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Old 10-11-2011, 02:04 PM   #410
JAG
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Originally Posted by Suicane75 View Post
Scrap Metal dudes are modern day pirates. My neighbor lives off of it. He leaves before sunrise each morning and comes back with 2 or 3 hauls a day, sometimes with stuff that I'd swear he had to have stolen. Brand new bikes, patio furniture, brand new looking shit. They usually break it down and bring it in themselves but two or 3 times a year they have a giant industrial dumpster delivered that they fill easily. Ruthless buggers they are.

There were 10 people arrested for a ring involving scrapping like this in the Twin Cities a month back. They towed people's cars and had then crushed for scrap metal (pennies on the dollar for what the cars were worth) the same day.
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