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Scrapper's Junk Truck

Old beat brown truck has stuff sticking every which way out the back. On sides of pallets he has added to both sides, to try and cram more. As truck turns I see a rusty refrigerator, wheel barrow, and two bikes. One of the bikes looks pretty new. This is an affluent neighborhood for Kansas City. I hope he did not just pick up some child’s bike in a yard. That would be too cruel.

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Date: 11/13/2021 10:27:00 AM
oh yes, that would be cruel if he just took some kid's nice bike! I never see this kind of person in neighborhoods around here. Interesting!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/14/2021 1:05:00 AM
We see them in Kansas City a lot.
Date: 11/13/2021 9:33:00 AM
Me too, Caren. We have guy in beat-up, old trucks come around our neighborhood looking for scrap, too. I suppose everyone has to make a living some way, but I would hate to think they are gathering up kids' bicycles!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/14/2021 1:05:00 AM
I think that some do

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