In a very recent event here in the Philippines, a line of luxury cars, hundred in numbers, were crashed by bulldozers in front of the public. This is in accordance to the policy of the government that any smuggled goods were to be crashed and destroyed. Yes, you read it right, the luxury cars were smuggled.
The Department of Customs said the imported cars were named after a person, who in research, doesn't exist. The shipping of these cars to dealers were ceased because the import caretaker was not able to show proper documents for the said cars. Thus, they were crashed after a week of allowance given to the possible owners to show the right documents.
Cars that were crashed were all high end including Porsche, Lamborghini, Lexus, Cadillac, Chrysler and many more. The vehicles ranges from sports utility vehicles, sports car, luxury sedans, big vans, truck and some lite wagons.
Philippine branch of these brands already extended their word to the government officials that they are not behind this illegal doings, but they also expressed their feelings towards the vehicles that were crashed.
The public is now torn about the idea of the government doing the right thing or not. Many people suggested that instead of crashing those high value cars, why not just sell them to the brand owners so that the government can generate money from it. The idea is good, however, the government is just too tough to listen to such ideas.
This coming Saturday, 20 more vehicles are scheduled to be crash. Hey! Why not just give me those cars haha.
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