[TowerTalk] Example of typical gov waste

[Jim Lux]

On 9/11/12 11:05 AM, Les Kalmus wrote:
> Wouldn't the point be to allow someone to buy them and be the reseller
> instead of destroying them?
>
Not if they've been classified as requiring "demilitarization", which in 
this case means reducing to shredded scrap metal. Granted, it's not 
obvious why these have been classified as such.

Sometimes, things are classified as "must be destroyed" because they are 
unsafe in their present state (bent, corroded, rusted), and they don't 
want someone selling them without noting that.  This was a big problem 
with surplus airplanes a few decades ago.  In this case, maybe those 
tower trailers were flooded in Katrina or something, and have unknown 
histories.


It's sort of like a "salvage title" on a car that has been wrecked.