What's with disposal?

[Street Gerbil]

Folks, I really don't understand what's going on. There are piles of good/potentially good stuff lying in piles all over Auckland waiting for garbage collection. Last evening I looked at it out of curiosity and found among other things:
1) 2 Pentium II computers + truckload of cards - memory, scsi, etc + 5-6 CRT monitors.
2) Photocopier
3) Fax
4) A box of 80es records in a reasonably good condition
5) MS Sidewinder joystick
6) My favorite - a flexible keyboard.
All items appear in a good shape except that all of them appear deliberately sabotaged by cutting off the power/data leads.
What gives? This stuff should have gone to the charity, not to garbage!

[doc]

Folks, I really don't understand what's going on. There are piles of good/potentially good stuff lying in piles all over Auckland waiting for garbage collection. Last evening I looked at it out of curiosity and found among other things:
1) 2 Pentium II computers + truckload of cards - memory, scsi, etc + 5-6 CRT monitors.
2) Photocopier
3) Fax
4) A box of 80es records in a reasonably good condition
5) MS Sidewinder joystick
6) My favorite - a flexible keyboard.
All items appear in a good shape except that all of them appear deliberately sabotaged by cutting off the power/data leads.
What gives? This stuff should have gone to the charity, not to garbage!

Yipee I'm on my way to Paratai drive, if I don't fill the van I'll do Finns street on the way home.
Will be busy on Trademe for awhile might have to give The March Hare a miss.

[Ixion]

I scored a door with glass pane, latch set and key, some good paint brushes ,and some excellent carpet. Mrs Ixion got down on some crockery . There's heaps of good stuff out there.

[Bekki]

All items appear in a good shape except that all of them appear deliberately sabotaged by cutting off the power/data leads.
What gives? This stuff should have gone to the charity, not to garbage!

Last inorganic there was a guy going from pile to pile cutting off the power cords from all the electrical equipment.. I guess it's so that people don't salvage broken equipment, plug it in and have it blow up or shock someone.. ?

[Chisanga]

I thought that it was now technically against council by-laws to grab stuff put out for inorganic collections? Not that that will stop anybody... when i've been a postie around these times it's amazing at the amount of magpies out and about (and the amount of punctures i've got from discarded food processor blades hiding under grass )

[Street Gerbil]

What pisses me off is the sheer number of discarded slightly outdated but perfectly operational computers. You can't play Halo on it but it is perfect for internet browsing, word processing, and general studying.
Does every child in NZ have a computer? I don't think so.

[Motu]

I'm not interested in fiding computers in the inorganic - but I've hauled home a shit load of stuff from them ever since I could walk.Who would ever think of complaining about what people throw out? Better to say thank you.Some peoples lives depend on what other people throw away.

[klingon]

What pisses me off is the sheer number of discarded slightly outdated but perfectly operational computers. You can't play Halo on it but it is perfect for internet browsing, word processing, and general studying.
Does every child in NZ have a computer? I don't think so.

I agree! I can't believe that people put so little effort into finding new homes for this stuff instead of just throwing it out. On the other hand, I've been known to put some reasonably good stuff out because I know it will be snaffled up within a few minutes. I usually put a note on it saying whether it's in working order.

Last inorganic collection I got a steel brazier (no, not like Madonna's) and some wooden bookshelves.

[BUNGY]

Its amazing how quick things go. We had an old soda stream thingie but had no bottles so it was no use to us. Gone in the same day we put it out.

[Quartermile]

Yea in that Inorganic you see people up very early driving around in thier vans,'early bird gets the inorganic trash' as the saying go's

A few years ago had some guy take our computer only problem was I had pulled it apart to have a look in it and loosely put it back together

But it only ran windows 3.1 so........

[Steam]

In Dunedin the cops come out on Inorganic Day in the student area, to stop people from taking good stuff, because it's supposed to go to charity.
Maybe it was the cops. Or maybe it was Chubb or ADT or someone in uniform anyway.

[spookytooth]

cutting off the power leads = burn off the casing sell the copper