Several Metal Drums
Found On: Spokane Craigslist By: Nicole B
I have 4 maybe more 55 gal metal drums I believe there all full of paint. The person who I purchesed the property from used to work at kaiser aluminum. So I would think they have something to do with painting metals. Call me for location of pick up thanks
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always thought the word “several” has a classy feel to it. Not “a couple,” not “a few,” no “bunch,” several. So I was curious. Perhaps these several metal drums would contain monocles, or top hats. You know, something classy, in bulk. Imagine my disappointment at learning they contain toxic waste. Which brings me to Part II.
Part II (In which bad gets worse):
I’ve noted before that the free classified perusal biz comes with an inevitable quest to find the bottom. When will we see the thing that is the least desirable? The most aggressively horrifying? It never appears. There’s always something worse, you just haven’t seen it yet. Unless someone in your neighborhood is giving away the skinned carcass of a dead ex-friend – that might be hard to beat.
This is in the running for the worst of the worst of the worst. “Something to do with painting metal” = toxic waste. If this poster were to try to dispose of these legally, he’d have to do a few things. First, he’d have to contact the Washington State Department of Ecology, and probably the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, have these drums examined, and apply for disposal permits. Then, he’d have to hire a private environmental remediation firm – guys walking around in HazMat suits, sounding like Darth Vader when they speak – to handle the materials. And of course, there’s paying for placement of the goop at some hazardous waste disposal site. A process of weeks, at a cost of thousands.
But “hey,” he thinks, “maybe I could give this stuff away on craigslist, and avoid having my new piece of land declared a profound environmental hazard! Craigslist, hell, that’s how I met my girlfriend and found my mountain bike. I’ll try it.”
Please, dear god, please tell me this won’t work.
Part III:
“Hi, I’m here for the metal drums.”
Oh, well.
This makes me want to call the EPA and alert them to that post. People are idoits.
Can these be that difficult to count? There might be 4, or there might be more than 4, it’s impossible to say?
This one reminds me of “barrels free full oil” from Wichita Falls, TX…..actually, it’s six 55 gal drums of used motor oil. What would I want with that?!?
http://wichitafalls.craigslist.org/zip/1221485969.html
This would be a great way of disposing of bodies:
You put them in sealed metal drums, drive them out into the middle of nowhere and post directions to them on cragslist. Then you say they’re free.
After that, they’re someone elses problem.
Rent a storage space and place drums within, hopefully the first month free or a buck. Then do not pay. After 3 months, the items within are auctioned off without inspecting to highest bidder. WALA, gone to a better place.
GinsuVictim, we burn used motor oil in a waste oil furnace. With home heating oil at almost $3 delivered last winter, that’s like $1000 worth of fuel. You may not want it, but WE sure do!
See, you learn something new every day. Thanks for the info.
Actually, this ad brings attention to a significant problem in the disposal of toxic waste: it is too damn expensive to clean up. Gives me a great idea for what to do with the 50+ half-used ancient cans of paint we got stuck with when we bought our farm…
Art project!
I can see where this person is coming from. Someone left a Honda Metropolitan in our basement a couple years ago. Rather than go through all the trouble of getting a salvage title (since it IS legally a motor vehicle), we were thinking of going the craigslist route. That, or pushing it into the parking lot of the neighboring restaurant, where it would get towed.
@random_anomaly
I was going to suggest that.
I wonder if the person getting rid of these has never looked inside. Likely, considering they don’t know how many there are. Things will be discovered. Unpleasant things.
The owner will find out why it radiates a “smell of death”.
The police will find out what happened to that woman that disappeared five years ago.
Return of the Living Dead: ZOMBIES is in there.
In all seriousness though, in Houston in the early 1990s, a young female sheriff’s deputy was kidnapped from a mall and found sometime later dead in a metal drum very similar to that one.
Remember that serial killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Robinson_(serial_killer)
who placed his victims in cans JUST like this and left them sit on his farm he bought JUST for them to sit without being discovered.
Makes me wonder what really is in those cans
eww. you people scare me…
well not more than the metal drums,but still
You can call 1-800-recycle (or type 1800recycle into your web browser for the internet site) to find your local household hazardous waste drop-off site for those old cans of paint. If typing the information into the website, just choose “drop off or buy back sites” for type of service, select “residential” and the county that you live in, then “household hazardous waste” for the recyclable material category. There are options for safely disposing of this type of waste (without posting on Craigs list!)
As one of those hazmat-peoples…we only sound like Darth Vader if we have microphones on- Otherwise we sound like we’re trying to yell through a mask and a puffy suit.
The local environmental agency would need to be contacted first- proper channels and all that. EPA is only called in if it’s 1) too big 2) too public or 3) too expensive for the local Dept. of Environmental protection, conservation, or whatnot.
And these were listed in Spokane? How am I not surprised?
Goes for $1.25/gallon here in Denver – people filter it and run it in multi-fuel engines from the 1970s… works fine and is cleaner/cooler burning than diesel!
Metal Method. Complete guitar. Total success.
haha, found saddam hussien’s WMD. ANd Jimmy Hoffa
Now I KNOW I remember seeing THIS on CSI.
Toxic waste /and/ dismembered human remains, possibly? Half the fun is finding out, I guess.
reminds me alot of something that happened nearby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_murders
Its quite likely WMDs… I mean, it would be too suss to try and dispose of them on ‘craigslist baghdad’. OR Kiki’s theory that its zombies… I was immediately reminded of return of the living dead when i saw these o.O
On the plus side, i would consider these just to shoot at with my airgun, pretend I’m in Doom…
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“Found On: Spokane Craigslist By: Nicole B”
Nit Picker’s commentary about calling the WA State Department of Ecology amused me to no end. I just moved out of WA state and I can now say that it is one of the most environmentally aware and anally retentive states in the union. How many people owning they-don’t-know-how-many metal drums full of metal paint/toxic waste are going to know to call the Department of Ecology? That’s some pretty arcane knowledge of state government, NP. It just makes me laugh that you probably didn’t have to look it up.
“I believe there all full of paint…and Not corpses AT ALL.”