And lo on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:31:45 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Out of pure curiosity did the suppliers of your new oven take the old  
>> one away for free?
>
> Actually no.

Was it pure gas or did it have an electric hob?

> It's quite irritating really. I've been hearing all kinds of stories on  
> the news about people stealing metal. (Not to be confused with "steeling  
> metal".) Apparently one house had their roof stolen (?!), and a church  
> had their bell stolen. But *we* leave an old oven and a sink sitting on  
> our front lawn for a week or two and does anybody steal it? NO. In the  
> end we had to *pay money* for the Council to come and take it away...  
> grr!!

Too hard to dismantle into useable parts for melting down.

-- 
Phil Cook

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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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