful entry" and becomes a criminal matter, not a civil one. But, if you have a gate that they can open and come up to the front door, or an open driveway, that comes under the "implied access" rules.

                    "Do Not Knock" signs only apply to sales people. It does not apply to random people, neighbours, charity, politicians, postman, emergency services or your daughters arsehat boyfriend.

                    From the NSW State Library Law Reference website:

                    Under the law of trespass, if someone enters the property without permission you can ask them to leave. If they refuse to go when asked, they are trespassing and you can use reasonable force to remove them.

                    and

                    A person who enters with a particular purpose (for example, a door-to-door salesman or a neighbour visiting) has an implied right to come onto your property and up to your door.

                    (Please note, this is for NSW, other states may vary.)

                    • lainey13 on 07/12/2018 - 11:41
                      +1

                      @pegaxs: Mormons also ignore the sign. NO I don't want your bible or to talk about God. Doorslam!

                      • pegaxs on 07/12/2018 - 12:21

                        @lainey13: That’s because they are not obliged to follow the sign. The “do not knock” is only for sales people. Religion and charity workers are exempt.

                      • bargaino on 07/12/2018 - 20:12

                        @lainey13: Actually, Mormons are the only God-botherers I like.

                        they tend to be intelligent, and give considered answers.
                        Unlike say the Jehovah's who all seem to be idiots and/or emotionally disturbed.

                  • R4 on 07/12/2018 - 11:17

                    @[Deactivated]: As other's have said, someone coming up and knocking on your front door is not trespassing - despite what your signs state

                    • [Deactivated] on 08/12/2018 - 05:31

                      @R4: It may not be the legal definition of trespassing… Look in a dictionary, it is trespassing . I never stated it is unlawful trespassing. It is still tresspassing nonetheless, "to make an unwarranted or uninvited incursion"

                      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trespass

              • Croshema on 09/12/2018 - 09:44
                +1

                @[Deactivated]: People who are socialised enough to be outside asking questions of strangers probably struggle to fathom that someone might have such a problem with something a high percentage of society thinks Is a non issue.

                Personality defects not withstanding.

                Then again I remember a whirlpool thread where people said they wouldn’t answer the door knock of a friend who did not call ahead to arrange a visit.

            • Pantagonist on 06/12/2018 - 22:36
              +3

              @pegaxs: My sides. You're like the love child of Today Tonight and A Current Affair.

        • Gandalf the Thrifty on 05/12/2018 - 22:03
          +1

          I'm not so concerned about people injuring themselves with rubbish(although we threw out an expired child car seat once that some one collected…)

          The mess the idiots make is more concerning. The new breed of scavenger come with power tools and take specific components from electrical item leaving screws and mess all over your lawn (had this happen at 2am!).

          Heard story of sliding door getting glass smashed out so they could just take the metal frame.

          Kids bikes and car trailers being taken even though not on council side.

          • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2018 - 17:39

            @Gandalf the Thrifty:

            The mess the idiots make is more concerning

            This is the real concern. I am more than happy for someone to take away the unsightly pile of trash (or part thereof) as long as they dont make a mess.
            I would much rather something be reused rather than going into landfill. Even the transport to tip or recycling centre costs in 'energy' therefore is a cost to the environment. If someone is passing by anyway, and can reuse the item, that's great for me, them, and the planet.
            I picked up a clothes basket the other day, nothing else there, so probably not an official hard rubbish collection, just people often put things out here hoping someone will take them and use them (sometimes with a sign "free"). One of the clothes baskets had some disgusting soggy rubbish in it, momentarily I considered tipping it out, but instead I grabbed a plastic bag from car, turned it insided out, grabbed the rubbish, tied bag up and took the soggy trash (and semi broken clothes baskets) with me.
            I think a vast majority of people would have no issue at all with people re-using their throw out hard rubbish, as long as they take similar consideration as I did. Make sure you leave everything as tidy or more tidy, then it was.
            I doubt that majority of councils would even care, if not for the inconsiderate idiots who make a mess, or disrupt residents with noise ate at night etc.

        • skidexa on 06/12/2018 - 19:47
          +1

          Sometimes they fling all the stuff all over the place when going through the rubbish and leave a mess. I've never experienced it but have seen it happen

        • serpserpserp on 06/12/2018 - 20:57

          I only get pissed when people strip shit off my hard rubbish. Some of the stuff I put out is worth money, I just can't be arsed using GumTree to get rid of it. But if you like something on a piece of furniture or the like, take the whole piece instead of just ruining it and making a mess.

        • rlay3 on 06/12/2018 - 22:16
          +1

          I agree. I put out a whole bunch of stuff out for hard rubbish (I live on a main road) and was glad to see half the stuff taken and hopefully enjoyed by someone else.

          I had a whole lot of junk in a Ryobi cardboard box and the amount of people who pulled over, looked inside and were disappointed was amazing!

        • brian77 on 06/12/2018 - 23:59

          I feel the same way. We once put out our old childhood bikes and it was great to see them being taken by parents with their kids.

        • chuckles89 on 07/12/2018 - 17:01
          +1

          agree! for some reason its an oddly great feeling especially when you've just placed something and its gone real quick

      • Hirolol on 08/12/2018 - 10:54

        Are you the same guy that used to go through rubbish bins at shopping Centers to find any coke rewards labels?
        I remember that guy saying he was very shameless too!

  • 87percent on 05/12/2018 - 19:24
    +11

    Toy box full of Lego pieces. Probably about 10kg worth

    • ItsMeAgro on 08/12/2018 - 21:33

      10kg!? That's like a thousand bucks worth…

    • c0balt on 05/12/2018 - 19:42
      +41

      You.. handled dog crap to put inside an iPad box?

      Up to that point I thought "hey what ever gets you some laughs" but if you are that jaded then I can safely say that even the most meth head looking bogan you are trying to annoy, is doing just as badly or possibly better than you upstairs.

      What's next, sticking yourself with a used syringe to get your next laugh? Damn, dude. You should look for a bargain on a holiday or something.

        • HighAndDry on 06/12/2018 - 10:28
          +1

          The garbage scabs in my area are like rabid dogs. They get into your neatly piled stuff and rip open bags, tear cardboard boxes and throw stuff around.

          Ah. This gives more context. Otherwise I was thinking you had a weird way to entertain yourself.

        • John Kimble on 06/12/2018 - 11:18
          +1

          Rabid dogs

          bin chickens?

          • pegaxs on 06/12/2018 - 12:46
            -5

            @John Kimble: Bag hags. Box cocks. You get the idea… but I do like “bin chickens” :D

        • spook290 on 06/12/2018 - 16:26
          +2

          Wait…. so you took a box full of shaken up dog shit to work?

          I imagine that would've been a weird as F conversation if someone was asking what the smell was…

        • tight-a55 on 07/12/2018 - 09:27
          +5

          handle the poop!

          HE CALLED THE SHIT POOP!

          • pegaxs on 07/12/2018 - 18:53
            -4

            @tight-a55: Oh, that's what I'm getting down voted for???

            Here I was thinking it was because I triggered all these hard garbage scaggs with their PTSD… :D

        • captaincabinets on 08/12/2018 - 16:15

          You sound like a very angry person. You may need to seek professional help.

          • pegaxs on 08/12/2018 - 16:59

            @captaincabinets: Trust me, I’m not. This thread has me cracking up.

            The only angry ones here are all the neggers and commenters who think I care what they think and that are butt hurt that I played a practical joke on some greedy slob who scabbed through my rubbish.

            If anything, this has only solidified my resolve to pull off another hoax delivery drop of even more epic proportions. :D

            • captaincabinets on 08/12/2018 - 18:20

              @pegaxs: Your posts smack of the just-world hypothesis. Sometimes people who go through hard refuse are dicks, as you say. Sometimes they're 'regular' respectful people like me who like to reuse things at home or at my work rather than add to landfill. Sometimes they're desperate people who've been through horrendous situations that are no fault of their own. Some people may deserve a box full of shit, some of them will get another kick when they're down.

              • pegaxs on 08/12/2018 - 19:17
                +1

                @captaincabinets: LOL @ respectful. Did you find a soap box to stand on last hard garbage day? Or, maybe a high horse?

                No problems champ. But these scuzzez that have gone though my hard rubbish are just opportunistic d-bags. They turn up as crews with cars and trailers. This is not an under privileged woman trying to find a first bike for her kid. It's not a starving family that just needs a microrwave to heat their meals or a fridge to keep what little food they have, stored. These are organised groups of people with the intent of finding and selling stuff at a profit, no matter how broken it is.

                They are greedy bung jobs that are trying to get stock for free. This is evident by the sharp increase in garbage stuff for sale on Gumtree in the area right around hard garbage week.

                Take your bleeding heart and tell someone who may care. I donate thousands of dollars a year to local charity organisations and I donate hours of my time each week to helping people out who are in need. This is how people are helped, not through scabbing through others rubbish.

                This whole thread is a disgusting testament to that fact. It is full of greed and disillusionment. Almost every story here is one of "I took that, sold it for that. LOL PROFIT!!" and most of these people are not in need and are not certainly NOT helping the people that do need help.

                So, your comment is false and misleading. While there may be a small portion of people who need to find something to help make ends meet, the reality is that most hard garbage scabs are just that. Opportunistic, greedy, destructive, zero respect tools.

                Someone who rips open and destroys a bag, emptying rubbish out to get to what they think is a new iPad is not doing it because they need it. They are doing it out of greed. If that was a real iPad it was going straight on eBay or Gumtree. Not to someone who needs it.

                (And for the record, the iPad from the dog turd trap box was was given to a young girl at the school I volunteer at, because her parents couldn’t afford to buy one for her, so I gave her my old one.)

                • captaincabinets on 08/12/2018 - 19:57
                  +1

                  @pegaxs: "tell someone who cares" - writes wall of text in reply. No worries man, playing it cool there.

                  It's great that you donate money to charity and volunteer. It sounds like you're a better person than your disgusting prank and keyboard-mashing rage implies.

                  The fact that you've taken so much time and effort to write your wall of reply suggests to me that you're trying very hard to justify your words and actions. You still sound like a lonely angry person to me.

                  • pegaxs on 08/12/2018 - 21:27
                    -1

                    @captaincabinets: No problem. Thanks for your input.

                    I do a lot of work with a lot of underprivileged kids and families in my community. I’m all set for karma though over a few butt hurt bogans and a box full of dog shit.

                    And assumptions, feel free to make them about everything in my life based on this one thread.

                    I’ll continue to laugh here as I come in and read the continued commentary from people who think they know me and think they will feel better if they make a bullshit comment about my personality based on a random thread on an Internet forum.

                    If it helps you sleep… ;)

                    • [Deactivated] on 13/12/2018 - 14:39
                      -1

                      @pegaxs: haha pegs ur my hero

                      I hate these scum as well

                      Once I threw out a perfectly fine table, knowing it would be collected by these grubs

                      I snapped off one leg and smashed a large hole through the middle of the table, just so they couldnt get it in one piece.

                      Threw out a working printer too, but took all the working parts out and destroyed them :D

    • kusama on 05/12/2018 - 20:14
      +5

      Damnit Peg, I tried. This one deserves a neg

      • pegaxs on 05/12/2018 - 20:31

        All good :D

    • Ryanek on 06/12/2018 - 08:42
      +9

      Ahh you're one of those people who find enjoyment in the misery of others.

        • Ryanek on 06/12/2018 - 13:45
          +9

          Nah, I think your attitude thus far is pretty telling.

          • pegaxs on 06/12/2018 - 14:55
            -3

            @Ryanek: Same to be said for yours. :)

        • Chris12345 on 07/12/2018 - 18:26

          Few too many pearl clutchers in the OzB community eh?

      • John Kimble on 06/12/2018 - 13:56

        Don't we all (to some degree)? Even if you won't admit it? It's like everyone is racist…its human nature.

    • h4zey on 06/12/2018 - 16:02
      +1

      mate… i don't know what to say.. i would to watch you watch them!

      • pegaxs on 06/12/2018 - 16:04

        Next hard garbage haul, I'm going to set the camera up to record it all and make a video of what these arseholes do. Maybe even sit in the garage, door up, on a comfy chair, sip on a few cold ones with some mates and turn it into a spectator sport… Hell, I may even live stream it on Twitch. :D

        • h4zey on 06/12/2018 - 16:45

          i want the whole process recorded, from the preparation all the way to the end. gonna take me mate and kids to watch, this will be awesome!

          • pegaxs on 06/12/2018 - 19:12
            -4

            @h4zey: My only disappointment is I'm never there for the unboxing. :(

            I can see from all the butt hurt neg votes I'm getting, that a few people may have already received their very own, greed destroying dog turd in a box, so I look forward to next hard garbage night knowing how much butt hurt this can inflict.

            I really want one of those "dumpster diver" YouTube stars to do a video on it… :D

            "And next up, look what we got here… looks like someone threw out an iPad… Wow, guys, still in the wrapper and everything. Brand new. I'll be able to sell this for at least $400… lets open it up."
            *removes plastic*
            *slowly slides open box*
            "WTF!…"

            Only disappointment would be they wouldn’t really appreciate the smell as much, as it would just meld into the smell of the garbage tip in their house anyway…

            • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2018 - 19:44

              @pegaxs: Hey @pegaxs why don't you just load your rubbish into a trailer and take it to the tip like we do in Queensland. Or just live a minamilistic clutter free life!

              Seems like an easy solution to people messing up your yard

              • pegaxs on 06/12/2018 - 19:58

                @[Deactivated]: I can go one better. I take it to work, in a work ute, on work fuel, in work time and dump it in work's hopper bins.

                Hard garbage for our house is usually a honey pot thing I do for amusement. One year I saved up a box full of electrical extension cord ends from work and left it out and made it look like it was full of leads. Put it out when I got home, about 5:30, it was gone by 9.

                The more negs I get in this thread, the more I want to up the ante this year and do something even funnier, knowing just how much butt hurt it causes the greedy freeloaders.

                I'm open to suggestions, providing it doesn't hurt, maim or kill anyone.

                • Pantagonist on 06/12/2018 - 22:17
                  +5

                  @pegaxs:

                  knowing just how much butt hurt it causes the greedy freeloaders.

                  This is incredibly ironic coming from the person who blocks comments from people on OzBargain whose opinions he can't handle. ;D

                  I've dug through worse than dog poo in a box to unearth gems in roadside trash. It pretty much shows you up as the easily offended soul that you are if you think your lame hijinks are deferring anyone.

            • h4zey on 07/12/2018 - 09:34
              +1

              @pegaxs: I suggest you follow them home, get a dash cam and video cam.. you can make a killing on youtube!

    • outlander on 06/12/2018 - 18:10
      +8

      Wow. You succeeded in making yourself lower than a, and I quote, 'pathetic, bottom swimming bogan'
      That takes real skill. Even thieving heroin addicts only sink to those depths because they're forced to. But you choose to.

      Wow

      Well done.

    • dylo on 07/12/2018 - 20:41

      I lost a few brain cells reading this thread

      • pegaxs on 07/12/2018 - 21:41
        -1

        Only a few? :D

  • neo on 05/12/2018 - 19:46
    +5

    I don't get the why some people care if others come to pick up items that they could easily put back into use instead of landfill!

    Some good stories here - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/317985

    • HighAndDry on 06/12/2018 - 10:29

      From pegaxs' comment above:

      The garbage scabs in my area are like rabid dogs. They get into your neatly piled stuff and rip open bags, tear cardboard boxes and throw stuff around.

      I feel that'd get really old, really fast.

      • Pantagonist on 06/12/2018 - 22:26
        +2

        I feel that'd get really old, really fast.

        If it actually happens, although I suspect that it doesn't.

        That said, it sounds like there's an open invite for beers in pegaxs' shed for any "mates" who'd like to join him and watch the live video stream from outside his house. I'd certainly be interested to hear back from anyone who attends.

        tumbleweed

      • neo on 06/12/2018 - 22:26

        Agree on that point. There needs to be some common sense from those picking through items. Maybe labelling could alleviate some of the problem but then again some are just wild no matter what!

        • altomic on 06/12/2018 - 23:51
          +5

          when i hard rubbish collect I usually leave the pile cleaner than I found it. because (A) it makes it easier for collection, (B) it's the right thing to do, (C) I'm not a jerk.

          • pegaxs on 07/12/2018 - 08:56

            @altomic: Then you can come over and go through my pile of hard garbage any time, altomic. It’s a shame that not everyone has the same respect. (I’ll even tell you what’s “tampered” with ;)

            In my area, the council has strict guidelines on how the rubbish must be stacked, and if it isn’t neatly stacked, they will just drive on by and drop a note in your letterbox about why it wasn’t picked up. Found that out the hard way.

  • pennypincher98 on 05/12/2018 - 20:19

    Best I've found is an Aldi Coffee Machine that still works :P

    Guess I live in a poor area lol - but to be fair I don't dig, what I can see as I'm walking past is what I might grab. Also don't do the neighbourhood search. Am I a bad Ozbargainer?

  • Clear on 05/12/2018 - 20:26
    -1

    1980s Subaru $100 with a full tank. Surprisingly it wasn't a pricing error and worked very well.

    Oh and a Google Search Appliance for $1 because it looks good in the homelab rack and can be repurposed as a normal server.

    I'm also an avid video game collector and have found a lot of gems at garage sales and fairs for <$20. eBay used to be good back in the day, but now it's like reselling lego. That good condition copy of Wolfenstein 3D is selling for $200-$600ish.

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