One of my Facebook friends was posting about how he regretted his family getting rid of an old VW Beetle. His dad was also not happy that the city sent him an extra trash bill to dispose of this. I bet this wouldn’t have worked with a heavier built car with a cast iron V8. I have never heard of literally throwing a car in the trash but now I know it has been done.
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That’s amazing.
Great picture.
A friend of mine grew up on a family farm in Iowa. He told me years ago when old farm equipment reached end of life, the family would simply bulldoze a big hole, push the equipment in, and cover it up.
You can travel around farms all over the North East, and you’ll see old tractors just sitting in farm fields. Some are decades old.
Sorry but I believe this is Fake News… I Googled the photo and I found numerous postings of this and other photos of this “crushing” on various Spanish language Web Sites and even one dedicated to VWs in California. Oh I believe this was done (Maybe…) but not in the US, probably Mexico…
My wife was the Parts Manager and then the Fleet Manager at a BFI (Browning Ferris Industries) Waste Services Company in the 1980 and early 1990s. They are the Blue Garbage Trucks… So she knows her trucks and she says that truck looks like a Mack LE McNeilus Garbage Truck (although little of the actual truck is visible, but she does not believe this photo is real. If this was really done by a real trash/garbage company, it was probably a private collection service. She believes that it is merely a staged stunt.
The hydraulics and the crusher unit were not built to perform this type of crushing and the system would fail when the collectors were careless and dumped old building supplies like old lumber (2X4 and 4X4) into the crusher and it almost always filed when crushing old pallets.
Additionally, what city would send out a driver with only one or two collectors to lift a VW and shove it into the back of this type of truck, and even then, once the front is crushed, the unit cannot pull the VW into the crusher further, people would have to lift the back and then shove it further in, not something two of three people could do…
Besides what city would risk a worker’s compensation claim for an injury from lifting a car and shoving it into a garbage truck?
Here is another Photo from the Mexican Web Site…
Way to let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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Cities usually have the right to dispose of abandoned vehicles, part of property-appearance regulations. You’d think however the owner would get a letter in the mail, and an opportunity for a hearing, to explain to an adjudicator why the car shouldn’t be declared “abandoned”.
Interesting… I guess this is just more clickbait crap to get your attention and draw you into some scheme. For this reason I will copy and paste, NEVER share content I am unsure of on Facebook as that breaks the chain back to the original account. I wonder if the guy’s account got hacked and spammers/scammers were posting this. This is my first time on this one but some are like a broken record. You just never stop seeing the same spams/scams repeatedly like the lost/found dogs, old person, guy cutting catalytic converters, duct cleaning, house for rent, etc.
I do know a few folks who have gotten their trash men royally pissed off by throwing large items or huge quantities of trash away though.