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$30 worth of cans, $15 worth of gas, $150 worth of traffic tickets. Makes sense to me.
Hey, they’re not crushed!
they will be when they fall off into traffic, or during the accident.
Depending on location, they read the barcode off the can in order to redeem it. Store brand cans are only redeemed by the stores themselves unless you go to redemption centers (here), whereas when I was in another state, they took them by the pound, and it didn’t matter that they were crushed. All that matters is that they be able to read the barcodes.
(Trying to reply to One Small Step but it won’t let me)
Not following you on bar codes. Where I live, you take the bag(s) full of cans to whatever place is offering the best per-pound rate, they hang it on a hook-scale, and the weightXrate is what you get in return. They don’t even take them out of the bag. (Which always makes me wonder if they’ve jimmied the scales to account for people who’d take the time and effort to put a few cans filled with sand in the middle to add some weight.)
There are places that you’d have to SCAN all those cans, one by one, to get the cash-for-cans money??? That’d take all damn day!
actually here in finland we have bottle/can recycling machines in every grocerystore wich gives you refund in a form of a receipt you cash at the checkout for every single bottle as long as the barcode is readable. we get 15 eurocents for aluminum cans, 10 eurocents for glass bottles, 20 eurocents for 0,5 litre plastic soda bottles and 40 cents for a 1,5 or 2 litre sodabottle.
here in finland we have bottle/can recycling machines in every grocerystore wich gives you refund in a form of a receipt you cash at the checkout for every single bottle as long as the barcode is readable. we get 15 eurocents for aluminum cans, 10 eurocents for glass bottles, 20 eurocents for 0,5 litre plastic soda bottles and 40 cents for a 1,5 or 2 litre sodabottle.
I’m as surprised as you are – that truck doesn’t seem like it’s strong enough to hold up all that weight.
They *are* empty cans…
Should I be worried that I found nothing wrong with that picture? That’s a daily ocurrence around here
haha, it thought it was hilarious,
and i didn’t find much a problem either…
i’m not a fan of safety freaks.
Looks like someone has been watching too many Seinfield reruns…
1) Bonus points for taking the photo from the driver’s side while moving
2) Let me guess – this truck is on the way to Michigan to take advantage of the 10 cent deposit return?
And given the now downright horrific aerodynamics of what is already a gas-guzzler, use twice the amount returned for the cans in fuel costs.
They should’ve learned their lesson from Seinfeld: the only way to make money at that scam is to make use of a government vehicle.
A gas guzzler? It’s a four cylinder pickup. It gets better gas mileage than most sedans.
He’s going to Detroit MI to buy a house with the empties.
Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day . . .
That’s exactly what I was thinking! Now I’ll have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day.
Ev’ry beer that was drunk, Ev’ry fizzy fruit beverage,
He piled them up high, using bungees and leverage.
Pop cans! and Heine-cans! Rollin Rock! Busch!
Imported nectar and domestic slush!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then, this guy, for a buck,
Drove a mountain of bags down the road on his truck.
WOW!…
I don’t think I’d could pile that many bags on top of my truck if I tried. How did he do it ?!
Gaffer tape, tiedown straps and ignorance.
It helps when you don’t know it can’t be done. Initially.
It looks like rope and HUGE bags… I guess doing it all in one trip saves gas. That way, he has enough money left to pay the ticket he’s going to get.
If they’re all not crushed that’s probably several hundred dollars worth of cans. I had cans piling up in the basement. Eventually, I told the kids that they could split the money if they helped me get them crushed and carried to the recycling center. My jaw dropped as the tally crept up to almost $100! We had, probably, a third as many cans as this. But… the price per pound was higher then, too.
I once took 13 contractor bags of crushed cans to be recycled. It added up to about $75! I not only recycled my own, but one of my best friend’s too because she was just going to toss hers. It was no problem for me to store it since I lived on a farm and had the barn space to do it. Where I live now, they have deposits on cans and now, plastic drink bottles. It still amazes me that people throw their cans and bottles out the window. I can’t afford to toss 5¢ out the window like that.
I pay to have the recycling picked up curbside. (Or, I’m haunted by visions of Al Gore dressed as a baby seal.) I hold the cans out and take them in for cash once a year. That pays for having the rest picked up.
I was thinking that myself. Two 30 gallon bags of cans (uncrushed, and one was mostly 2 liter bottles) in NY (5 cent deposit) were around $10-$12 for me. So I could see that all as coming out to around $125 or more
Redeeming those cans should about cover the gas.
I vaguely recall an article about a guy who lived in New York City and made $100K a year (late-90s dollars) from recycling aluminum cans. There was a picture of him pulling a train of shopping carts stacked up with piles of bags three or four times his height.
He’d have to collect this many cans almost every day at today’s prices! Maybe if he lived near a college campus…
Now THAT’s what you call recycling!
At least he’s safe if something falls from the sky…
He got the contract to clean out this house: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=268346
Wha?
How?
How could someone…
I’m at a loss for words. That’s insane.
“I’m at a loss for words. ”
Time to start expanding your vocabulary then, if you plan on commenting here more often.
“That’s insane.”
A good few things on this site could classify as insane. Others even as stark raving bonkers, or lunacy multiplied by mad multiplied by totally gaga. This should not surprise anyone here.
Not a kludge at all, as the truck has not been converted into a can-hauling device. It b>is/b>, however, an awful lot of cans-and for that the picture is remarkable.
The only puzzler for me is where they got bags that big. Perhaps make them, somehow?
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Wait, wait…if they “made” bags like this to haul cans, wouldn’t that count as a kludge?
Well, keeping those bags filled with cans (not a structurally very sound load, and creating a *lot* of drag) tied down is a feat in itself.
And I was wondering about the bags too. Maybe just large sheets of polyethene, folded over and duct-taped shut?
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It’s . . . the TRUCK! [Kramer]
With only 3 big black garbage bag I got 17$ at 5 cents each can
This guy will probably make 250$+ O_O
I think there could easily be 500 cans in each bag. If it were Michigan it has got to be at least $700 in there.
The first step to overcoming an addiction is admitting that you have one.
Where we are going… we don’t need rear visibility.
Wow, thats great for the environment, but it’s not as economical as everyone might think, by the time you get to the destination with all the weight and the fact the load makes a giant sail, the money you gain from the cans will pay for the gas….and besides imagine how much this guy had to drink to get all those cans. Makes me pee just looking at it!
well if he is going with the wind he could just kick it into nutral and let her go
@ Fixit
You just can’t please people sometimes can you? Look at it- look at all those cans. Gas emissions or not, that guy is doing a damn good thing for the enviroment. How is it any worse than a bunch of different people driving different cars unloading the same amount?
And why are you acting like a truck needs to be refilled every time you drive it? My dad owned a truck and for half a year after I got into an accident I got to ride in it shotgun and it gets pretty damn decent MPG. As in we could drive a few hundred miles and oh god we didn’t have to refill up every 20 miles.
And as it’s been said all those cans would amount to very little real weight.
You seem to not have quite grasped the principles of physics. It’s not the cargo’s weight (which as has been expanded on a few times already, isn’t all that much) that would add to the truck’s gas consumption here, but the drag, resulting from more than doubling the truck’s front cross-sectional area.
And with a big enough tank and short enough trips, you can surely manage to make two trips between fill-ups. Maybe even three.
why do i want to rip a hole in one of those bags, just to see if they scramble around trying to pick them up.
Haha.. Actually I took the picture.. Truck was in Sacramento, CA..
There actually WAS a hole in one of the bags on the very front spilling out cans one at a time… I got a shot of that too..
The money from recycling those cans probably won’t cover the cost of the ticket for moving violations.
That’s about $5000 worth of cans in MI, if they were also bought in MI.
You can’t bring cans from out of state to MI and expect to get $0.10 each. In fact you will get exactly $0.00 each.
I once took a truck with the bed full of loose cans to the recycling center and it was about $800 worth, and that was just a bed full and none were crushed.
I want to see what happens when he stops. The laws of inertia are soooo against him right now…
Notice that suspension is not even compressed. The weight of all those empty cans is very little. I have carried big black plastic bags full of uncrushed cans and the only limit is volume, not weight.
I have some bags that would work. I think mine are pallet covers, though these appear longer/deeper. The pallet covers are more square. Quite thick plastic. Very handy in some kludge-y situations.
Is this reminiscent of the Grinch sled stealing christmas to anyone else?
Moron, should have smashed the cans before, would have saved at least 70% space
Come on now guys… Clearly you shouldn’t crush them. That would let all the air out. You wouldn’t want to miss out on that extra weight. That air could be worth 10 cents right there.
Well you do know that when you weigh air in air you can weight nothing right? Take it to a vacuum weight station to weight the can + air…
“Honey…ummm…are you SURE the recycle joint is open on a Sunday?”
If you buy them in NH, no bottle bill or sales tax, Wally World still pays 5 cent per can in VT. Such a bargain.
♪ because we can-can-can, because we can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can… ♪
One student’s night of drinking…
If he’s going to MI, he’s gonna have to make several stops ’cause that’s way more than $25 worth of cans there.
But at least they’ll get double for each. To the Meijers! And then the 7-11s! And then the Wal-Marts! And then the Krogers! And then the grocery stores!
Another productive trip adds to the liver translplant fund.
that must have been one hell of a party!
ah the daily frat boy empties run.
What was it Obama said? YES WE CAN!
These are all the cans I collected over the summer after doing my community service..
Lol, Yah, I passed that death-trap in a hurry.. Barely had enough time to snap a picture from my iPhone while performing my flyby..
Maybe not the safest move, but better than hanging out behind that thing.. And yes, those bags were flapping around.. His speed was somewhere around 70 MPH.. This was EB on the 50 interchange between I5 and highway 99 in Sacramento, CA…
My favorite part was the hole in the very front-most bag that was spilling cans on the freeway.. Got a picture of that too…
POP QUIZ !! How many bags of cans are there on that truck??
I’ve already counted but I’ll save my answer for later.
and another question… Where do you find bags that freakin big??
at leasty kramer and neuman had the sense to hire a U haul !!!
They stole a Postal truck
ummm, ya that is worth much more than 50$
If this was Denmark, it would be worth a load… 1 can is worth about 20 cents, euro cents
I bet I can beat that with the number of empty soda cans in my room…wait…I don’t think I should be bragging about that ._.
Can you actually mail the cans to the redemption centers? That would have saved this guy a heck of a lot of gas if you could. But then of course, elephant sized boxes are not in high availability at the moment.
Maybe he’s suffocating zombies in between the bags.
y was i not invited to the party of the soda and beer get together