You know what they say. One man's trash is another man's treasure, but sometimes I'm left wondering what some guys see in our trash.

This week is large trash pickup which pretty much means just that, we can put all the large trash on the side of the street we want and they will take it away. I spent the better part of Saturday and Sunday taking out almost half a ton of crap. Including 3 old broken TVs that were just taking up space.

People come and go and take the usual stuff, a piece of plywood that was part of an old bed frame, a old rusty steel shelf and various other stuff that I can think of uses for. But a couple things have surprised me and left me perplexed as to what they could need some of this stuff for.

The first thing that got me curious is I saw a a family come and sift through our trash, 3 children and all. I figured they would just take the TVs but no. What they started doing was hacking the power cords of all the electronics with crowbars. What they needed just the power cords for I don't know. The next thing that got my attention was some banging I heard about an hour ago so I looked outside. I saw some guy hitting the back of one of the TVs with a hammer. He was reckless enough brake the tube letting out all the gas. he did the same thing to each TV. Apparently he too was after the wires because all he did was remove the wires and the projection device that sits at the back of the tube but left all the circuitry inside the TV.

So I'm wondering what people need with all this wiring. I was talking to my neighbor and brought this up. He said it had something to do with them needing the copper to make meth. Somehow I don't think this is the case but It has served to fuel my curiosity on this matter.
These TVs are at least 15 years old so the wiring is faulty and brittle and is probably what led to the TV's failure in the first place so I cant see it being reused for anything. But what uses could it serve, Anyone have any Ideas?