2/8/2005: Chinese police destroy tricycles

Undertoad · 02-08-2005, 01:31 PM

The official caption says this is a load of illegal tricycles, taken by Chinese police, dumped and ready to be destroyed. But there is absolutely no information on why they are illegal, or why they have to be completely destroyed. Presented for your enjoyment anyway!

LabRat · 02-08-2005, 01:35 PM

and i thought americans were the kings of wastefulness...

wolf · 02-08-2005, 01:45 PM

Must be part of that government tricycle buyback program. Children are now much safer because of the tricycle control program instituted by the government.

(so, how can they buy back something they never owned anyway???)

GruntDoc · 02-08-2005, 01:55 PM

Though I'm only surmising, after reading some pages about China and tricycles via Google, they're probably either 'unlicensed business' or weren't paying the trike tax.

Seems pretty silly, though.

http://www.bikechina.com/ct-pscchina-6.html
http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/local/le2001_0607_01.htm
http://cms.westport.k12.ct.us/cmslmc...inginchina.htm

Troubleshooter · 02-08-2005, 02:09 PM

They also may not be children's trikes, but people who haul with them as a business.

jaguar · 02-08-2005, 02:15 PM

Quote:

They also may not be children's trikes, but people who haul with them as a business.

My guess is some kind of illegal rickashaw business.

glatt · 02-08-2005, 02:45 PM

They should auction them off.

capnhowdy · 02-08-2005, 03:17 PM

Wonder how they plan to destroy them?

No flee ail? Burrshit! Gomel Pyre no wolky heel!!

They will probably melt them down, make cheap, flimsy toys and trinkets with them and sell them to another country for a gazillion bucks.

I'd like to have a US buck for every rodent that lives in that scrapheap.

jaguar · 02-08-2005, 03:31 PM

traditional chinese way is to roll over them with a tank.

Guess · 02-08-2005, 04:08 PM

what!? they should give them to all the orphaned baby girls over there!

somebody ask billy wtf is going on over there

warch · 02-08-2005, 05:06 PM

Maybe policy is to limit to only two wheels per family.

footfootfoot · 02-08-2005, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by warch

Maybe policy is to limit to only two wheels per family.

She shoots,

SHE SCORES!!!

blase · 02-08-2005, 08:36 PM

They probably just want to melt them down, steel prices being what they are.

mrnoodle · 02-09-2005, 09:28 AM

maybe we should send them our tire piles. there's one locally that's got something like 4 million tires in it, and now the county won't fund disposal of them. a new export! we've already got them buying our prairie dogs

Wormfood · 02-09-2005, 10:58 AM

I guess this is how it looks like when they have a trafficaccident at their rushhour :p

02-08-2005, 01:31 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/8/2005: Chinese police destroy tricycles The official caption says this is a load of illegal tricycles, taken by Chinese police, dumped and ready to be destroyed. But there is absolutely no information on why they are illegal, or why they have to be completely destroyed. Presented for your enjoyment anyway!

02-08-2005, 01:35 PM	#2
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	and i thought americans were the kings of wastefulness... __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

02-08-2005, 01:45 PM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Must be part of that government tricycle buyback program. Children are now much safer because of the tricycle control program instituted by the government. (so, how can they buy back something they never owned anyway???) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-08-2005, 02:09 PM	#5
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	They also may not be children's trikes, but people who haul with them as a business. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

02-08-2005, 03:17 PM	#8
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Wonder how they plan to destroy them? No flee ail? Burrshit! Gomel Pyre no wolky heel!! They will probably melt them down, make cheap, flimsy toys and trinkets with them and sell them to another country for a gazillion bucks. I'd like to have a US buck for every rodent that lives in that scrapheap. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please. Last edited by capnhowdy; 02-08-2005 at 03:19 PM. Reason: flaw in my immaculate Chinese

02-08-2005, 01:55 PM	#4
GruntDoc Provocateur Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 9	Though I'm only surmising, after reading some pages about China and tricycles via Google, they're probably either 'unlicensed business' or weren't paying the trike tax. Seems pretty silly, though. http://www.bikechina.com/ct-pscchina-6.html http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/local/le2001_0607_01.htm http://cms.westport.k12.ct.us/cmslmc...inginchina.htm

02-08-2005, 02:45 PM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	They should auction them off.

02-08-2005, 03:31 PM	#9
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	traditional chinese way is to roll over them with a tank. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-08-2005, 04:08 PM	#10
Guess What's my name? Guess Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 69	what!? they should give them to all the orphaned baby girls over there! somebody ask billy wtf is going on over there __________________ "Earth laughs in flowers" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

02-08-2005, 05:06 PM	#11
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Maybe policy is to limit to only two wheels per family.

02-08-2005, 08:36 PM	#13
blase Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 91	They probably just want to melt them down, steel prices being what they are.

02-09-2005, 09:28 AM	#14
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	maybe we should send them our tire piles. there's one locally that's got something like 4 million tires in it, and now the county won't fund disposal of them. a new export! we've already got them buying our prairie dogs __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh Last edited by mrnoodle; 02-09-2005 at 09:30 AM. Reason: ok so it's the japanese that buy the prairie dogs. w/e

02-09-2005, 10:58 AM	#15
Wormfood Superior Inhabitant Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 73	I guess this is how it looks like when they have a trafficaccident at their rushhour :p Last edited by Wormfood; 02-09-2005 at 01:23 PM.

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