Scrap metal?
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Permalink Reply by pjc jr on
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I have seen these guys go after anything, I think they drive around with SawZaws!
Also, I damaged a steel frame beyond use and brought it in myself to recycle. Got a whole $0.92 cents for a stripped down frame. I think all the scrappers and recycle guys were laughing at my attempt. So why (except for if they plan to fix and resell themselves) is it worth them going after bikes? Yet I see trucks all over the north side with bikes at top of their piles. (hard to climb up into a scraper truck to pull a bike off the top) Sad, even junked bikes I always find a couple useful parts to recycle into a new build.
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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on
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It's just English.
I'll try again at a lower reading level:
Even if there are only a very few bad apples in the scrapper bunch, because there are so many scrappers wandering around out there these days nothing is safe from thievery by the (albeit small) minority of Ethically-challenged-Americans.
H3N3 said:Not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but I have several documented cases of scrappers stealing (or trying to steal) bikes recently, so if you're assuming I was trying to say that it doesn't happen, you're reading something into my post.
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Permalink Reply by Amy on
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Spencer, curious to know if that's the same license plate (see photo from post) or if the scrappers changed it out since your incident.
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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on
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Are you posting from a handheld?
Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! said:H, you talking to me or James? I was providing my coincidental experience with only these scrappers. Take my limited data and clear invested bias into account.
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OK, thanks-- I thought maybe you were looking for an argument.
James Baum said:It's just English.
I'll try again at a lower reading level:
Even if there are only a very few bad apples in the scrapper bunch, because there are so many scrappers wandering around out there these days nothing is safe from thievery by the (albeit small) minority of Ethically-challenged-Americans.
H3N3 said:Not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but I have several documented cases of scrappers stealing (or trying to steal) bikes recently, so if you're assuming I was trying to say that it doesn't happen, you're reading something into my post.
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LOL -who me? :-P
Words are fun. We can disagree non-violently and nobody needs to be whacked over the head (or through a windshield) with a U-lock ;)
H3N3 said:OK, thanks-- I thought maybe you were looking for an argument.
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James:
Smile an everlasting smile, a smile can bring you
near to me.
Don't ever let me find you down, cause that would
bring a tear to me.
This world has lost its glory, let's start a
brand new story now, my love.
Right now, there'll be no other time and I can
show you how, my love.
Talk in everlasting words, and dedicate them all
to me.
And I will give you all my life, I'm here if you
should call to me.
You think that I don't even mean a single word I
say.
It's only words, and words are all I have, to
take your heart away.
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Oh, yes -you needed me!
I'll see you that and give you my own Melissa take-off:
I've got a chrome-plated bike
Scrappers in the alley trying to tear it apart
I've got 'linkers crying from up above
and they got rust in their eyes, they got rust in their posts
But I have learned to leave no lock unlocked
And keep the wall against my bike
And this ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night
I got a two dollar tube
Frame pump in my pouch, and peel-off patches in my hair
I got bad intentions on the soles of my SPD's
With these red hot bearings and these chromium blues
And I will feel another linker`s wheel
And ride for miles and not look back
And this ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night
On my chrome-plated bike
Scrappers in the alley trying to tear it apart
I got 'linkers crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes, they got rust in their posts
And the only way I know where this month's mass will go
Is when I`m sleeping in Daley Plaza
And the ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night
And the night is black, as black as night
...
H3N3 said:James:
Smile an everlasting smile, a smile can bring you
near to me.
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Permalink Reply by wig [ isaac ] on
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all my friends that do scraping ( i have a lot of them) keep a working bike on the truck since ther trucks are such shit...
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Lookin' hella retarded...
He got that right!
Still, I think I like it ;)
H3N3 said:
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Because the wheels scrape on the forks and frame due to the painted aluminum foil in the spokes. It also has to do with the cars with spinners that are also popular in the Bay Area which are also called scrapers.
Scraper is something or someone who scrapes (i.e. "to scrape"). Scrapper is someone who picks up scrap metal (or sometimes scrapbookers are called scrappers) -with two p's. Like many other words in English how they are spelled changes the meaning and how they are pronounced. How strange is that? ;)
M.A.R.K. said:I never understood why they say scr-A-per(like ice scraper) and not scr-ah-per..
H3N3 said:
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