The dangers of MTUs

For those of you who dont know, MTUs (Mobile Tractor Unit) are deployable structures that suck in any surrounding wrecks you own. They use an on board tractor beam to pull things in before they loot and store the goods within. A dedicated junker will never pass the opportunity to recycle some abandoned loot, and will take it upon his/herself to clean up by opening the MTU manually. Inevitably this sometimes requires a little brute force.

Killing an MTU is sometimes frowned upon by other capsuleers, resulting in name calling, threats or sometimes even CONCORD bounties. We junkers aren't popular folks, but we like to keep space clean and thats what matters!

Capsuleer Smekla naikintojas carelessly abandoned his MTU in the Gidali system which was picked up by junkers Gerel and c4binfever, a job well done.

Unfortunately for Smekla this was not a lesson well learned, as the following day he left an MTU floating in space for a second time. Once more the junkers were on hand, but this time made a shocking discovery:

repeatedly abandons his MTUs

Smekla's ship had been sucked into his own MTU! You can see his ship's modules in the killmail. Further investigation leads that Smekla is still alive, and luckily avoided being crushed in beside the remnants of his ship.

Another sad story can be told about what happened to Rodger Pattison, who thought he was making an investment when he purchased a 'Packrat' Mobile Tractor Unit. Instead the MTU owned him - and sucked his faction fit ship inside. Our attempts to contact Rodger have failed, so if you read this Rodger please tell us you are now safe!

a shiny ship meets a gruesome end

If you are an MTU user please be careful when using these death traps. Tractor beam are not toys.
Should you like to know more about MTU hunting, our friend Pix Severus has been doing it for a while and runs a nice blog on the subject. https://mtuhunter.wordpress.com/