na was only like about 3 quid lol rather get rid of the crap.

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I took down an old satellite dish from the front of my house the other day. I told my neighbour I'd leave it out on the pavement as people were always looking for scrap. He said he bet it would be gone within a couple of days, and I said what, it'll be gone by tonight.

The next time I went out the house, about two hours later, it was gone.

We put out two old calor gas heaters in our front garden one day and I completed a form, wrote a cheque for the council to come and collect them (about £11). I tucked the form and cheque in my bag so I could post it later in the day.

My husband rang me at lunch time and said how quick they had been - I hadn't even posted the form and cheque by then. We don't know who collected them but it saved us a bit of money

Scrap metal is alive and well. I always put metal waste out the front for a few days to see it it will go before taking it to the dump. Scrap has increased it's value several fold in the last year or two....
I was doing some renovation work indoors a couple of years ago putting in a new bathroom and a bit of work in the left. I found an old copper water tank in the loft (left by a previous owner) and I swapped out a length of lead piping for copper as part of the upgrade... I also reran some heating and moved a boiler (to gain space) and had some scrap copper to add into the mix... Bagged it all up and took it to a scrappy over North Acton, weighed it in and I was pleasantry supplied, kept me in beer money for a good Month.... Most of it was for the lead though....

Cant we ban this person ???

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Ooops! must have missed that one.

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When a crash seems inevitable, try to hit the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly and gently as possible.

I saw a little of Mr Ottaway's speech (to an almost deserted House) yesterday on the TV. It seems that his constituency ( Croydon west?) has the worst record for metal thefts in the UK, even the MP for Croydon central had suffered a loss when a plaque on his fathers grave had been stolen. He also related a story of someone who had taken their fridge outside to clean it and had it stolen when they left it unattended for a few minutes!

The most significant part of his proposals were to extend the cash-only licensing system to motor salvage yards (in addition to scrap yards). Lets hope it makes it through Parliament and even more important, that there are sufficient Police available when the bill becomes law in order to nick some of these villains

The offences will be punishable by huge fines (and or confiscation of assets) you can rest assured there will be enough police to sort it....

How can they implement a restriction on cash payments, impossible !

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Lets be careful out there !