Scabs the Keychopper strikes again!  Just my own thoughts:  I wouldn't think that Goodwill would bother with chopping the keys off of typewriters themselves.  They would, instead, be concentrating on more profitable items such as computers, tvs, stereos, and other electronics and getting these sold.  It could be that Scabs tried to sell these on the open market, failed, and just gave them to Goodwill to worry about.  From the end results I've seen of a keychop, it looks like it would take A LOT of work getting them off of a typewriter.  At least it wouldn't be worth it to me to try to get those kinds of keys off a typewriter just to sell for jewelry.

Hmmmm.  Must have been a slow day for Goodwill staff to be involved in this.  I wouldn't have thought they made that much money from chopped keys.  However, whatever, it is still tragic, and I'd be curious as to the whereabouts of the typewriter so I could see if it was otherwise repairable (again, I have wanted to find such a typewriter that I would have parts for and rescue it back to service--maybe with plastic keys, but it would be healed again).

Oh, this is going to sound macabre, but I zoomed into one of the pictures, and saw part of the keylevers still attached to some of the keys!  It reminded me of, and I almost can't say it, but it reminded me of a wounded dead animal.  I almost cried.

Yes, and in addition, they can go back to selling whole typewriters again like they used to--only this time they can put them in those "Auction" displays.  I bought a Royal KHM that way from one such Goodwill.  They will make more money doing it that way than they would just selling the keys, and look at the man-hours they'd save.

That is a few hours' drive from me.