Not so long ago i worked in the scrap metal trade. Well this particular guy pulls up in his car and asks how much a kilo would we pay for titanium. My first question as always was how much weight did he have? He says" id estimate 300kg" alarm bells start going off in my mind, who the hell gets that sort of weight from the public? Did he steal it? Well i ask if he has an abn, and he says no. Somethings amiss here i think, so i ask where its from. Oh I've been collecting it for a year, which is what every dodgy supplier says, and I'm thinking here we go another police report. I go in to the boss give him the code word and head back to the supplier. Mate we're just ringing for a price you'll have to wait a minute. He says no probs, and sits in his car. The boss comes out and says the cib is busy so we usually buy the item by cheque when this happens and cancel it before its cashed so we're not out of pocket. The boss tells him mate i can only buy some of ita we can only have a $300 transaction to the public in one go, tax office rules. The bloke thinks about it and says no worries. He pops the boot and here it is. About a million ring pulls/ pull tabs! The poor bugger thought they were made of titanium, and nearly had the cops called aa result. I felt bad, our "criminal" friend was really just an industrious and misinformed family man. And i can't tell you how upset he was when he learnt the were plain Olds aly . Total with up 260 odd kilos. A car full. That's Gotta be some sort of record. GT.
