legitamate rant?

Old... and I mean +50? year old galvanized trash can. Yes I know there are Rubbermaid ones and stuff, but there are a few critters that tear things apart on a Sunday night, then the garbage blows down the road. Crows, raccoons, coyotes, nasty $%^& eating dogs, no 4 LEGGED ANIMALS got into the metal can. This morning... the trash is still in the bag, no teeth marks, no claw marks... no metal can. Some $%^& eating 2 legged piece of trash stole the can for scrap! But was nice enough to place the trash bag carefully on the roadside... the F%^&*()_ loser!!
Now, how long befor he has enough (stolen) brass to come in the yard and start taking farm equipment and tractor parts? Will he put my ratchets back in the tray when he is done removing iron parts?
The last thief I shot at, many years ago, was a logger. Now I will have to spend Sunday nights till dawn Monday sticking a muzzle in beat up pickup trucks that probably burn more gas than the stuff they are stealing is worth. I thought iron was way down? Is this another mental disorder the state has to study?? .. as in, who's too spastic to own a gun? then figure who's too low life trashy to have a driving license????

I feel for you brother, just reading that upsets me!

Maybe their Rubbermaid can cracked and wouldn't hold trash and they wanted a good one. Probably bring it back when they move.

Time for a game camera & a new can. If they took the first one they will be back for the new one. Then it's your option how to deal with it. File charges or go TAKE it back.

Can't be more than a penny worth of metal in a trash can, so not likley taken by a scrapper unless they needed a container.
If yours was as old as you say and this is the first one you had taken then clearly not a big problem in your area.
Time to get a shinny new one and stencil your address or land location on it and be thankful that you don't have to resort to the same level to support yourself or your habits.
Never pleasant when someone invades your space, but at least it was only a trash can.

A tracking device on the bottom inside flange or if could be pried apart to fit something slick like that and out of sight would be interesting.

Tony if your neighbors are anything like mine - and the trash can was 50 years old - then more likely somebody thought it'd look "quaint" with some flowers planted in it or some other such nonsense.

I can't use the metal cans. The trash man or women (got to be corect) slams them so hard they even brake the plastic ones after a few months. Stan

the one that belongs to the place next door to our store blew across the road, and before we could get away from the phone/customers someone stopped in the middle of the road and loaded it up!

I think the PC term is "trash persons".
Zach

Cant be trash person because of the "son" Needs to be trash peoples. LOL

I think they are called 'Waste Removal Technicians' now.

I thought the term was "sanitation engineer"

Some of those yahoos get paid enough to where they should be having a 4 year degree to do it. I know of some garbage truck drivers that make $25 per hour.

I think it was stolen as a "collectible", as someone else posted. Old galvanized items are hot now.. I recently sold a rusty old galvanized bucket for 25 dollars..

Now that I have read this it got me thinking that my galvanized can is missing. Obviously an interstate gang at work here.

gosh, you guys have the same moral support as an undertaker... Davis, if this runned over not even round anymore thing is 'antique' or 'quaint' as JR said, then I give up on antique collecting myself, as it might be a contagious thing...
Gamecame? Yeah sure, they'd steal that too... tracking device? Like on Breaking Bad? If they found that, it would get torn apart incase there is copper or platinum in there.... a few 1000 of em really add up! Get a galvanized trash can full of tracking devices you could afford a better pickup!
OH! BTW, had to pay the taxes today, so went in the town hall. I told a clerk what went on...gosh she didn't know what to say... eyes bugged out, turned red, looked like she was going to cry.... I wanted to say 'so what's your husband's night job'???

Several years ago, the galvanized trash can at my dad's service garage disappeared. The true story is, the garbage men dented and damaged it every time they emptied it...then one day they decided that it, too, was now trash and tossed it into the packer without even emptying it.

Don't feel so bad. I've got a customer that caught a thief trying to steel a 5000 lb dropball with his skidsteer, with his kid watching. The guy stopped the thief by getting into the cab with him swinging a shop hammer. He probably would have beat the guy to a pulp but looked up and saw his kid watching from the top of a big rock. The cops let the guy load up his machine and leave, and the DA refused to do anything because there wasn't enough 'probable cause' that he was actually going to steal it. As it stands, and last I hear, they had taken him for close to $17,000 in scrap over the pasrt year or so, and that's just the mising items he has been able to track and knows what scrap yards they went to.

The good thing about the whole deal is the guy was so scared that he literally crapped his pants (had to excuse himself into the woods and stripped them off) when he saw someone coming into the cab with him swinging a hammer. Now, due to the hammer deal, as well as things that were said, in conversation at the time, in front of the thief ((((ie- alot of people are getting fed up with the authorities letting criminals go, and we've got keys to some big machines, and you'll never find a body 20 feet under))he has been spreading the word around. My customer was told by a lady the other day that the scrap thieves are now second guessing themselves as there have been a few over the past few years that disappeared, etc, etc. In other words his "reputation" has now got the locals scared so he hasn't lost anything else recently as a result.

I had a thief stealing diesel out of my tractors and my trail cam took his pic. The local sheriff said he knew this guy but didn't arrest him. He came back later and stole my trail cam. He returned about a week later and stole some more diesel and tore my barn door up and got a cordless drill, a 22 rifle and some more things. This time an arrest was made and I got my rifle back. He is in the Co. jail with a $60,000 bail. I have installed another cam with locking cable. Hope this works. Roy