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Posted by Smitty Two on April 29, 2008, 11:36 am
> Ian wrote:
> > In order to get the city to pick up my old oven (Jennair built-in
> > unit) I need to remove the door.
> >
> > I know it requires some sort of lifting maneuver but I can't seem to
> > get it.
> >
>
> Doesn't matter - the city won't pick it up anyway.
>
> The city won't get the chance!
>
> The urban faeries will get it before the city can put on their boots. Same
> with water heaters, refrigerators, junked cars, whatever.
>
> These untouchables make a passable living, evidently, prowling the streets
> looking for scrap metal.
>
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> My city has an ordinance that before they'll pick up a refrigerator it has
> to have a notice that the refrigerant has been removed in a safe,
> non-polluting, recoverable manner by a certified technician ordained by Al
> Gore himself. I asked the head of Solid Waste Disposal (not the police
> department, the other one) how many refrigerators they pick up a year and he
> said about a hundred or so.
>
> This in a city of two million.
So your refrigerators last about 20,000 years, MTBF? What brand did you
say that was?
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