jaylectricity: FTA: The couple spent hours "force feeding" the machine and maximised their point-earning potential by cutting cans in half

I'm not sure they really wanted that piece of information broadcast to the world, but I suppose they probably told the reporter without thinking.

Pro tip: break in to the side, then feed the same cans in over and over. You're saving the environment, after all. It's worth the effort.

Pow! Right in the kisser.

NikolaiFarkoff: They should try pudding.

Came here to mention this.

Link. (new window)

I hate when smug bastards claim that they are helping clean up their town/city/world while collecting cans at the same time. You're doing to to make money and that's the only reason. It's true that cans are litter and it's good to pick them up. But if you're going to get all holier-than-thou you had better be picking up any garbage you see, not just the payables.

props for being environmentally friendly and all, but if they had spent the time they took collecting stuff and putting it into the machine getting and working at a part-time second job they probably could have earned considerably more than the 3,000 pounds the flight cost...

APPROVES

/The link, she's hot

Cutting cans in half?

the lawsuit that develops because of them cutting cans in half should be funny

I can't tell if she's fap-worthy or not.

comictimes
props for being environmentally friendly and all, but if they had spent the time they took collecting stuff and putting it into the machine getting and working at a part-time second job they probably could have earned considerably more than the 3,000 pounds the flight cost...

still, while not being the best option, the fact that a couple can suck in their pride and pre-conceived notions of romance and status, and do something so zany, together? They were made for each other.

Sybarite: "There was enough rubbish out there to fly us to the moon and back."

approve


/for the old-timers



You did NOT just post that. I thought of that show for the first time in 20 years on Friday. And here you are posting a pic of the Vulture and crew.

Wow.

Inibrius: I can't tell if she's fap-worthy or not.

Rub one off anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Arent there bums in the UK who take care of this?

A the article proves is that there is not a homeless problem in their town.

BlorfMaster: Arent there bums in the UK who take care of this?

They're too drunk.

Actually, I have a feeling that the best way to collect old aluminium cans is to go round the night before collection-day in areas where they'll pick up your recyclable materials from the kerb(/curb)side.

Then cutting the cans in half.

comictimes: props for being environmentally friendly and all, but if they had spent the time they took collecting stuff and putting it into the machine getting and working at a part-time second job they probably could have earned considerably more than the 3,000 pounds the flight cost...

and as for being environmentally friendly, how much extra gas did they waste "taking the long way home" to look for scrap?

Your dream honeymoon takes you to the US?

MM0600: Your dream honeymoon takes you to the US?

Hey, wouldn't you want to be in Canada's pants for your honeymoon?

crazycooter: and as for being environmentally friendly, how much extra gas did they waste "taking the long way home" to look for scrap?

It says they took the long way home from nights at the pub, which suggests they were walking.

Ironclad2: NikolaiFarkoff: They should try pudding.

Came here to mention this.

Link. (new window)

I, too, remember the Great Healthy Choice Pudding Shortage of 2000.

/Sacramentan

Nice start -- I picked up an entire 4-piece drum set that was set out on the curb for trash pickup. Turns out, this vintage (1960's era) set was worth over $700+. I sold it on eBay and bought an entire, brand new Pearl 7-piece set in its place with the money - I did not spend a dime out of pocket......farking sweet!



///been green a long time.
////loved the movie reference Sybarite
//old-timer here

Can't forget the Great Wendy's/Airtran Giveaway of 2005, either.

I got 8 round-trip tickets for me, family and friends by fishing around in their dumpsters at 3 AM a few nights. Also found a sweet Wendy's uniform.

Unfortunately, every time I eat at Wendy's now I have flashbacks... you can never get that dumpster smell out of your mind.

binnster: crazycooter: and as for being environmentally friendly, how much extra gas did they waste "taking the long way home" to look for scrap?

It says they took the long way home from nights at the pub, which suggests they were walkingdogging.

/for your convenience and perhaps amusement, I edit your post as shown above

Et tu, shaunirving?

They married in August, then sailed to New York on the Queen Mary 2 and travelled to Denver, Colorado and Nashville, Tennessee, before flying home from Atlanta.

Honeymoon in Atlanta? FAIL.

/atlantan
//not a tourist city

Woohoo!

A story from my home town!

So... cutting cans in half and announcing it? One fail there.

Announcing the prize to the BBC and now requiring that they pay taxes on it? Fail two.

When I lived in northern California they had machines like that. You put in your recyclables and it spit change back out at you.

It paid for beer every few weeks.
Wish they had those machines in the midwest.

They were collecting large amounts of metal cans and redeeming them for club points which they redeemed for air miles.

Does England have no low level scrap recycling? It looks like they got ripped off on the metals, even with their can splitting.

/But it sounds like a great way to get people to recycle plastic bottles.
//And glass.

Mrs Till, 24, a merchant navy navigation officer, said: "Sometimes we were posting 600 items a time into the machine. We would be there for hours putting stuff through the slot.

Ha, the machines here print out a receipt for the service desk, but the supermarkets won't pay out more than $10 max, to keep the homeless away.

Sybarite 2008-10-06 11:32:04 AM
"There was enough rubbish out there to fly us to the moon and back."


I do believe thaat picture is an old timey F-84F

BlorfMaster: Arent there bums in the UK who take care of this?

There is no deposit on cans and bottles in the UK so there is no benefit... unless of course there is still a few drops of alcohol in them!

That's a great story. They cleaned up a portion of the world, and got paid well for it.

More people should be doing stuff like that.

What I want to know is why there is no program like that anywhere in this country. I'd gladly participate.

I can't tell if she's fap-worthy or not.

There's a she in that picture? I only see two dudes.

Is it just me or do hippies work harder trying not to get a job than if they'd just get jobs?

jfsimpson: Announcing the prize to the BBC and now requiring that they pay taxes on it? Fail two.

What tax?

meekychuppet: jfsimpson: Announcing the prize to the BBC and now requiring that they pay taxes on it? Fail two.

What tax?

And what prize?

Worked at this every night for 3 months???

They could have made a ton more money getting a job.


/but i suppose they wouldn't have helped the planet as much

tgibbs:I hate when smug bastards claim that they are helping clean up their town/city/world while collecting cans at the same time. You're doing to to make money and that's the only reason. It's true that cans are litter and it's good to pick them up. But if you're going to get all holier-than-thou you had better be picking up any garbage you see, not just the payables.

Whatever their motivation, they are helping clean up their town/city/world. Doesn't matter if they're trying to or not.

/hopes you're just trolling

Thats an 827

I do believe that picture is an old timey F-84F

I thought it was a SabreDog at first...

Thats an 827
Sybarite 2008-10-06 11:32:04 AM
"There was enough rubbish out there to fly us to the moon and back."

I do believe thaat picture is an old timey F-84F

That may be an F-84F but I do believe that Sybarite's reference was to a short lived TV show called "Salvage 1". Andy Griffith's character owned a junk yard and built a space ship to take him to the moon to salvage the old Apollo stuff.

http://www.tv.com/salvage-1/show/3650/summary.html

Oh man, I guess this means I'm officially an old timer.