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Caganer
Feb 15, 2018
op did you know it's legal to pick up trash that's left outside? you may want to put up a sign like goodwill does that you claim this trash and dont want others taking it if you want to be able to press charges when you catch that dastardly roadrunner trash thief

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Manic Mailman
Jul 2, 2004
Have you thought of puling all your junk into a mountain and declaring yourself king of the trash mountain ?

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Caganer posted:

op did you know it's legal to pick up trash that's left outside? you may want to put up a sign like goodwill does that you claim this trash and dont want others taking it if you want to be able to press charges when you catch that dastardly roadrunner trash thief

I don't know a lot about Trash Law so this is a good point, I don't know if our pile legally qualifies as "abandoned" without explicitly saying it isn't. The collection point is also on private property which where I live is the only way you can nail folks for dumpster diving

BhindiBhaji Boogie
Aug 6, 2013

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
We have lots of amateur garbage men/meth heads kicking around in my area picking up scrap metal and stripping fixtures from abandoned houses - as king of the garbage men do they have to pay dues to you weekly or bi weekly?

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Smythe posted:

dig a hole and fill it with deadly punji sticks. camouflage it with leaves and underbrush

OP Don't forget to rub the secret ingredient on the sticks poop

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH




This, or set up a package bomb in some random thing that explodes when he tries to take it apart.

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house
another load secured inside the trash castle. nobody gonna steal these CRT tvs and air conditioner capacitors

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
Pee on it. Pee on everything. Stake your claim. Pee on the guy if you have to.

Return Of JimmyJars
Jun 24, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
OP : do you get all the gold and precious metals out and throw the rest in a lake?

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

like a cigarette should posted:

Pee on it. Pee on everything. Stake your claim. Pee on the guy if you have to.

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

OP : do you get all the gold and precious metals out and throw the rest in a lake?

We tried recovering that stuff ourselves and it was tedious and took time away from actual work. I have a little bottle of RAM gold and I gave it to my kid and told her it was pirate treasure

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

R.L. Stine posted:

another load secured inside the trash castle. nobody gonna steal these CRT tvs and air conditioner capacitors



Be honest. Are you holding a shotgun off-camera and waiting for someone, anyone, to so much as look at your piles of junk the wrong way?

Waterbed Wendy
Jan 29, 2009
I've analyzed the pictures and I've come to the conclusion that you are a squat man. How much broken poo poo do I win?

Sorryformybadjokes
Apr 21, 2004

I identify as a simian who pronounces the 'silent' letters in words.
Fallen Rib
a normal looking laptop but when u press the power button the laptop shoots a used tampon at the users face

Sorryformybadjokes
Apr 21, 2004

I identify as a simian who pronounces the 'silent' letters in words.
Fallen Rib
hook up a bunch of those caps and make a railgun then shoot the fucker with a big rear end nail

Razorwired
Dec 7, 2008

It's about to start!
Record yourself blowing a dude and then when the dude turns on his stolen iPod or w/e he'll see you with a big ol donger in your mouth. At which point you turn to the camera and say, "lol I made you watch gay porn. Rekt"

Relentless
Sep 22, 2007

It's a perfect day for some mayhem!


Expand your business to petsitting dogs.

Done.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Waterbed Wendy posted:

I've analyzed the pictures and I've come to the conclusion that you are a squat man. How much broken poo poo do I win?

I've analyzed the pictures and believe the distorted perspective is misleading and they actually have very long shins. I suspect there's an almost industry standard for the width of stitches in a pant leg of blue jeans. We could probably figure about estimate on tibia length based on the bend in the knee and number of stitches to further estimate total leg length and from there assume the torso, head, foot proportions.

I'm guessing they're slightly over 6', though.

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Waterbed Wendy posted:

I've analyzed the pictures and I've come to the conclusion that you are a squat man. How much broken poo poo do I win?

I'm 5'10 and that's AVERAGE HEIGHT!!! OK??

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

It is oft said "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," OP. Have you considered accompanying him for some theft of your own?

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

symbolic posted:

It is oft said "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," OP. Have you considered accompanying him for some theft of your own?

This is going to turn out like that SVU episode where Stabler essentially encourages a guy to commit crimes.

edit: Follow him home, siphon gas out of his car at night that is equal in amount to the value of the property he took.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
yeah just be a cop, then you can do whatever you want

Waterbed Wendy
Jan 29, 2009

R.L. Stine posted:

I'm 5'10 and that's AVERAGE HEIGHT!!! OK??

Maybe you can scooby-doo the thief and like... project your very average length body onto a large screen and then there's some fog machines for spooky ambiance alongside a thunder sound effect from a speaker. Tell them they be cursed if they touch yer treasure and that you are the ghost of Captain Goode Height, Scourge of the 177 Seas.

I bet that guy'd be all like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!"

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
Better yet, take advantage of your average size. You're just a regular person, you fit right and and blend in with a crowd. Use that to slowly get closer and closer to them using various disguises to hide your true identity as you track them through the stolen recyclables underworld.

Then you realize they know exactly what to steal, when you have it, how to avoid getting caught by the cameras that they somehow know won't identify them.... You review some of footage and you realize they're of average height, too. TOO average of a height. They also have the same shoes as you...

You can't account for your activities during the hours you sleep. The strange times where people bump into you and for a moment they mistake you for someone else.

drat it, you've been the thief the whole time! It was the perfect crime!

Infinite Karma
Oct 23, 2004
Good as dead





JediTalentAgent posted:

Better yet, take advantage of your average size. You're just a regular person, you fit right and and blend in with a crowd. Use that to slowly get closer and closer to them using various disguises to hide your true identity as you track them through the stolen recyclables underworld.

Then you realize they know exactly what to steal, when you have it, how to avoid getting caught by the cameras that they somehow know won't identify them.... You review some of footage and you realize they're of average height, too. TOO average of a height. They also have the same shoes as you...

You can't account for your activities during the hours you sleep. The strange times where people bump into you and for a moment they mistake you for someone else.

drat it, you've been the thief the whole time! It was the perfect crime!
drat, you could be a screenwriter with those chops. What should we call it? Trash club?

Johnny-on-the-Spot
Apr 17, 2015

That feeling when he opens
the door for you
Get one of those gelatinous cubes that dissolves adventurers, once you get enough bone sets hire a wizard to reanimate them. Start locking your trash in treasure chest but also get some mimics.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Infinite Karma posted:

drat, you could be a screenwriter with those chops. What should we call it? Trash club?

Recyc Club

First rule of Recyc Club: Reduce.
Second Rule of Recyc Club: Reuse.
Third Rule of Recyc Club: REDUCE.
Fourth Rule of Recyc Club, Recycle.
Fifth Rule of Recyc Club: If it's a CRT, Tube TV, Ink Jet Printer, WE WILL NOT ACCEPT IT. Do NOT let them take it out of their car!
Sixth Rule of Recyc Club: REDUCE! We don't need so much consumer crap in our lives! How many times do I have to repeat this to get it through your skulls!?

JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Apr 25, 2018

Return Of JimmyJars
Jun 24, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

R.L. Stine posted:

We tried recovering that stuff ourselves and it was tedious and took time away from actual work. I have a little bottle of RAM gold and I gave it to my kid and told her it was pirate treasure

What do you do with all the junk? I can't imagine shipping a container full of 27" JVC tube tvs anywhere is profitable

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k
Have you thought of missle turrets to protect your precious horde op? It works in star craft o think.

Soylent Yellow
Nov 5, 2010

yospos
Start recycling obsolete medical devices. I'm sure the problem will sort itself out pretty soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

What do you do with all the junk? I can't imagine shipping a container full of 27" JVC tube tvs anywhere is profitable

The government hauls it away where it's all dumped onto the floor somewhere and I'm assuming inmates or children are hired to pick through it and remove boards and anything else containing valuable metal. Everything else rots in a dump I'm sure. I read they've got warehouses full of lead glass from old tvs that they can't do anything with. I get paid per ton and not the value of the items so I happily toss 300lb trinitrons in there

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
Catch this guy and drug him. Put him through an elaborate death trap for survival made out of junk. Taunt him through the ordeal.

"So, you want to give still useful items a second chance at life? We're very much alike in that way. I want to give PEOPLE a second chance at life, if they earn it... I've built for you a series of death traps; recycled them, in my own special way. In the ironic twist, the very items that you tried to take from this place to improve your livelihood are now the ones you'll have to escape from in order to live!"

ReSawcle

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


R.L. Stine posted:

I'm 5'10 and that's AVERAGE HEIGHT!!! OK??

I thought it was 4'. This is very unsettling

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008
Leave a freshly baked pie on the windowsill of your shop so he will be torn between stealing the pie and stealing the broken TVs.

I’m not sure how this will help I guess he will probably just take both you could put laxatives in the pie or something

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


Is there no fence? Barbed wire?

you could try to intentionally make one spot look easy to break in - maybe set up a fence with a gap, or barbed wire along the top everywhere except there - so that the person/people use that spot, then you can move your camera closer there to get a good image of their face.

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005
Turn your place of work into a Halloween fun house where skeletons pop up and lights flash, and then stream for our entertainment.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

R.L. Stine posted:

The government hauls it away where it's all dumped onto the floor somewhere and I'm assuming inmates or children are hired to pick through it and remove boards and anything else containing valuable metal. Everything else rots in a dump I'm sure. I read they've got warehouses full of lead glass from old tvs that they can't do anything with. I get paid per ton and not the value of the items so I happily toss 300lb trinitrons in there

how much do they pay you per ton? We havea guy who comes by about twice a year to haul off all our e-waste usually just a gently caress ton of printers, but like he does it for free and always kinda wondered how profitable it was for him

Nicodemus Dumps
Jan 9, 2006

Just chillin' in the sink

Doctor Dogballs posted:

Is there no fence? Barbed wire?

you could try to intentionally make one spot look easy to break in - maybe set up a fence with a gap, or barbed wire along the top everywhere except there - so that the person/people use that spot, then you can move your camera closer there to get a good image of their face.

I was following you until you mentioned using a camera to get a picture instead of just using a boxing glove on a precariously coiled spring to teach a lesson.

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
just gets some buddies to hang out there late with you and beat the poo poo out of him

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R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Nooner posted:

how much do they pay you per ton? We havea guy who comes by about twice a year to haul off all our e-waste usually just a gently caress ton of printers, but like he does it for free and always kinda wondered how profitable it was for him

I think like $150 (Canadian) per ton. One of our last ones was about 5 tons. Lately we've been getting the container switched out once a month but now that winter's over they'll start filling up fast

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