Rant. Yeah I rarely rant but today I need to.

[dayna]

We picked up a freezer that was illegally dumped on a private neighborhood road and took it to the dump that accepts household appliances. What a <insert bad word> ordeal.

First some dude yelled at me because "I cut him off where he wanted to walk by backing up to the dumpster" so he could dump his mini fridge. I didn't see him, he was parked a long ways away. Not my fault he didn't think to back up to it!

Then after reading all the signs, about what can and can not be dumped, it said to push house hold appliances (stoves, fridges, freezers, dishwashers, dryers and washers) to the very back of the container and some jerk who works there ran out and started yelling at us that it was a freezer.... Uh yeah... I pointed at the sign, he got pissed off and yanked the freezer out of the container and threw it on the side of the container. What the heck? I still don't understand what I did wrong.....

I'm ready to go back to bed. I try to do something nice by picking up garbage on the side of the road and two jerks just yell at me. Nice.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Inverted thumb, fart sound.

 

[akane]

Here freezers have to go to a special facility that drains the freon out of them before they can be dropped off at the appliance pickup. You get charged for it. It's often more work than a lot of people want to go through. Helps fuel the tendency of people with farms to create a dump at the end of their land where they just leave old vehicles and appliances. 10 or so years ago and earlier it was also common to just dig a big pit on your property and throw all garbage in to it. When it gets full you shove the dirt back over and dig another one. All sorts of random stuff works it's way to the surface of old farm land. We used to find tons of bricks in the pasture of my grandma's house and then on the new property my horses kept getting various bits of metal stuck in their hooves that had worked it's way through the dirt.

 

[dayna]

Well the sign said "freezers"... So I assumed that the state does the freon themselves? Here our dumps are 100% free. We have no trash pickup on our Island.

I'm mostly just pissed that I got all dirty picking up someone elses problem, drove all the way to the dump when gas is so freaking expensive and then get complained at.

 

[skysthelimit]

That I totally understand. There was no reason for the person there to have a bad attitude. Besides, aren't they getting paid to be there?

 

[bobqdevon]

We have to pay $45 per ton of trash we haul to the dump, and they don't take any kind of electronics or appliances. I haven't had to dispose of any yet, so not sure what the procedures would be here.

Getting yelled at for doing something you didn't have to do? sucks.

 

[Schipperkesue]

Here old freezers are prized as livestock waterers!

 

[dayna]

Well, this was a chest freezer, rusted out on the side of the road. No livestock waterer in store for it.

I'm STILL pissed off about this. lol

 

[akane]

Usually when an appliance dies we are replacing it so we just have the delivering company take away the old one for free. My mom though manages government subsidized housing for low income and elderly. She goes through a lot of appliances and her maintenance workers handle most of it. The appliances just come on a semi in batches and are dropped off at her office where they have to be loaded as needed in to a truck. That leaves dlsposal of the old ones up to her.

 

[dayna]

The problem is that we live in a private neighborhood. Sounds more fancy than it is. It's an AG neighborhood, not gated or anything cool. lol

People DUMP stuff all the time. Mattresses, appliances, garbage, etc. And it's up to us as members of the community to clean it up.... So we do try, as this stuff tends to breed!

 

[grumpy]

Around here, scrappers would snatch that up in less than an hour.
I set defunct appliances alongside the curb and "POOF" they're gone!

Sorry about the screaming...the world's full of knuckle-heads.
Sometimes, they come in pairs.

grumpy.