Superb stuff.
A few month back I took a broken iron to the dump and came back with a Kenwood pro-logic amp and speakers, totally mint and in perfect working order, and bizarrely they were the EXACT same models as I had bought 10 years previously. The original amp I had broken and binned about a year beforehand, but I still used the surround speakers.

A strangely comforting find.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:15, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

They don't normally let you take stuff from dumps

(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:18, Reply)

They let someone take you

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:21, Reply)

You let anyone take you

(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:21, Reply)

The trick is to arrive wearing only a thong and a smile
Other finds include a brand new Dyson DC01, the motor had gone, but the rest was mint. I took it home and cannibalised all the parts and made my own as good as new.

A full set of golf clubs and bag. Not the best you've ever seen, but for my woeful skills, more than enough.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:22, Reply)

My dad got a new bike from the dump a while ago.
He saw a bloke about to throw it into the skip and asked what was wrong with it, on the basis that it looked perfectly fine.
"Puncture," said the bloke.


People that stupid deserve to stay poor.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:24, Reply)

That's brilliant
By that logic I should have scrapped my car about five years ago
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:29, Reply)