Would not get away with it today

[ToSlow]

I remember when this happened, Didn't just happen once

Volvos Laid to Rest In Bedford Basin - The Scuba News

The Volvo Assembly Plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia was opened on June 11, 1963 by Prince Bertil (a member of the Swedish Royal Family). This plant was Volvo's first assembly plant opened outside Sweden and North America's first non-domestic auto plant

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In 1969, 26 Volvo bodies intended for the plant were dumped into the Bedford Basin after incurring severe water damage in transit across the Atlantic Ocean on a container ship.

 

[MacDoc]

Why? Making artificial reefs from scrap cars and ships is common practice around the world.

 

[Mad Mike]

Things I remember that you can’t do today.

I posted earlier this month about an open gravel lot at a gas stop near Amarillo TX that was used for oil changes. For $10, you got 4 cans of oil, a filter and the use of the gravel pit for a self serve oil change. Just pull the plug, let the oil return to Mother Nature, fill and head on your way.

I remember the days when lots of gas stations had service bays that dumped oil into drains for disposal. Same with people who changes their own oil.

City folk burned leaves in the fall.

Country folk burned their trash.

Some folks even rode blue smoking 2 stroke street bikes!

 

[matthew]

I miss the good old days when the entire world was a dumping ground, highways cut through the middle of cities and we drank leaded paint from the back of pickup trucks.

 

[Mad Mike]

I miss the good old days when the entire world was a dumping ground, highways cut through the middle of cities and we drank leaded paint from the back of pickup trucks.

Played games with liquid mercury and made ash tray with asbestos paste as crafts in elementary school.

 

[crankcall]

There is trench about 15 miles out from Bedford , they left from Halifax harbour . Returning from WW2 , my FIL was put in command of an ocean barge , every second morning they would depart with trucks , bulldozers , cars , cranes and machinery and dump it all in a 3 mile deep trench . The Canadian economy needed a jumpstart and all the cheap surplus equipment would not help the project . Thousands of pieces of equipment are out there . They had been drained of oil , most of the fuel , they had to run for 30 seconds to fall off the barge . Europe needed it gone , we didn’t need it . We gave every small town in Canada an artillery gun or tank to decorate town hall after the First World War , nobody needed more .


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[mimico_polak]

I'm sure decades from now it'll be more of the same...just different things that will be discarded and the next generation(s) will think 'WTF was up with those people'.

 

[spitRR]

Here's a good one:
Kids science lab with Real Uranium!!

 

[GreyGhost]

I'm sure decades from now it'll be more of the same...just different things that will be discarded and the next generation(s) will think 'WTF was up with those people'.

On that note, since tesla seems to have a lot of control over vehicles they have built, what are the chances musk gets bored of older models and bricks them?

 

[mimico_polak]

On that note, since tesla seems to have a lot of control over vehicles they have built, what are the chances musk gets bored of older models and bricks them?

I don’t think he’ll brick them, but the support will be ended completely.

Or they’ll do the Apple thing and update it so batteries start dying faster and force people to update.

 

[TK4]

Lead water pipes, asbestos home insulation, radium watch faces - all good fun until somebody keeled over and died.

 

[crankcall]

pewter mugs and plates , lead based cosmetics, unfiltered cigarettes , Urea spray foam insulation, motorcycles......

 

[Ash]

Raw sewage was still being dumped into Halifax harbour until very recently. Sewage treatment plants didn't come online until 2008, and were completed in 2010: Harbour Solutions - Wikipedia

 

[Dirty Frank]

Things I remember that you can’t do today.

I posted earlier this month about an open gravel lot at a gas stop near Amarillo TX that was used for oil changes. For $10, you got 4 cans of oil, a filter and the use of the gravel pit for a self serve oil change. Just pull the plug, let the oil return to Mother Nature, fill and head on your way.

I remember the days when lots of gas stations had service bays that dumped oil into drains for disposal. Same with people who changes their own oil.

City folk burned leaves in the fall.

Country folk burned their trash.

Some folks even rode blue smoking 2 stroke street bikes!

(deep breath)Mmm MC-1