10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

I could be richer than Oprah if I had only saved those cans.....

Aluminum is very rare and precious in Canada.

inebriated brain: 10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

Your math is off a bit. It's 10 cents a can.

inebriated brain: 10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

22,000 cans
2,200 dollars
10 cents per can

I have an 8th grade education. What's your excuse?
Are you retarded?

inebriated brain: 10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

I could be richer than Oprah if I had only saved those cans.....

Psychotropic: Are you retarded?

This.

amateur

Kenny B: In Ga. it's not worth saving beer cans. They only pay by the pound for them

guess you need to drink more of them, then

inebriated brain: ...The numbers they send are irrelevant. When a country sends 10 troops it is an acknowledgment by their government that the leader ( USA ) is just in its action...


10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

I could be richer than Oprah if I had only saved those cans.....


How do those paint chips taste?

Suuuuure he has alot of friends. Farkin alcoholic.

/in before discussion of obscure microbrewery beers.

10 cents a can is pretty damn good considering I pay $3 per 12 pack of coke. So each 12 pack is worth $1.20 in aluminum? I leave a garbage bag full of coke cans by the dumpster every two weeks for the local "can man". Hopefully he's making off as well.

/be careful, sometimes the 'can man' can be found scavenging inside the dumpster

I couldn't find any math nazi pictures, so here's a hot nazi chick



And dude, I'd say put down the beer, but it's obviously too late.

So this was one night?

cretinbob:
And dude, I'd say put down the beer, but it's obviously too late.

Too late for what? The party's just starting!

Returning to cans to Michigan nets you $0.10 per can.

Wisconsin is $.75/lb.

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dxfan227: NO COMMENT

Whered you get a picture of my old dorm room?

Dr James Biggles: cretinbob:
And dude, I'd say put down the beer, but it's obviously too late.

Too late for what? The party's just starting!

For the ETOH brain rot.

It's called a deposit people. you pay it when you buy your soda/beer. In New York it's juststuff with bubbles in it anyway. To some people getting that dime back isn't important, so they throw them out.

Well, let me go on a beer run.

I saw a guy in Texas with a Ford Econoline just JAM PACKED with empty cans, and there were four huge bags, 8' long and 4'eter tied to the roof.

He was smuggling them from Texas ($0.75/Lb.) to Michigan ($2.60/Lb.).

I believe he had 300+ Lb. on board.

Didn't Kramer collect aluminum cans for a scheme in one episode of Seinfeld?

cretinbob: I couldn't find any math nazi pictures, so here's a hot nazi chick




heil der matematik

/I don't know if that's even close to actual German

Approve.

TFA:" Collecting the cans, which were stacked four-flats deep and 15-flats high in his basement, was relatively effortless, he told Sun Media."

What's a flat? Some foreign measurement?

So they have a deposit on the cans -- you pay the deposit when you rent the beer, then when you return the can you get the deposit back. This, rather than actually getting free money for the cans as scrap metal as in many places.

That explains why he apparently kept the cans uncrushed and stacked in cases.

Impressed

Please, that's only like $2,199 American.

And this is unusual somehow?

It may be fairly rare to let the cans pile up that long but I doubt if it's unique. In the city, you see old people or street people collecting cans from the trashbins. In the country, some of the old alcoholics just let them pile up until they need the money or the garage.

Monkeypillow sez:

What's a flat? Some foreign measurement?

Thats those little cardboard boxes the cases of 6-packs come in. 24 cans to a flat.

Can also apply to landscaping plants and other items stored and shipped in flat containers

Psychotropic: inebriated brain: I have an 8th grade education. What's your excuse?
Are you retarded?

He's perpetually drunk?

/at least, that's what I assume from his login.

Back in the day one of my neighbors moved out. They never did anything with their empties. Let them pile up for the 12+ years they lived there. Musta been at least a grand worth of cans, if not more. I don't know why I remember this.

Psychotropic: inebriated brain: 10 bucks a can? Farkin A! I wanna drink that beer!

22,000 cans
2,200 dollars
10 cents per can

I have an 8th grade education. What's your excuse?
Are you retarded?

By the fark handle he's got, he's inebriated.

But, quoting a movie....No he's not retarded.

10 cents a can in Canuckistan? Geesh.

/currently searching for his missing 89 cents worth of cans....

brantgoose: And this is unusual somehow?

It may be fairly rare to let the cans pile up that long but I doubt if it's unique. In the city, you see old people or street people collecting cans from the trashbins. In the country, some of the old alcoholics just let them pile up until they need the money or the garage.
i'm an old country alcoholic and yup 2 10 case bags is another thirty pack got a prob w/ that?

It's 10 cents a beer can or bottle in Alberta. Everything else under a litre is 5 cents a can. Anything over a litre is 20 cents.

I spent the summer of 1990 around Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Being from Georgia I was astounded at how much a can was then worth (5 cents, 10 cents for bottles). My friend and I would go and take them from people's recycling bins and take them to get recycled. We made about $20 a day, and triple that on weekends. For sixteen-year-olds without a car, that was a lot of money.

But, seeing that beer is somewhat expensive in Canada, isn't that a little off?.

/Unless he didn't bought any of the cans
//Then it's a pretty nice profit

Just to clarify, those were beer cans and bottles and we took them to be recycled at "the beer store."

Either way, that is a whole bunch o'cans. Still, it's small potatoes for the trash pickers aka homeless aka Mexicans who do most of the recycling down here.

Meth heads have given up on aluminum and plastic and are presently stripping copper wire out of anything that has copper and can't run away, being too far gone to realize aluminum and plastic are still more cost effective per pound.

Approve, eh?

Gyrfalcon: Meth heads have given up on aluminum and plastic and are presently stripping copper wire out of anything that has copper and can't run away, being too far gone to realize aluminum and plastic are still more cost effective per pound.

Don't tell me break into schools and steal anything with copper?.

olddinosaur: I saw a guy in Texas with a Ford Econoline just JAM PACKED with empty cans, and there were four huge bags, 8' long and 4'eter tied to the roof.

He was smuggling them from Texas ($0.75/Lb.) to Michigan ($2.60/Lb.).

I believe he had 300+ Lb. on board.
And after factoring in the price of gas, he probably had enough left for a happy meal.

Working in a small grocery store in '86, a lady called in advance to ask if she could return a large amount of returnables from her recently deceased son's house. I told her it was OK. Turned out to be $170. The boss was pissed.

In the 90's, I roomed with a bunch of guys who couldn't be bothered with 10 cent deposits. I returned at least $30 bucks a week.

$2,200 / $30 wouldn't even be 2 years worth.

/didn't RTFA
//I miss those guys.........

Dang! I was betting the story was from Calgary before I RTFA...

/half points for knowing it would be Alberta?

I remember when they increased the deposit from 8 cents to 10 cents... the welfare bums were out in force. They heard about it months in advance and started stocking up.

Best I've done is our semester long Beeramid where we stacked our cases of empties. We took them back over a week and came out with about $400 in the end. That was with us working full time on an internship too.

/6 for a light buzz
/12 for half in the bag
/15 for a good time
/18 for a great time
/24 done it a few times, so I've been told.

Malbar: The joke is on him since he lives in Canada. With most of the provinces granting an alcohol monopoly to a small handful of retailers, his $2,200 back doesn't even begin to compensate for the $20,000+ he paid above a fair price for those cans in the first place.

why is the joke on him? Some people don't get compensated for recycling. $2,200 sounds alot better than $0.00. I also doubt all of the beer cans were purchased by him solely.

CygnusDarius: But, seeing that beer is somewhat expensive in Canada, isn't that a little off?.

/Unless he didn't bought any of the cans
//Then it's a pretty nice profit

Unless he didn't bought any of the cans? Are you kidding me?

/ya I bolded AND italicized
//wow we are getting all the Midvale alumni in here tonight....
///obscure?

Here in Iowa, we call that "Wednesday".

UberNeuman with the Zap Rowsdower reference!

Ok, RTFA...

The disabled man has also spent the past decade collecting pop and beer can tabs, which he hopes to eventually use to help the Stollery Children's Hospital buy wheelchairs.

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Isn't that an urban legend, like guys handing out LSD soaked snoopy stamps at school playgrounds? (new window)