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[Jaswalker24]

Today whilst waiting in for my new virgin router the 'rag and bone man' decided to take my exhaust off my drive, I'm just disgusted that someone would actually go and do that

[E.L.M.O]

how do you know it was him and was it just left laying there?

no excuse I hate these people. Bunch of theives who help themselves to anything.

[Jaswalker24]

because i heard his bell, my dad left it down the side of the garage not really in plain view

[E.L.M.O]

what an utter goit.
how dare they. That is theft. id fill in a police report

[Jaswalker24]

i was pretty annoyed but its an old exhaust, getting a new one soon
a kid over the road took a brand new car battery from his next door neighbours garden and gave it to them

[E.L.M.O]

ive heard stories of them taking cars off peoples drive that they presume to be scrap.

[sonikk4]

I have now had them turn up again today in a people carrier of all things and calm as you like pulls up on my neighbours drive and shouts to me and Scott "any scrap" and this with the people carrier full of kids and his toil and strife. Cheeky fecker!!

[Jaswalker24]

i had to warn my dad about leaving the garage door, i had one of them threaten to petrol bomb me a year ago, always got lip from them, but still shocked they go onto properties and take it

[mini_mad69]

Mate of mine was working on a large house, replacing all the alluminium guttering with plastic, he had the old metal down the side of his house out of view and they came and pinched it. He saw it in the scrappers the next week when he took some stuff down.

[AVV IT]

because i heard his bell

Geeeez "Rag and Bone Men" ringing their bells???? ........Where do you live?? The "East End" in Edwardian times??

I honestly did'nt realise that the "Rag & Bone" industry was still alive and well these days!! I thought it died a death and became the scrap yard industry in the seventies!! (Which consequently also virtually died a death and became the automotive & metals recycling industry in the nineties!! )

[Shifty]

I get then round all the time, I just wind my dog up and then open the door(whilst holding onto him!!). That usually works, not had the same one back twice yet.

I can't let him go as that would spoil the illusion of him being a vicious scrap-thieving-scum-biter!!

[1984mini25]

See them all the time, but I bet most people don’t know that you have to have a licence to carry other people’s scrap.

[Pending]

the sods did me on friday! took my complete rear subby and centre exhaust, >

[minisilverbullet]

Geeeez "Rag and Bone Men" ringing their bells???? ........Where do you live?? The "East End" in Edwardian times??

lol indeed, sounds like an old story from my grandfather!

[Tupers]

Being in an industrial estate we get them round all the time. There where couple guys a while ago that emptied our scrap skid into the back of a drop side transit. One of the lads I work with caught them stood their with his mobile and told them he'd call the cops if they didn't put it back.

Apparently the scrap went back into our skip amazingly fast.