BlockBuster Dumpster !

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:09 pm

Water actually has fairly high resistance, contrary to common beliefs. I'd still think that the water would've shorted the laptop's components though. I guess because there was so much water, it couldn't direct enough power to any one point to kill it.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:05 pm

salt water has salt in it, isn't salt highly corrosive?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:20 pm

I'm guessing that it was a fresh water lake.

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:41 pm

Do any of you guys watch topgear? Well anyways they took a toyota truck beat it up crashed it did all kinds of stuff to it. Then they put it on top of a building that they were demolishing with explosives and then had their mechanic(who was only allowed to use hand tools and no replacing parts) work on it a little and it started. Amazing.

This dumpster diving reminds me of my friend he used to go to the dump before they turned it ino a land fill and get all kinds of stuff. He found like 16 nirvana books all in mint condition. He found toys skateboards magazines. Games. I'm surprised what people throw away arent you?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:32 pm

It's amazing how dumpster divers have changed over the years. When my grandfather was working, years and years ago, the only people going through garbage were garbage men, and they were taking used peanut butter home, because they couldn't afford enough food for their familys'.

electromaster64 · Post by **electromaster64** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:13 am

Even though I thought didn't like him that much I am the dumpster Merovingian and I get all sorts of free stuff. (I started painting buildings in highschool and just kept the maintenance/janitorial job because I could work so many hours and it be flexible around my school schedule.) But I have worked at a school, an office complex, several churches and I get all sorts of stuff, no video games though. I may get this massive 20" CRT monitor on Wedensday

I just have to ask for it. I get a lot of hard drives from old computers, and computers when I want them. One of my friends worked at a school and they got new computers so they took the old computer lab and threw it into the dumpster he was telling me how much fun it was to smash everything and I almost choked him because we could have made a ton of money selling the stuff on ebay (not to mention I cannot stand it when people are wasteful and throw away working stuff).

Post by **benheck** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:10 pm

I worked at a Funcoland 10 years ago (now called Gamestop) and I got a lot of free NES's because people would bring them in to sell, they never worked, so we'd just buy the games and they'd leave the NES anyway. Simple pin method (as in my book, actually where the idea came from) and boom - fixed. I gave them to friends.

The management frowned on it but sometimes I could even get away with giving someone a buck for a game that they'd only get .50 for, but we'd resell for 5. Evil, I know.

God that was a fun job... I can still smell the weird-smelling window cleaner fluid we had. It wasn't BAD, just, unusual. It was one of those weird isolated smells you don't often come across, much like the Disneyworld smell or "cars with AC that smells like jet AC" smell.

I actually got my couch via trash - nothing wrong with it, but in college towns people throw junk out onto the curb instead of bothering to move it.

I don't know if any of you live in central Wisconsin but there's this place called DeLany's just west of Sauk City, right near the Badger Ammunition Plant. Anyways it's a cross between a liquidator store, junkyard, welding shop and army surplus store. Pretty interesting, good place to get movie props!

trogdorian1 · Post by **trogdorian1** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:57 pm

hrmm... i wonder if i could find a few old recipts with all the credit card information on em.....hrnmmmm........ i could afford that new highpowered iMac that is better than any other computer that could ever be afforded.........yes.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:52 am

You can(or use social engineering), but you better know what you're doing, because unless you hide your IP well, and know how to set up secret deliveries, they'll catch you.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:53 pm

I just went bike riding and beside some dead deer, a broken treadmill, beer bottles and other misc junk, lying on the side of the road I found... A FIRE EXTENGUISHER!

I have no clue why I picked it up, other than it's pretty darn shiny

It's made out of shiny stainless steel (all silver, no red) so there was no rust. Oh yeah it's a water extenguisher (extenguishes with water, not foam). Now I just have to figure out something to do with it. I wonder if I could install a hand pump and make some kinda crazy watergun.

Technically it's not a dumpdter fins, but it's close enough.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:57 pm

2 words:
jet propulsion.
Make a hovercraft thing and use it as foward force.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:44 pm

Thta would make on ehell of a Super Soaker if you put a hose and a nozzle on it.

While not exactly a dumpster find, my dad filled the back of his pickup truck with heavy copper wire, pulled from an old manufacturing building. We bring it to a recycling place in town for 30 cents a pound. (and the suspension on the Ford Ranger was more than half sunken down.

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<b>$$$$$$$$$</b>

Ian_B · Post by **Ian_B** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:50 pm

Before you take it apart does it look old ? if so see if any antique shops would give you any $ for it or ebay maybe?

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:55 pm

My dad gets loads of useless telecomunications stuff from his work all the time. One time he brought home a work bench perfect for electronic projects. He gets some cool stuff sometimes. After so long they get rid of their plasma monitors for new ones and we might just have a chance to get one. *prays*

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:59 pm

I worked at a Funcoland 10 years ago (now called Gamestop) and I got a lot of free NES's because people would bring them in to sell, they never worked, so we'd just buy the games and they'd leave the NES anyway.

those were the days, the funcoland near me is still called funcoland but im real disapointed with its decline in appreciation for classic games, i remember when you could walk into a funcoland and they would have everything from NES to DC hooked up and able to test and they would have catalogs for trade in values and the people would alwasy ask, do you wanna cleaning kit with that,
ahhhhhh those were the days,

i only find old gameinformers and other gaming magazines in dumpsters, nothing to special, o and once i found a VHS that had all the games coming out in the next year or so previews