Hard rubbish 

 Wednesday 28 February 2007, 10:17 pm    The Editor
 Categories: Freaks, Melbourne   Tags:

The annual hard rubbish collection is always a bit of a laugh. In the days leading up to the collection date people place their cubic metre of crap on the footpath and then you watch those piles of junk slowly shrink as freaks roam the streets and pilfer whatever they can see. I was walking home from work yesterday and watched an old lady select the choicest (read: least bad) lengths of bamboo from a pile of broken, damp and rotting furniture. Ten minutes later I saw a young man with dreadlocks take a bent and rusty bike wheel from out the front of a house with a look of triumph on his face.

Here at GrodsHQ we didn’t have much to put out. A broken pedestal fan, a generic Van Gogh print in a cheap and nasty frame, and the bird hutch I built four months ago for the adopted bird just before it pissed off without a word of thanks for my efforts.

The picture was gone within 20 minutes. No real surprises there. But this evening I’m in the front room when a white van pulls up out the front of our house and a dirty and nervous looking man gets out. He walks purposefully up to our hard rubbish pile and takes the disintegrating bird hutch as if he’d been scoping it out for days. Placing it carefully in the back of the van he pauses momentarily to acknowledge his handiwork before driving off.

People are freaks.

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  1.  Gravatar Fang (Thursday 1 March 2007, 1:06 am) # 

    Apologies for being off topic, but In case you don’t know, Lachlan has some stiff competition on youtube:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=-KpS_DVLodc

    He has already had 60+ hits.


  2.  Gravatar Iain Hall (Thursday 1 March 2007, 12:32 pm) # 

    I would have thought Scott, that as a lefty, you would be a staunch supporter of people reusing things that are no longer needed by others.
    It seems instead you are showing your arrogance and elitism once again.


  3.  Gravatar The Editor (Thursday 1 March 2007, 4:51 pm) # 

    You sure drove a long way from Queensland just to pick up a broken old bird hutch, Iain.


  4.  Gravatar Bridgit Gread (Thursday 1 March 2007, 5:01 pm) # 

    He’s building a car and needs the parts


  5.  Gravatar billybob (Thursday 1 March 2007, 5:27 pm) # 

    Did the man realise that the love used to build the hutch doesn’t come with the mould?

    PS I’m putting out a crappy old monitor that I got given 6 months ago and never used!


  6.  Gravatar The Editor (Thursday 1 March 2007, 5:30 pm) # 

    You heartless bastard, BB! That monitor I gave you had sentimental value. And it had sentimental value for Goobermetrics before he gave it to me.

    Isn’t it sad that we all live on Goober’s techo hand-me-downs.

    ps/- Why don’t you just swap email addresses with Iain to arrange a pick up?


  7.  Gravatar Ann (Thursday 1 March 2007, 9:28 pm) # 

    We ‘freaks’ up here in Brisbane put out our junk and watched it whittled away by other ‘freaks’.
    Driving around I sort of kept an eye out for large plant pots to nick. Bingo! I stopped to grab a big pot, then realised it was full of stuff. Because I was feeling a bit embarrassed I just grabbed the lot. So now I have a big plant pot and 4 garden gnomes (they’re faded gnomes but I rather like them.) A friend chanced to come by this arv with plants for the pot.
    It’s all good.


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