Bulldozer crushes illegally imported cars and bikes - GIF

Bulldozer crushes $6 million worth of illegally imported cars and motorcycles in the Philippines.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...558#post185817
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...359#post158198
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...067#post149413
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...102#post145308
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...767#post186560

Well the government of the Philippines is known for their sane and rational responses.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-p...-idUSKBN14I0DH

They pull this **** in Australia as well. They couldn't possibly sell them or donate them to trade schools, I'm in education and am constantly told we have no money for "that" I was once told there was no money for new light bulbs! Currently I'm having to beg and grovel for a bit more square footage in the workshop. A couple of those cars would cover the cost.

NYC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWL_v6msinY

What a collosal waste of money, resources and time. So frustrating to see those vehicles go to waste.
Why not sell them to overseas buyers and use the proceeds to fund education, or food & shelter to those in need?

High value photo ops...

Its the same as Odumbo's cash for clunker's fiasco pandering to the climate change radicals. Giving them a feel good moment in a photo op trying to convince the little people they are protecting the planet.

A few years ago, my neighbor phoned and told me I'd better hook up my little utility trailer, and head to the metal pile at our local dump. He said it looked like someone had dumped the remnants of a body shop. As I pulled up to the pile, I recognized the metal, as exercise equipment... much of it was powder coated... pulleys, cable, stainless steel, etc. I made three trips, hauling the stuff home. I paid scrap price for the loads, total cost for me was $65. Story was that the high school had received a grant to equip a new exercise/weight room, so threw out all of the old stuff. Rather than donate the gear to a country school, or sell it, someone made the decision to just dump it. And these people teach our children.

My first project, using this metal, was a keg lift for a local brewery. It stacks kegs three high, powered by a drill driver.

I guess I don't understand why government agencies would simply destroy stuff like that. In my law enforcement career, I have seen cars and trucks with altered or obliterated VIN's be renumbered by the state, retitled and sold and the state given the money. "Illegally- imported vehicles?" What does that mean? "Someone in authority did not get their palm properly greased with money?" Lots of possibilities and good parts literally destroyed. Would make for a neat TV show entitled "What can you make from this illegal stuff?"

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Originally Posted by Gadgeteer

... And these people teach our children. ...

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NO. This is incorrect!!!! The people who teach your children DID NOT make this choice. It was the bean counters and administration who did this. They have very little to no contact with the kids!!!

I do agree that are some bad teacher, bad policemen, bad politicians, just as there are just plain old BAD people in the world. Let be careful before we toss a bunch of people all into the same box!! There are a lot of idiots in the world, and I do agree they are breeding but we still need to avoid statements like above!!.

The cash for clunkers saved many car dealerships and auto workers. Check the numbers.

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Originally Posted by FEM2008

The cash for clunkers saved many car dealerships and auto workers. Check the numbers.

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Cash for clunkers was a well meaning economic and environmental catastrophe. Also I don't care if the professional swindlers at the car dealerships starve to death. The entire reason those people exist is to screw people to the maximum extent possible.

If all manufactures concentrated on manufacturing goods with a minimum of a million use cycle life span and rebuildable. many things would last most of the end users 40 to 50 years or longer. This would reduce the environmental cradle to grave impact by many factors.

What utter stupidity and colossal waste. It's unreal how stupid some humans in this world can be, let alone government leaders.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

Cash for clunkers was a well meaning economic and environmental catastrophe.

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Well meaning only to someone who was trying to gain votes with the hypocritical environmental climate change whackos.