Bloody hell!!

[Smiffy]

Having the radiators all changed in the house today and had arranged for a guy I know to come and collect the old ones.
They have been out by the front gate for literally half an hour and I have already had two rucks with two different Eastern Europeans that have pulled up in vans 10 minutes apart trying to load them up. No please or thank you, just trying to pinch them!!
I can't believe the bare faced cheek of them. One of them got really aggressive when I told him to do one....
????

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Having the radiators all changed in the house today and had arranged for a guy I know to come and collect the old ones.
They have been out by the front gate for literally half an hour and I have already had two rucks with two different Eastern Europeans that have pulled up in vans 10 minutes apart trying to load them up. No please or thank you, just trying to pinch them!!
I can't believe the bare faced cheek of them. One of them got really aggressive when I told him to do one....
????

Mate we had the loft done every single rad I got changed went

As did the old doors?

 

[SteveW86]

we have a similar thing with pallets in the yard at work

 

[Ethan]

Having the radiators all changed in the house today and had arranged for a guy I know to come and collect the old ones.
They have been out by the front gate for literally half an hour and I have already had two rucks with two different Eastern Europeans that have pulled up in vans 10 minutes apart trying to load them up. No please or thank you, just trying to pinch them!!
I can't believe the bare faced cheek of them. One of them got really aggressive when I told him to do one....
????

In some places, leaving stuff out on the road is an invitation for people to take them, though, innit?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Having the radiators all changed in the house today and had arranged for a guy I know to come and collect the old ones.
They have been out by the front gate for literally half an hour and I have already had two rucks with two different Eastern Europeans that have pulled up in vans 10 minutes apart trying to load them up. No please or thank you, just trying to pinch them!!
I can't believe the bare faced cheek of them. One of them got really aggressive when I told him to do one....
????

One thing I will say is what's wrong with them taking them? Where are you putting them? Landfill? If so they might be reusing them or something

Beats landfill

 

[Smiffy]

In some places, leaving stuff out on the road is an invitation for people to take them, though, innit?

Yeah but apparently they are supposed to ask when it is obvious who they belong to, as it was in this case
Otherwise, it's classed as theft

 

[backwoodsman]

The radiators have a scrap value. I guess the issue is that they should have asked first - and indeed, Smiffy may have already promised them to someone else

 

[Smiffy]

One thing I will say is what's wrong with them taking them? Where are you putting them? Landfill? If so they might be reusing them or something

Beats landfill

Because I had already promised them to somebody else!
And they wanted them for their scrap value.
And where would they have ended up if the scrappie hadn't wanted them? Fly tipped??
The guy who I promised them to has helped me out in the past so if I had wanted anyone to have profited from them it would have been him, not a couple of thieves

 

[Smiffy]

The radiators have a scrap value. I guess the issue is that they should have asked first - and indeed, Smiffy may have already promised them to someone else

Sums it up

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Because I had already promised them to somebody else!
And they wanted them for their scrap value.
And where would they have ended up if the scrappie hadn't wanted them? Fly tipped??
The guy who I promised them to has helped me out in the past so if I had wanted anyone to have profited from them it would have been him, not a couple of thieves

Ah then that's fair enough ... If you promised them to someone else I retract my statement

 

[backwoodsman]

In some places, leaving stuff out on the road is an invitation for people to take them, though, innit?

Should post this in the random irritations thread - down my street, people are always putting their old crap out on the street, hoping that someone will take it (rather than going to the trouble of disposing of it properly.). Its just middle class fly tipping. I keep being tempted to push it back into their garden. (Ps: this not a dig at Smiffy - he was in process of doing stuff properly).

 

[Ethan]

Should post this in the random irritations thread - down my street, people are always putting their old crap out on the street, hoping that someone will take it (rather than going to the trouble of disposing of it properly.). Its just middle class fly tipping. I keep being tempted to push it back into their garden. (Ps: this not a dig at Smiffy - he was in process of doing stuff properly).

At this point, I would like to state for the record that I don't do this myself, but I have often heard it suggested on social media or in the pub.

 

[jim8flog]

I had several knocks on the door when mine were in the driveway. I said yes to one and the next next day they were gone trouble was they also took other stuff that was on the driveway that I wanted that was actually out of site from the road.

 

[larmen]

In our area there seems to be a 2nd hand market of stuff left outside the house, usually with a note of help yourself. Mostly kids toys, but I have seen a radiator and a couple of doors.

There is also a pop up library a couple of roads down, started as a table on the drive way during lockdown 1, now it is a glass door cabinet. But that is in a garden, road facing.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

There have been examples locally of people going into gardens to take away metal items. Radiators left at the end of a drive is one thing, coming into your garden is another step altogether.

 

[Smiffy]

Surely if it's on the pavement it's fair game for anyone?

They weren't on the pavement. They were stacked on our front path by the gate

 

[Tashyboy]

There have been instances where plumbers have removed radiators, drained the water outside and left the radiator there with the intention of replacing the radiator later. Only for said radiator to have grown legs when the plumber has returned to fit it. A couple of years ago the local parish councillors stopped the “ travelling community” from coming round nigh on twice a day. They were calling over the PA system “ scrap metal “. It was getting on folks nerves. It’s a fine line that when you leave out anything scrap from washing machines to radiators to be collected. You invite people of scrupulous nature to eye things up.

 

[Scoobiesnax]

I leave stuff out that I don't want and someone might get the benefit - furniture etc etc. Not gone in a few days I go to local tip. Oh and it's nice to be called middle class, thank you!!

 

[Imurg]

The guy 2 doors up is a central heating engineer
He's always got scrap pipes, rads, bits and bobs.
He leaves then in his front garden and a van comes round about 5am, 2 burly Eastern Europeans(judging by their accents) lump it all in, making as much noise as they can.
Saves him a fortune.

 

[Jamesbrown]

Thought it was common knowledge that any metal you want gone you leave out on the street and the fairies collect it?
Same happens when you leave washing on the bedroom or bathroom floor, seems to end up washed!