File this one under "WTF?!"
 

So I have this 25-year-old Zenith console TV that's been stashed in the garage that I finally put out to the curb for garbage collection in the morning.

A dude in a truck drops by and asks if it still works, and if he could take it. I told him it still works, and he was welcome to it. His truck was full of junk at the time, but he says he'll be back shortly for it. He leaves.

While he's gone, I ran an extension cord out to it, plugged it in and made sure it was in fact still working. No problem. Lights up right away. I unplugged it and put away the extension.

An hour later he comes around again - so I go outside and he's looking the TV over. BUT NOW ITS MISSING THE POWER CORD!

He explains that just as he was pulling on to the street, he sees someone in a black pickup truck drive up, jump out, cut the cord, leap back into the truck (with the cord) and takes off.

WTF?!

Luckily they left about an inch sticking out of the back of the TV, and the guy says he can easily splice a new power cord on, no problem.

He loads the TV, thanks me...and takes off.


What the fuck is with people these days? Sure, its a junker TV at the curb.

BUT STOPPING BY TO CUT OFF A POWER CORD?

This world just keep getting stranger by the hour.

It's a common thing for people to try to make you feel powerless.

LOL. That's pretty funny...

An aside, you should not throw away TVs like that. Bad for the environment. :-)

Ok - properly filed...

Copper theft perhaps?

Ummm ya lol thats a weird one for sure.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Geez, what the heck would they want that for?

That's exactly what it is

they need the metals inside

god damn people will do anything now

no other reason, copper is what close to 4 bucks a pound.

great story, i though you were going have some homeless out in font of yur yard watchingTV

Damn people are sure getting desperate for a couple bucks

If so...its a damn tedious way to make a buck. The cord was maybe 36-inches long.

as old as that tv is POSSIBLE the power cord was made with silver or a silver alloy, silver is a MUCH better conductor than copper and was sometimes used in high end electronics....just a possibility but i think that would be more the case with 40 or so year old TVs

its pretty common here in Georgia. Hell some guys actually stripped an entire radio station tower of all the copper and put the place off the air for a day or two. There have been cases where entire subdivisions come home to find the copper pipes from their AC units cut clean from the unit and the house.

Said power cord will be used in a murder that is high profile. You will be charged with that until the guy that took the tv can be located to verify your story.

or they could could have done it for no other reason than to just be jerks....

Oh man.. oh.. man.. the pun.. it STINGS IT STINGS.

I dunno, if I dug through trash for parts, I'd probably take a power cable to stick onto a lamp, or something.

two words
people suck

Interesting - however the TV wasn't quite that old, bought it new in '86.

According to http://www.scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/

The following is a a summary of scrap metal recycling prices in Canada. Prices are based on spot market prices and two prices are given - less then truck load and full truck load. Prices are in Canadian Dollars per pound (lb)

Old Mixed Aluminium 0.34 0.44 lbs CND
Old Yellow Brass 1.08 1.79 lbs CND
No.2 Scrap Copper 2.71 2.87 lbs CND
Mixed Lead 0.39 0.64 lbs CND
Nickel Scrap 6.18 8.24 lbs CND
No.2 Steel 369.73 462.17 ton CND
Stainless Scrap 0.67 0.89 lbs CND
Old Mixed Zinc Scrap 0.25 0.51 lbs CND
Car Bodies 77.03 128.38 ton CND
Aluminum Wheels 0.68 0.89 lbs CND
Battery Scrap 0.10 0.17 lbs CND
Catalytic Converters 28.27 47.07 each CND

Nicely played sir. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

nyuk, nyuk

Ok, I laughed :1orglaugh