Bought a 481X block from a scrap yard today

High jacking here but one has to wonder what the full backstory is behind that being in the scrapyard. Anyone else wonder about how many things get hauled off for scrap that many of us would be horrified and appalled by? I knew a guy that hauled a Ford 427 side oiler off for scrap in the early seventies during the gas crisis because he couldn’t afford to rebuild it at the time and wasn’t able to sale it, either.