Pikey!

My collegue P and I spent yesterday morning filling a shiny new recycle bin with used lead-acid batteries. We reckon about 200 or so. The intention being a company would take these away for us, dispose of legally and issue us with a certificate of conformance. Oh and we'd get paid a small fee per battery.











And to prove there is value in scrap metal, overnight we were visited by the local Pikey's....


They cut the chain and helped themselves, leaving just one battery behind and a single glove. Grrr.












Next time we intend just to pile them at the road side with a sign saying "Please help yourself."

Update (11/08): It occurs to me that some might not be familiar with the term "Pikey." Think of the traveller clan as depicted in the Eddie Izzard/Minnie Driver series The Riches but without any of the "lovable rogue" elements.

Oh and over the weekend it looks like they came back to collect their glove! LOL