Don’t forget the copper wiring they are attached to!
And the wooden pole!
Not to mention the delicious videos inside
And the useful bones inside the CEO that can be made into jewelry and tools
This is a feature of Dwarf Fortress
Bros just over here consuming media
Yeah that’s not “pure” silver.
You’re right - they’re trying to pull one over on you. It’s platinum.
That’s the joke.
I mean enough scrapmetal still means food/drugs. And I’m certain many cities have a population that would find value in that. Just need to drop off some well placed flyers, and cities would be deflocked overnight.
You do need to gather enough scrap to cover gas, that’s hard to do with these.
If you have a car, you are likely not the demographic I was talking about.
Are most scrap yards even accessible without a car? My country isn’t nearly as car-centric as the US and it would still be a huge issue to try and go to a scrap yard on foot.
Here where I live, yes, they’re accessible, and I have people who go through my trash and recycling for cans every trash day (to the point we keep those on top so they don’t have to dig.) Usually walking with their commandeered carts.
Is scrap somehow much more valuable in your parts, or are these people even more desperate than the people around here who collect cans and bottles that have a deposit? I feel like more people here would scrap non-deposit cans if it was worth the effort …
I honestly don’t know. It’s outside my knowledge beyond what I’ve already told you.
I think the bigger issue whether you can actually sell stuff like that at the scrap yard if you don’t have license or something else that proofs that you got ur scrap legitimately.
We never of that kind of requirement around here. I know people who drove their old rusted metal tables to the scrapyard, obviously they didn’t have any kind of proof that those are actually theirs and definitely no scrapping license. But maybe the local scrapyards might still refuse people if there’s a more concrete reason for suspicion, IDK.
Looks like aluminum plated solid gold to me!
Yeah I think it’s an alloy or some kind still worth it though.
If they’re plated copper, they might actually have decent value. Several of the components there are electrical, so they genuinely might be. A couple of them just look like coupler nuts, so cheap mild steel.
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense for these memes to show actual value. Crackheads are desperate but they ain’t that dumb.
If we’re going to spread misinformation… Why not actually spread misinformation???
Looks like you need to make some memes my friend!
I support the removal of flock cameras but the reality is that surveillance cameras with tracking are probably some of the stupidest devices to try to steal.
Truly the catalytic converter of 2026
I heard that all of those new “data centers” have lots of copper. Lots of it. So I’d be checking them out before they can suck up all of our good drinking water. /s
Data is more valuable than copper.
I’d look into grabbing some of that data
You’ll just needs good place to put it all somewhere.
Yeah some kind of central location to store it all
A centre for our stolen data, we shall call it data centre.
But we’ll need a lot of copper and processing power for it.
Why /s? There must be loads of copper wiring, and I fully encourage theft from billionaires and tech grifters.
With all that extra money I can buy some ram and a new gpu!
Good news! They already have RAM and GPUs at the data centers! Skip a step, pick 'em fresh.
This makes no sense, sorry. Why would it be silver out of anything like stainless steel?
/whoosh
Those are aluminium BTW.
Could be plated copper, unless you have better information - I’ve seen similar components in breaker panels and the like that are plated copper (plated because raw copper likes to corrode and get ugly looking).
I have just worked with aluminum pieces in a machine shop enough to spot em. I would be shocked if they were plated copper and not just aluminum.
Not that it applies here, but hypothetically… one might choose silver for better conductivity and lower heat in high current applications.
i like this series of posts about harvesting precious metals from surveillance devices
The batteries are genuinely valuable
Looks like silver- or tin-plated copper to me. So not entirely silver.
Don’t let that fact stop anyone who might enjoy this as a past time though…
I dunno, looks like it could be platinum to me. You know how these high tech gadgets are.
I could use some of that silver on my projects
I know, right? Fucking vampires.
And werewolves…
Yeah, I always get them mixed up. Them garlic bullets don’t do shit anyway.
