 Don't know whether to be mad or sad
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Loquacious
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Seems like there were other options available rather than crush these bikes. Bill Bratton is a jerk.  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/crushin...BBtaHly#image=1
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Saddle Sore
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Saddle Sore
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Two cents a pound. I would have given them a dollar a pound. Idjits.
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3/4 Throttle
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3/4 Throttle
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Road Rash Heals. Freckles Grow Back. Ride
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Bar Shake
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Bar Shake
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Seems kind of stupid. The city could have made money by auctioning them off instead of spending money to destroy them. I'm sure the unlicensed drivers learned their lesson. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Monkey Butt
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Monkey Butt
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I wonder if they crush cars for those offences as well? My guess is NO!
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Worn Saddle
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Worn Saddle
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Reminds me of what I witnessed years ago when I was restoring a 64 Chevelle. I was in a junkyard looking for missing pieces of chrome for my car. The yard manager told me to wait in the office until his guy that knew the yard could help me find what I wanted. So I was standing outside, just killing time, and here came a flatbed semi truck with a pile of crushed cars on it, going to the melter. The cars were obviously 1920s and 30s autos. I was flabergasted! Any one of these cars would be worth more to a collector than the whole bunch crushed. As I stood there for about 15 minutes or so, at least 4 more trucks left the yard. I asked the yard manager what was going on, and he said, "yeah, we're getting rid of all those old cars out back". I couldn't believe the shortsightness of the thinking. This was 1977 or so, the height of the street rod restoration craze. The money and material that was wasted! What a waste.
Fidelis et Fortis
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I watched a complete 57 chevy get crushed, the car was shot but the trim was worth a fortune.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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The crazy high prices for scrap from 2005 to 2010, paid for by the Chinese, spelled the doom for millions of classic cars in the Western United States.A 64 Pontiac would fetch $650 at the height of the prices paid, same car today, $100 if you're lucky. That's $650 at the gyppo scrap buyer s yard, not the big premiums buyers at the ocean port, shipping points
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