by "zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
Published 01/24/2017 at 08:00
by "zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
Published 01/24/2017 at 08:00
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There’s a creek by my house, and despite living here nearly three years I finally got a chance to explore it last weekend. And I found this there, a lawn mower battery, right next to the creek. I’m sort of in disbelief.
Now, I’m not a active person who goes out of their way for the environment, but I do try my best to not make it worse, because I sort of like this planet ( it’s my favorite). There was other stuff there too, but this was the biggest, and most ridiculous, offender.
Just so oppo knows, I took the battery home, so I can take it in to be properly disposed of... unless it can hold a charge (I doubt it though), then I’ll keep it.
To leave this post on a more positive note, here’s some pics of the creek. It was quite nice to look at, and soothing too.
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
01/24/2017 at 08:10, STARS: 7
Lawnmotor battery? ‘Round here, that’s worth $5 at a scrapper, working on not.
I don’t understand some people.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
01/24/2017 at 08:19, STARS: 7
if your mower battery is dead, how are you supposed to drive to the store to get a new one? #firstworldproblems
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
01/24/2017 at 08:20, STARS: 6
Depends, is this in the work mower, or your goin’ out mower?
"Deal Killer - Powered by Focus" (dealkiller-ii)
01/24/2017 at 08:35, STARS: 1
Yep, been there, done that. There is a creek a block from my house. My kids and I make an annual trek with several garbage bags to pick up bottles, cans and various items of detrious. Last year, someone left a Laz-E-Boy chair down there. It was far too heavy to pull out, as it was water logged and the metal frame was sunk in the mud. I tagged it with an App on my phone for the city to come try and pull it out. I haven’t been back down to see if they could remove it, as the city workers may not travel down that far, as it is pretty steep. But, yeah, some people. Maybe the Donald will bring back public flogging. That would teach litter bugs to respect nature.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
01/24/2017 at 08:37, STARS: 2
Leaving that by a creek is pretty bad. I don’t tend to pick up litter, but I probably would’ve gotten that out of there as well. I also wouldn’t attempt to charge it personally. Who knows what state it is in - probably not really that risky but I’d be too worried it would short out and catch fire. Of course the reason it was dumped is probably that it doesn’t hold any charge anyway.
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
01/24/2017 at 08:57, STARS: 0
The property I grew up on was very old and had a small mill on it in the early 1900s. Every once in a while you would stumble upon evidence of this, like the remains of a furnace/water tank/whatever in the woods or a steam radiator sunk into the creek.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
01/24/2017 at 09:01, STARS: 0
Not even a scraper, any auto parts store will give you 5 bucks for it
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 0
It looks like I may need to make treks down there every so often. The problem is, is that the brush to get there is incredibly thick; I only went down there because all the brush was pretty much dead for winter.
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:09, STARS: 1
If the person who left it behind is the person I think it is (aka, previous owners family member), it doesn’t surprise me too much. They made weird choices. Like, they burned treated wood in the wood burner, instead of throwing away a burn barrel they tossed it down the hill (which is where the creek is), they let the grass grow tall (mosquitoes love tall grass), and the list goes on. And we find things buried all the time here; a volley ball net, air soft gun, silverware, footwear, etc.
They didn’t seem to care much, honestly. A neighbor told me I was the first to mow the backyard in the longest time.
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:17, STARS: 0
I can understand how dumping is ‘easy’, but you can always sell it for scrap. Or just leave it by the road and see if the garbage men take it?
"Brickman" (legomaniacman)
01/24/2017 at 09:24, STARS: 4
The one who dropped it off should be charged with battery :P
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:27, STARS: 0
I wholeheartedly agree, give them the book.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
01/24/2017 at 09:34, STARS: 0
Buncha savages!
"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
01/24/2017 at 09:43, STARS: 2
I remember a few decades back surveying a site where the back line was in a swamp. The site backed up against a wholesale battery place, and there were dozens, maybe hundreds of old car batteries just tossed out there into the swamp, leaking battery acid and lead salts into the ground water.
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:49, STARS: 1
Agreed!
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 0
I’m pretty confident your story is better/worst then mine.
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
01/24/2017 at 09:54, STARS: 2
I found a creek which contained 3 bicycles, a washing machine, a refrigerator, a full engine from some sort of car, and endless piles of assorted garbage. I was doing a “beach cleanup” in Paterson, NJ which is very low income area. I dragged a full size lamp pole out of the creek and filled like a dozen trash bags with assorted crap. Some people think a creek = trash dump apparently.
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 10:12, STARS: 0
Admittedly, use a lake if you are going to be secretly dumping stuff. At least it won’t be obvious....
"for Michigan" (formichigan)
01/24/2017 at 10:49, STARS: 1
I grew up on a decent-sized wooded lot and we would find junk just lying around the woods constantly. At one point we had a collection of old glass bottles we had dug out of the ground. We would also find bolts, metal containers, metal rods, and sometimes plastic stuff.
There was also a decomposing old convertible in the back of our neighbor’s property. Didn’t know what it was at the time, but I think it may have been a Fiat Spyder or something similar. It was surrounded by rotting tires and old household appliances.
The stuff that people leave laying around places like that is just baffling sometimes.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
01/24/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 1
Gah, some people. Thanks for cleaning it up!
If nothing else, sometimes metal scrap yards will give you a few dollars for the lead too.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
01/24/2017 at 12:22, STARS: 0
Holy wow!
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
01/24/2017 at 15:54, STARS: 1
Many a battery distributor will pay you cash for the core, usually along the lines of $10-$15.
"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
01/24/2017 at 17:11, STARS: 0
That’s a cost of a cd on sale!