WHY do people do this??

[YamahaFreak]

I'd imagine the copper in a four-foot-long stranded power cable is worth such a trivial amount of money (as is the yoke!) that people wouldn't bother...this whole scrapping thing really has gotten way out of hand IMO. I can remember five years ago it didn't exist at all. Now we have trucks and vans driving down our street at all hours of Monday and Thursday nights. I'm very lucky if I get to save anything now. FWIW I'd rather these things fixed up and sold or given to people that can use them, instead of being completely destroyed for at most a couple dollars. >_<