A new green crushing initiative beats cars to a pulp with old trees
This is the time of year to get ready for last year’s figures. And here come some new ones.
In 2007 the Ministry of Love crushed and bailed almost 50,000 tax-dodging vehicles to ease the world shortage of steel.
Most of these cars, one assumes, would be past their best and hardly worth claiming from the police pound.
Others were probably left in the capable hands of Plod and Plod, metal diversification technicians because they were more dodgy than a three legged giraffe.
I have mixed feelings. People without insurance who are often swept up in these operations should, clearly, be waterborded and then locked up in a dark cave. On the other hand I can’t see what tax has to do with the police. They don’t come after you for missing your self assessment deadline.
I also don’t like to think of it as another way to reduce congestion.
Conversely how very beneficial for a struggling used car market.
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