WHY do people do this??

[user181]

It's amazing how some people scrounge up the tiniest bits of copper, thinking they're going to get any significant amount of money.

While in college, I worked as a telecom installer, and one time when we were pulling a lot of network cable (4-pair CAT6) in a large building, one of the janitors kept gathering up our cable scraps, which were only a couple feet long or so. He thought he was going to get big money for it.