Quick! Call the shredders, stat!

22 January 2008 in Business, Marketing by Stilgherrian | 8 comments

Photograph of truck for mobile shredding service, with amber flashing lights!

Nothing wrong with shredders. Nothing wrong with having a shredder in a truck to come visit if you’ve got plenty to shred. But a truck with orange emergency-vehicle lights on top?

I guess it’d come in handy if the race was on. Who’ll get to your office first? The emergency shredder? Or the federal police with a search warrant?

Photographed on Stanmore Road, Enmore, in Sydney the other day. The Volvo is innocent.

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Ajay Ranipeta on 22 January 2008 at 12:26 am

Oh yea, i’ve seen these around. Always thought was funny.

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Jon Seymour on 22 January 2008 at 11:01 am

I wonder if you pay more for the ‘discrete’ service.

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Snarky Platypus on 22 January 2008 at 11:26 am

Maybe the shredders are the Federal Police, with a secret document scanner embedded into the “shredder”.

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jay on 22 January 2008 at 12:25 pm

No volvo is ‘innocent’

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Mike Minutillo on 22 January 2008 at 9:10 pm

I bet that has one of these babies in it: Semshred 4033 Industrial Shredder

I think the best thing about this page is the Buy Now button with the quantity field.

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Mat F on 22 January 2008 at 10:37 pm

I had three sulos of confidential waste shredded by a similar service. They like to show you the results through a little window on the side of the shredder. I looked and noticed some shredded metal in amongst the paper. So I asked the operator what I was looking at. He said that he’d accidentally dropped a spanner in the shredder on his previous job.

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jay on 23 January 2008 at 1:56 am

gee that semshred is a piece of work!

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Stilgherrian on 23 January 2008 at 2:34 am

Who’d have thought that shredders would generate so much interest! Thank you all!

@Mike Minutillo: You might also enjoy the watch-this-shred videos of industrial-scale shredders from SSI Shredding Systems Inc. Three dishwashers turned into ragged shards in ten seconds.

@Mat F: Bet you $20 the shredder operator just put some metal fragments in the bin so you’d “accidentally” notice them. Great marketing story.

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