I want to be on the TV show "Hoarders"...

[clerkkent]

so when they clean up the places, I can get dibs on the crap they throw away (especially if it a man's hoard). I watched a recent episode where they were in Orland , CA and there was an elderly gentleman who was getting 'compelled' to clean up his property. They brought in one entire full length dumpster just to handle the scrap metal, and based on some the quick scenes, it looked like half of the bin was bicycles and related things we could use to weld onto our bikes.

Last year, there was an episode for a guy in Santa Cruz, where they were 'compelling' him to whittle down his car collection, amongst all the other contraptions and knick knacks. They ended up crushing some specialty cars (cars that an aficionado might put to good use) instead of rehoming them. In act of karmic justice, the tractor trailer that was hauling away the crushed cars tipped over on the way out of the property.

I wonder how many junkyards and homebased stockpiles get wasted like this? What irks me the most is that often times the junkyards were there long before 'civilization' sprouted up around the yards, yet the people who move in next door then get offended and bothered and demand the yard get cleaned up. (insert private property discussion here)

 

[B607]

During WW2, especially after 1943, there were huge scrap drives in the US for the war effort. Nothing was sacred. It's a wonder that there are any prewar bikes left at all. The one good thing about it...for every bike that gets scrapped, the one that's left of that style is worth more.
By the way...A woman with tons of stuff is a hoarder. A man with tons of stuff is a collector. :wink: Gary

 

[Tychevelle]

By the way...A woman with tons of stuff is a hoarder. A man with tons of stuff is a collector. :wink: Gary

Haha +1 :lol:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

As I always say you an NEVER have too many bicycles, Just too few places to hide them.

 

[Meeba]

B607 wrote:
By the way...A woman with tons of stuff is a hoarder. A man with tons of stuff is a collector.

I am soooo stealing that

 

[partsguy]

so when they clean up the places, I can get dibs on the crap they throw away (especially if it a man's hoard). I watched a recent episode where they were in Orland , CA and there was an elderly gentleman who was getting 'compelled' to clean up his property. They brought in one entire full length dumpster just to handle the scrap metal, and based on some the quick scenes, it looked like half of the bin was bicycles and related things we could use to weld onto our bikes.

Last year, there was an episode for a guy in Santa Cruz, where they were 'compelling' him to whittle down his car collection, amongst all the other contraptions and knick knacks. They ended up crushing some specialty cars (cars that an aficionado might put to good use) instead of rehoming them. In act of karmic justice, the tractor trailer that was hauling away the crushed cars tipped over on the way out of the property.

I wonder how many junkyards and homebased stockpiles get wasted like this? What irks me the most is that often times the junkyards were there long before 'civilization' sprouted up around the yards, yet the people who move in next door then get offended and bothered and demand the yard get cleaned up. (insert private property discussion here)

Well, if the bikes didn't have any tanks or nice racks, or springers, I would not feel bad about it. It could have been a lot worse! As for the cars, if they were from the 70s or older, yea thats a good reason to cry. Post 1987...not so much.