Driving up to the front of a carpet warehouse on Sunday I was just pulling into a space when my 'retro sense' starting going and my eyes were drawn to a nearby skip. My eyesight isn't great as I refuse to wear glasses but I could feel it was a NES.
Over to the skip and sure it was, with one pad, power + aerial cable and a zapper gun all loose in a bag - so I went home with that and a rug, my lucky day!
EDIT: Should just mention I got the rug from the shop - I'm not that bad!
Bin Diving
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Re: Bin Diving
Oooooh, you jammy bastard! I dream of finding something like that. The only thing is, what were the idiots doing throwing it out in the first place?alexhighnumber wrote:I could feel it was a NES. Over to the skip and sure it was, with one pad, power + aerial cable and a zapper gun all loose in a bag
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Mind you, I chucked my Zzap! issues into the town dump, so I can't talk.
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Well I thought it odd as it's not something you'd expect in a Carpet World skip! At first I thought maybe it was an old console thrown out from the carpet world break room, possibly being replaced by an old psone someone brought in? When I finally got home though and searched through the two plastic bags it was in I found a lot of other detritus that didn't make sense, from kids shoes to empty jewellrey boxes and soon after I noticed on the side of the NES was a partially ripped semi ledgible sticker - saying #ES & Game# + Zappe# ##0.00.
So with that I'm certain it came from a car boot sale thats held on a nearby carpark on the weekend. Quite why it was discarded I don't know, I had a look at some of the other skip bags and saw no sign of a bag of games (or any non carpet rubbish), so I'm pretty sure it was just the NES discarded. Your guess is as good as mine at this point!
So with that I'm certain it came from a car boot sale thats held on a nearby carpark on the weekend. Quite why it was discarded I don't know, I had a look at some of the other skip bags and saw no sign of a bag of games (or any non carpet rubbish), so I'm pretty sure it was just the NES discarded. Your guess is as good as mine at this point!