Lost Bitcoins Man is still trying
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Soldato
Rubbish story. People are talking trash!
What happens when the costs of excavation and clean up exceed what these investors have frontend? It'll be on the council to foot the remainder of the bill as they won't be able to go after this guy as he won't have anywhere near the funds to pay the council back.
Commissario
"Mr Howells put the hard drive containing the Bitcoin in a black bag along with other parts during the spring clean but his now ex took the rubbish to the dump in Newport, Gwent in error"
His ex is not available for comment, she was last seen disembarking a private jet on a private island in the Caribbean which she purchased just under ten years ago.
His ex is not available for comment, she was last seen disembarking a private jet on a private island in the Caribbean which she purchased just under ten years ago.
Soldato
Surely he has more chance of suing his ex than the council
Man of Honour
Should get Specsavers to do an advert.
Soldato
Don't they sort landfill to a certain extent , remove batteries, electricals ect ,i keep seeing these jobs where they stand over a big conveyer belt
when you take a black bag to some tips in Cornwall they have a policy to go through it at their discretion, to check for recyclables mixed in
when you take a black bag to some tips in Cornwall they have a policy to go through it at their discretion, to check for recyclables mixed in
What's the basis for that claim? He's got a set of investors putting up the funds for this, it's not him funding it, their proposal is to process on a part of the site I thought, it's not like it's a load of rubbish being taken away and then a risk of the operation stopping.
It seems like an exercise in futility. I had a colleague who binned an old laptop containing over 100 Bitcoins when they were worth almost nothing. He's pragmatic about his loss; this guy needs to move on with is life.
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imagine having this playing on your mind every minute of every day, must be wasting his life festering over it.
Caporegime
Yeah, there was the famous pizza guy who bought a pizza with 10,000 BTC. Unsurprisingly it was worth **** all at the time. Hes also said repeatedly that hes not sad he did it. I had some BTC back in my younger days albeit not very much. I think I had it when it was worth a few hundred quid. I wouldn't have held that until it was worth £50k and very very very few people would. I would probably have sold at £1000 or even £500 if I hadn't already...ahem....spent it on a good time.
Commissario
Not generally.
IIRC The jobs for sorters are for the likes of the "recycling" bins where they might employee people to assist in sorting the materials at the recycling facility.
The black bag checks are I suspect much more random and to basically point out "you numpty that goes in the paper bin over there" sort of thing, my local council has a policy that if the bin collectors see the wrong sort of stuff for the bin it's in they can refuse to empty it and will leave a note for you, and the local tidy tip has staff who will point you to the right container if you've got any queries.
Except that that is still a risk the council will have unless they get a very hefty upfront payment that is a lot more than they expect it to cost.
That still doesn't help with the disruption to the tip that it is going to cause as tips are not generally laid out in a way that makes it easy to cordon off an area, and any search as I said before is going to require them digging up a far larger area than the initial "this is where we were dumping on the day", then have at least the same sort of area or more again set aside to shift the rubbish into, and that rubbish is going to have to be hand sorted and go down a fair bit further than the expected layer for the week or month of the dumping. Bear in mind that tips don't just throw the rubbish down and forget about it, they tend to have the likes of bulldozers compacting it and levelling it, which means anything put down in one specific area could be moved around a fair bit, or potentially disturbed and lifted weeks or months later and moved again.
You're looking, depending on the size of the area the tip was covering potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of waste to be moved and sifted by hand, this is not going to be cheap, quick, or done without massive disruption to the site, and the health and safety and insurance issues for it are going to be pretty big and the council probably can't just get away with getting a lawyer to write up a document saying "I the undersigned absolve the council of any responsibility for anything that happens" as it tends not to work like that.
I mean I can see one possible way it could be done, they buy the tip site when it's closed down, but even then there are going to be a bunch of legal, environmental and safety issues involved that mean the council would likely have to shut down the hunt.
Soldato
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Whoever sorts that rubbish would need to mount a huge, multi-year operation with close to zero chance of success.
I used to live near a tip that was turned into housing. Every day, dozens of lorries left the site carrying away waste. That went on for some considerable time. And that was just removal, not sorting...
I used to live near a tip that was turned into housing. Every day, dozens of lorries left the site carrying away waste. That went on for some considerable time. And that was just removal, not sorting...
Just wondering, did it stink while they did it?
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Yep, badly.
I noticed it first*- a chemical smell, vaguely ammonia, but not quite. The wife said I was going mad. About a week later other people started noticing it. They put some new conditions on the removal people at that point.
The new housing estate house owners have some sort of covenant that they're not supposed to grow vegetables, so I've been told.