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Just a Bulldozer Crushing Dozens of Bikes and Quads, Nothing to See Here

Back in April, we brought you a story that said things would end badly for the illegal bikes and quads caught on the streets of New York. NY Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD promised they would destroy the illegal vehicles seized and broadcast the process on TV.
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At least a crushing session took place, and you can see it in the video below. Frankly, we support confiscating illegal two- or four-wheelers, but we don't agree too much with the destruction part. While we're totally sick of wanna-be stunt riders who plague the streets and highways, we also believe that a more noble fate could have been devised for their machines.

Donating them to charitable organizations that would send them to poor remote communities in third-world countries, to riding schools or to other similar enterprises that could put them to good and legal use are only the first things that come to mind.

Even auctioning them off and directing the funds to local community projects would have been more useful and purposeful than simply running them over with a bulldozer.

Of course, the crushing makes a point at a symbolic level, but this doesn't necessarily make this approach the optimal one. At least, they should have made the process a truly spectacular one, taking the bikes and quads to a large shredder and crushing them to inch-size bits that would "rain" from the bottom of the machine into a pile of unrecognizable debris. THAT would have stood as a better symbol of utter destruction. The shredded materials should have then be sorted and sent to a factory to be melted into new products.

Still, making money or helping others in need with the confiscated bikes and ATVs sounds like the best idea, if you ask us. Even more, this could transform into an authentic resource, simply because it looks like riders with zero respect for the law will not disappear anytime soon, and there are plenty of vehicles to be seized in the future.

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