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Location DB > United States > Texas > Irving > Central Freight > Confronting Scrappers

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Sat, Jan 23rd, 2016
posted by The Good
Confronting Scrappers

I loved using this Facebook UER group that I found because it was easier and meshed with my everyday Facebooking, but after seeing this site (Central Freight) and the Public Market get beat up closely following my visit, I just had to stop sharing at large. Many of you veteran's have likely seen this cycle repeat many times. When I visited this site in February it was nearly untouched. A few weeks later, scrappers had started scrapping, by the end of the month kids had beat all the glass out of the place. Fast forward eight months and I notice much of what I would call junk has been removed, junk that would otherwise certainly be comprising a layer at the landfill. But instead of being junk, someone found value in it and apparently re-purposed it...Good!

When I turned into the entrance of this place, I could already see that there was a small pickup on the dock floor. I was wearing a white dress shirt as I had just came from a lunch at one of our sister property's. I knew that wearing my white shirt gives an impression of authority to people that are not. Several times I have been mistaken for the property owner or government official while exploring (before changing clothes). I headed directly for these guys just to see what their reaction was...and also to demonstrate my intent. Before I closed the last 100 feet the guy motions me over(he's got something he wants to say to me)...taking command of the situation. I roll down my window and he starts jabbering about property ownership and some Irving City Council meeting (which I thought was just all the same kind of BS that I would make up to get out of a bind.

One guy says he's just interested in cardboard and pallets (though he doesn't bother to load any within sight while he's there). As I talk more to the other fella that's giving me a history lesson on the property and lamenting over his failed efforts to get permission to reclaim materials from the site I notice he has a large pair of bolt cutters lying between the seats of his truck. I thought about calling bullshit on his "cardboard and pallets" claim but by this time he had showed me a link on his phone to www.crossroadsdfw.com that illustrate a large development that has been planned for a long time. So, just like the former Cowboy stadium, this 117 acre tract is going to be waded up, ground up, sifted, sorted, the value separated from the waste and the trash going to the landfill.

I don't know if there is a moral to my story. Just rambling about every visitor to a place has different prerogatives, different values or a lack there of. While I hate how scrappers can destroy what we "shooters" value, I have to say I think I like the idea of the little guy extracting some hard earn rewards from what would just be troublesome revenue to the big guys. I think its safe to say we all hate change...but with this site, it looks like oasis may replace the industrial void.

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