Theft?

[SeaCat]

A while back a guy I did a job for gave me a nice TV. A 27 inch HD. (No not one of those skinny ones you can hang on the wall.) The sound quality on this TV was much better than on my TV so I swapped them out. My old TV sat in the back room unused even though it worked just fine.

This afternoon I got tired of tripping over the damned thing so I moved it out to the side of the road.

Soon after I was working out in the yard when a guy pulls up in a Pick Up. He saw me look over at him and took off. A short time later I saw the same guy come walking down the road. He stopped by the TV and started looking it over. I started towards him to tell him to go ahead and take it when he saw me and took off again.

I decided to see just how badly this guy wanted the TV. (Hey it was a slow day.) I went inside and waited by the door while watching. After a couple of minutes here he came again so I opened the door and stepped out. He got a glimpse of me and took off again.

This went on for several more episodes until I finally decided to let him have the damned thing. I waited and watched as he came back around the corner and stopped his truck next to the TV. He hopped ut, looked around quickly then struggled to pick up the TV and put it in the back. Off he went as I stood there shaking my head.

I guess he thought he was stealing the TV. (If he had let me walk over to him I would have helped him lift the damned thing into the back of his truck.)

Cat

This does give me an idea on how to really play with someones mind.

 

[Weird Harold]

Several years ago, I had my main TV go completely tits up. I bought a new one and set the old one on the patio while I set up the new one. By the time I had the new TV configured and figured out, someone had saved me the trouble of taking the old one to the dumpster.

 

[mynameisben]

Several years ago, I had my main TV go completely tits up. I bought a new one and set the old one on the patio while I set up the new one. By the time I had the new TV configured and figured out, someone had saved me the trouble of taking the old one to the dumpster.

I wonder if somebody would save me the disposal fees if I left my wife curbside when she goes tits up.

 

[Handley_Page]

I had a Philips VCR, which, typically, went tits up. I was instructed to send it back to Philips, so I put it in its original box, stuck labels all over it and chucked it in the local Post Office.

It never arrived and I claimed on the insurance.

I really would love to have seen the look on the guy's face when he tried to get it going. . . . . .

 

[O2]

Reminds me of work years ago.....

I used to service and install water heaters. Had one that I was replacing and left the bad one near my truck while I installed the good one.

Came back out after installing and the old one was gone.....hope they didn't mind the leak

 

[R. Richard]

This is a repost, but seems appropriate.

Sometime back, there was a furniture store that offered a 'trade in' on your old couch, when you bought a new couch. The problem was that the store really couldn't afford to pay someone to haul the old couch away, after the trade in. What the owner did was to have his employees carry the trade in couch out back behind the store. They would then more or less cover the couch with empty boxes, cardboard, whatever. Each night, someone would come by and steal the couch.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

This is a repost, but seems appropriate.

Sometime back, there was a furniture store that offered a 'trade in' on your old couch, when you bought a new couch. The problem was that the store really couldn't afford to pay someone to haul the old couch away, after the trade in. What the owner did was to have his employees carry the trade in couch out back behind the store. They would then more or less cover the couch with empty boxes, cardboard, whatever. Each night, someone would come by and steal the couch.

Please! The term is "recycle the couch"!


ROFLMAO

 

[Katyusha]

Gotta love people, huh? There was one time we decided to get rid of a whole bunch of old furniture, lamps, and stuff that was in the garage, and because most of it was moth-eaten, rat-eaten, or just plain broken we couldn't do a yard sale. So we put it all out on the curb. Later that evening we're sitting on the front step relaxing and chatting and this guy pulls up in a truck, and without either a word or a glance, starts loading the stuff into it. Right in front of us! Obviously we didn't care that he was taking it, just the way he did it, without so much as a glance at us, was hi-larious. We were snickering as quietly as we could until he was gone and then we busted up laughing.

 

[Katyusha]

This is a repost, but seems appropriate.

Sometime back, there was a furniture store that offered a 'trade in' on your old couch, when you bought a new couch. The problem was that the store really couldn't afford to pay someone to haul the old couch away, after the trade in. What the owner did was to have his employees carry the trade in couch out back behind the store. They would then more or less cover the couch with empty boxes, cardboard, whatever. Each night, someone would come by and steal the couch.

BWAHAHAHA!! That's awesome.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Whenever I want to discard something too large or beat up to give to the Goodwill, I just put a sign on it "Free to a Good Home". Sometimes I don't even get back into the house before it disappears!