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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22 January 2008 at 12:26 am
Ajay Ranipeta
Oh yea, i’ve seen these around. Always thought was funny.
22 January 2008 at 11:01 am
Jon Seymour
I wonder if you pay more for the ‘discrete’ service.
22 January 2008 at 11:26 am
Snarky Platypus
Maybe the shredders are the Federal Police, with a secret document scanner embedded into the “shredder”.
22 January 2008 at 12:25 pm
jay
No volvo is ‘innocent’
22 January 2008 at 9:10 pm
Mike Minutillo
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.
22 January 2008 at 10:37 pm
Mat F
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.
23 January 2008 at 1:56 am
jay
gee that semshred is a piece of work!
23 January 2008 at 2:34 am
Stilgherrian
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.