Skip Rats

Montroseee

Recently got a skip in as we're doing a bit of home improvements. Basically, the amount of people that have come in (without asking might I add) and taken our unwanted items is astounding. None of these items would have any resale value at all - broken tv's, appliances, bikes etc. We have ended up getting two skips worth.

It was only there for three days and the same people (you know who) kept coming back, taking increasing liberty on our property, to the point where I found one of them in our back garden after he had hopped over the side gate. They also left all the stuff they had removed from the skip on the ground. Anyone ever had this problem? was great at first but ended in frustration.

PirateShampoo

One mans rubbish is another mans Gold.

Bipolar Joe

I cover unwanted things in Ebola, solves the problem and now people know to stay away.

listermint

So they are emptying your skip for you and freeing up more space...



rrriiggght.

Thatnastyboy

Hook up a car battery to the skip,

They'll only touch it once :pac:

I never understand why people have a problem with their stuff being taken after they've thrown it away.

dodderangler

They're like magpies
See something shiny and take it back to their nest

Montroseee

Deleted User wrote: »

I never understand why people have a problem with their stuff being taken after they've thrown it away.

Read the full thing, that's not what I had a problem with. They took advantage of us and started trespassing on their own terms.

Tabnabs

We had this too. Foreign skip rats were polite (asked if they could take stuff and put everything back after rumouring around) and arrived early each day to check for new items. Domestic skip rats pulled everything out and left it where it landed. They always went away frustrated because they turned up much later than the foreign skip rats.

Where there's muck there's brass and all that I guess.

MugMugs

listermint wrote: »

So they are emptying your skip for you and freeing up more space...



rrriiggght.

This sums it up nicely.

I wouldn't begrudge anybody who was taking away my rubbish free of charge and I can't see why you would nor can I understand why you'd call them Rats.

Rats are filthy vermin. These are people out to make use of what you're sending to land fill. Shame on you if you ask me

Wattle

I'd nip that in the bud OP or they'll be back for the skips too.

J Bourke

Id say its the fact that they jumped a gate to have a nose round the back is what hes more pissed about. Like flies to **** unfortunately

MugMugs

Montroseee wrote: »

Read the full thing, that's not what I had a problem with. They took advantage of us and started trespassing on their own terms.

Well then why tar them with the same brush, list all the items being taken and place value on the items being removed if your real issue was somebody trespassing?

And you edited your post.

Montroseee

J Bourke wrote: »

Id say its the fact that they jumped a gate to have a nose round the back is what hes more pissed about. Like flies to **** unfortunately

Thank you for reading the post in full, others can't seem to do it.

MugMugs

Montroseee wrote: »

Thank you for reading the post in full, others can't seem to do it.

You edited your post OP.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Montroseee wrote: »

It was only there for three days and the same people (you know who) kept coming back.

Ok I'll ask, who keeps coming back?.

hawkelady

MugMugs wrote: »

This sums it up nicely.

I wouldn't begrudge anybody who was taking away my rubbish free of charge and I can't see why you would nor can I understand why you'd call them Rats.

Rats are filthy vermin. These are people out to make use of what you're sending to land fill. Shame on you if you ask me

So it's ok to jump your side gate and have a poke around!!also it's ok to root around in your skip and throw on the ground the very stuff you put in the skip. Either you are very tolerant or you didn't fully comprehend the op ! These rats would take the eyes out of your head if ya weren't looking !!

Frank Black

What about the feckers that dump thier own stuff into your skip - usually during the nightime.

Ended up with some extra bits in my last skip - would have loved to catch them in the act, follow them back home and then return later to **** their stuff back into their front garden.

SEPT 23 1989

Margaret Mango Stepparent wrote: »

Ok I'll ask, who keeps coming back?.

The Jacobs

MugMugs

hawkelady wrote: »

So it's ok to jump your side gate and have a poke around!!also it's ok to root around in your skip and throw on the ground the very stuff you put in the skip. Either you are very tolerant or you didn't fully comprehend the op ! These rats would take the eyes out of your head if ya weren't looking !!

With respects, the OP was amended after my post.

harry Bailey esq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I never understand why people have a problem with their stuff being taken after they've thrown it away.

that's all well and good,but the op pointed out that people were rummaging and the stuff they didn't take was just being left in the garden,I've had this problem myself.I must admit though,i often root through skips and occasionally i dig up some little gems.its my dirty little secret:)

kylith

We had a skip recently and I told them to help themselves as long as they cleaned up afterward. It made loads of room to put more rubbish in. I think that legally once you've put something in the skip you've essentially declared it as rubbish and anyone who wants it can take it. I'm usually more worried about the feckers waiting for skips so they can throw their old crap in them at your expense.

Tabnabs

Frank Black wrote: »

What about the feckers that dump thier own stuff into your skip - usually during the nightime.

Ended up with some extra bits in my last skip - would have loved to catch them in the act, follow them back home and then return later to **** their stuff back into their front garden.

Had that too. Someone dumped their rubbish bags in our skip. I carefully opened the bags and found a bill with a name and address. Phoned the local litter warden, who was very helpful. I told him the bags were lying beside the skip and not in it (a very important detail in his eyes). He collected them and returned them to their rightful owner who lived nearby, along with a threat to fine him if he did it again.

Montroseee

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

that's all well and good,but the op pointed out that people were rummaging and the stuff they didn't take was just being left in the garden,I've had this problem myself.I must admit though,i often root through skips and occasionally i dig up some little gems.its my dirty little secret:)

It's absolutely ridiculous, came home one day to find stuff that had been left on the ground blown all over the front garden by the wind.

The Barefoot Pizza Thief

Margaret Mango Stepparent wrote: »

Ok I'll ask, who keeps coming back?.

Giant furniture carrying rats, apparently.

FTA69

They're taking anything and everything for the scrap value that's in it. The first thing many Roma gypsies in London do is buy a sh*t-heap van and then go driving around looking for any glint of metal. Even stuff that's worth pennies they'll take and stockpile before bringing it to the scrap yard. I've seen them rummage through brick and muck to retrieve a piece of aluminium a foot long. ( worth 20p max)

MugMugs

kylith wrote: »

I think that legally once you've put something in the skip you've essentially declared it as rubbish and anyone who wants it can take it.

No. When the skip company take possession of the skip and it's contents it's now fair game.

Trespassing however to take what you've left outside could still very well be seen as theft albeit, it would take a very small minded person to attempt to raise charges against somebody trying to salvage items from a skip.

I don't see an issue with it.

In fact, I recently removed pallets from a neighbours skip. I didn't trespass to do so but I didn't ask either. He was sending it to land fill, I was burning it for heat.

MIRMIR82

Rubbish thread is rubbish!

Montroseee

Frank Black wrote: »

What about the feckers that dump thier own stuff into your skip - usually during the nightime.

Ended up with some extra bits in my last skip - would have loved to catch them in the act, follow them back home and then return later to **** their stuff back into their front garden.

Thankfully we don't have that problem, must be a nightmare dealing with that.

LeBash

No issue with someone cleaning out the skip but hopping the wallsis a load of bollox

MurdyWurdy

Why were they hopping the walls to get in your back garden? Did they think you had a super secret skip in there with all the good stuff in it?

No problems with people taking stuff out of skips, happy to see things reused. It's people putting things in your skip that drives me mad, scabby feckers.

Also, if you have stuff in the skip you think someone might use I recommend advertising it on Freecycle. It's a great way to get rid of stuff you don't think you can sell but don't want to throw out. Some people are in genuine need as well and you're not sending stuff to a landfill (you'd be surprised what is advertised on there and what people want!).

Frank Black

Tabnabs wrote: »

Had that too. Someone dumped their rubbish bags in our skip. I carefully opened the bags and found a bill with a name and address. Phoned the local litter warden, who was very helpful. I told him the bags were lying beside the skip and not in it (a very important detail in his eyes). He collected them and returned them to their rightful owner who lived nearby, along with a threat to fine him if he did it again.

So much more mature than my 'strew it around their front garden' solution.

Ush1

In Toronto, people actually leave unwanted items out by the kerb for people to take it if they want. All sorts of mad stuff you see, toilet bowls etc...

MurdyWurdy

Ush1 wrote: »

In Toronto, people actually leave unwanted items out by the kerb for people to take it if they want. All sorts of mad stuff you see, toilet bowls etc...

They do it in New Zealand as well - there was a manky old couch on the street for about 6 weeks once before someone took it away. Every day I drove past there was a cat curled up on it lying in the sun. Kitty heaven

Montroseee

It's strange seeing people take this like TVs and bikes when you've told them they are irreparably damaged.

Irishcrx

Yeah some of them can be fine and others are just downright scum, the issue isn't taking items from the skip personally I wouldn't care less but jumping the wall in the back is a big no no , it's tresspasing and would make anyone feel uneasy , also if they are throwing stuff all over the ground and leaving them their it's hassle to have to keep putting it back in.

I was working for a company last year and we were throwing out a ton of old copper cable , two skip loads of it as we didn't use that type anymore , within ten minutes there was two vans down packed to the rim with all of it, ended up needing a quarter of a skip because they took the rest.

When they were leaving one of them hands me a business card and a tenner. Thanks I'll try not to spend it all in the sweet shop.

Freddy Smelly

chain an angry pitbull to the skip and see if they scavange then :P

syklops

Montroseee wrote: »

It's strange seeing people take this like TVs and bikes when you've told them they are irreparably damaged.

You say irreparably damaged but all I hear is challenge.

holystungun9

Thatnastyboy wrote: »

Hook up a car battery to the skip,

They'll only touch it once :pac:

*sees car battery - yoink!

kylith

Montroseee wrote: »

It's strange seeing people take this like TVs and bikes when you've told them they are irreparably damaged.

They're not taking them to use, they're stripping any wiring for the copper and selling it, and any other metal, on to be melted down.

gobnaitolunacy

Any copper in that skip, Boss...er...I mean OP?

Plazaman

Irishcrx wrote: »

Yeah some of them can be fine and others are just downright scum, the issue isn't taking items from the skip personally I wouldn't care less but jumping the wall in the back is a big no no , it's tresspasing and would make anyone feel uneasy , also if they are throwing stuff all over the ground and leaving them their it's hassle to have to keep putting it back in.

I was working for a company last year and we were throwing out a ton of old copper cable , two skip loads of it as we didn't use that type anymore , within ten minutes there was two vans down packed to the rim with all of it, ended up needing a quarter of a skip because they took the rest.

When they were leaving one of them hands me a business card and a tenner. Thanks I'll try not to spend it all in the sweet shop.

Crikey you lost out there, copper cable is worth a few bob, shoulda took it yourself.

I'd agreed that people putting stuff in is worse that taking stuff out. I remember be involved in running an event years ago on a beach and we had got a skip for rubbish. The next morning there was a fridge in it even though the skip was fairly inaccessible to get to.

I'm also reminded of THIS from One Foot In The Grave when Victor got a skip. Hahaha

discus

Deleted User wrote: »

I never understand why people have a problem with their stuff being taken after they've thrown it away.

Because when these skip rats take something, they try sell it. If they can't find a buyer, they throw it on the side of the road somewhere, making Dublin look like a tip heap. When it's left in a skip at least it is going to be put in a proper tip.

wolfpawnat

Ush1 wrote: »

In Toronto, people actually leave unwanted items out by the kerb for people to take it if they want. All sorts of mad stuff you see, toilet bowls etc...

We have a rule about that in my complex, leave anything usable outside of the bins, even if it is broken, you have until Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to collect it and it is in the rubbish then, TV stands, tables, chairs, you would nearly :eek: at what others are getting rid of, I myself never took anything, but I know a few of the neighbours did and I wouldn't blame them.