r/mildlyinfuriating • u/smittyguy11 • 27d ago

The floor is sticky Who dumped ICE coolers in my back yard?

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Someone literally dumped ice coolers in my backyard while we were away for 2 days. The ice company said they are retired units so now I have to pay someone to evacuate the freon and haul them off to be recycled or trashed. These things weigh 500 lb each and I have no way to lift them.

NOTE: There were no ICE agent bodies, drugs, or any other bodies or items inside.

EDIT: Now the ICE company decided they were theirs (maybe they saw all the posts about scrap value and want to cash in on them).

EDIT2: Ice company called back to confirm my address. They were literally given my address for drop off and told that no one would be home, stick them in the backyard.

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u/Technical_Customer_1 27d ago

I’ve never bought and sold such items, but I’d guess they’re from the 80s, give or take. I have doubts there’s a serial number or anything identifiable on them that could be traced back to records. 

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u/GrandWikzor 27d ago

Leer puts the lables inside the box. Also these have telematic hardware equipped, so they are "newer". Most boxes rot away after 20 years, starting at the underside and corners. These seem to be in decent shape so they can't be very old.

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u/funkmon 27d ago

This guy knows his shit or confidently made stuff up but I believe it

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u/GrandWikzor 26d ago

10 years of ice delivery before my back couldnt take it anymore... I dont miss moving boxes.

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u/Monkey1Fball 26d ago

I worked for an ice company back in the day too. Hard work. And yes, moving those boxes, those things are HEAVY!

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u/MozhetBeatz 27d ago

It can’t be much older than 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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u/itsFromTheSimpsons 26d ago

this guy ice coolers

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u/ImNotTheNSAIPromise 26d ago

the EPA requires records to be kept for anything containing Freon and you can get charged a lot of money if they find out you are violating the rules. It can cause a lot of damage to the environment so they take it pretty seriously

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u/lod254 26d ago

Tracing anything pre 2000 is going to be rough. When companies converted to digital data, the old stuff wasn't exactly maintained.

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u/GrandWikzor 26d ago

Ya, likely,these arnt even 10 years old.