I'm sure I'm telling everybody what they already know, but if you take old 12v batteries (car, caravan, motorbike, whatever) to the dump, all that'll happen is that the council geezers will take them to the scrappies and pocket the dosh.

Take them to the scrappy yourself.

I took four today; an 80ah Deta gel from the Troll which I'd ruined, one from the car which was old and tired, a Super Whizzo Leisure Special from the 230 which I'd also ruined and a 6v bike battery which I used to use to start the engine of a radio-controlled helicopter before I broke it.

In order to get my money I had to sign various bits of paper to prove that I wasn't a scally hell-bent on stealing lineside cable from Network Rail, and give them two thumbprints.

They needed one of each thumb, left and right, in a box, on the bottom of the form. A rectangular box plenty big enough for the thumbs of blokes with bigger thumbs than mine. I imagine most of the blokes who frequent scrapyards have big thumbs. I don't know this for a fact, but I bet if you measured the thumbs every bloke who went there regularly (and some of the ones who went less often too) and wrote the measurements down in a column, there would be a bias towards thumbs on the large side of average.

Once I'd done all that, a cheery bloke with a woolly hat and a dirty face pressed some keys on a computer keyboard so well-used that all of them except F12 were rubbed bare, and disappeared into the back leaving me to have an earnest conversation with the office whippet.

A few minutes later my patience was rewarded with a cheque for the handsome amount of £27.40. I walked out with a spring in my step and my hat at a very jaunty angle, as I'm sure you can imagine.

I intend to spend the money on a couple of sherbets and a number 46, a number 18, cashew nuts and a bag of prawn crackers for me and my lad since his mum is out on the toot tonight with her girly chums.

I can't wait.

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A story to warm anyone's cockles. Well done, that man!

Zitat

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Quote Pepe le Pew:- and give them two thumbprints. They needed one of each thumb, left and right, in a box, on the bottom of the form

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You OK with that Mate? They won't link you to anything will they?