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...or a bucket of turtles

buriednexttoyou — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:32:10 -0800

The Ultimate Shredder - Plenty of videos of this beast "processing" everything from aluminum cans to a couch. Don't miss the washing machine video in which someone yells "SHRED IT!" Is it wrong to want to see a cow or something thrown into this thing? (via)

By: drezdn

drezdn — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:43:01 -0800

[this is good]

By: MarkAnd

MarkAnd — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:47:18 -0800

The couch one is awesome. It's like an outtake from Jaws.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:47:37 -0800

I could watch "computers (whole)" over and over again.

By: afx114

afx114 — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:03:56 -0800

Fuck yah! This is why God invented the Internet (and Metafilter) .

By: KS

KS — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:11:21 -0800

"The Company That Shreds Torpedoes" deserves T-Shirts. The company that got this design gig found a really great client.

By: nyterrant

nyterrant — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:18:34 -0800

I wonder how big the couch and whole-boat shredding market is these days.

By: casu marzu

casu marzu — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:21:26 -0800

That's an excellent bit of edutainment right there.

By: Brockstar

Brockstar — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:22:55 -0800

Wow, talk about your product promotions...

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:33:36 -0800

Yeah, but can they shred a shredder?

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:36:41 -0800

you know these guys must be really excited about their jobs when they sift through mulched medical waste with their bare hands.

By: chickygrrl

chickygrrl — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:36:51 -0800

... or shred a shredder shredding a shredder?

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:44:12 -0800

Hell yeah. This is amazing. I never thought, when I clicked, the list would not only say 'aluminum cans' and 'couch' and 'washing machine' but also 'boat' and 'refrigerator' and... this machine is clearly our god.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:48:18 -0800

Fargo (sorry... sorry)

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:50:17 -0800

Was anybody else dissapointed when they didn't see a "Mannequin" option? Or am I the only person that didn't purge that movie from their memory?

By: wsg

wsg — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:52:47 -0800

Is it wrong to want to see a cow or something thrown into this thing? Um...yes.

By: gren

gren — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:54:42 -0800

Steel Drums has got to be my fav...three cheers for this post !

By: picea

picea — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:57:20 -0800

This is what the Death Star needed. It would've helped them avoid so many problems down the road.

By: c13

c13 — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:06:33 -0800

Screw graduate school! I want to operate one of these things.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:07:03 -0800

I want to see the outtakes. In particular, I'd like to see the camera fall into the shredder.

By: fossil_human

fossil_human — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:46:02 -0800

Stan Chin: up until now, yes.

By: Stunt

Stunt — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:47:13 -0800

Screw operating one of these things, I want to OWN one. It's be so much easier to get read of old junk, like dead cars. Or no longer used sheds. I don't know why this is so cool. It's like a challenge has been issued; I need one now just to find something it CAN'T shred.

By: stokast

stokast — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:57:51 -0800

curious images from the medical waste shred:

By: heydanno

heydanno — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 12:47:07 -0800

I want to see the outtakes. In particular, I'd like to see the camera fall into the shredder. Camera man, you mean? Also, it's pretty crazy how the stuff just doesn't tumble along the top of the rollers. It really gets sucked down in. Amazing.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:03:55 -0800

Fantastic post. My absolute favorite is Couch. Did anyone else find themselves unable to stop laughing? Diapers? Oh man.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:06:29 -0800

It ate a boat. It ate a boat. That was awesome! (Also, thanks to Stan Chin and fossil_human's riff on remembering things once forgotten, I just lost. Damn it.)

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:12:43 -0800

Finally, the perfect answer.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:15:09 -0800

Toy Story III: The Reckoning In which Andy finally grows up and moves on.

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:27:40 -0800

It's amazing. I watch this and suddenly I'm like Beavis + Butthead with a circular saw.

By: ssmith

ssmith — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:43:36 -0800

I want one of these mounted to the hood of my car.

By: pejamo

pejamo — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:48:23 -0800

The reason couch is so clearly the winner here is because couch puts up such a good fight. When couch does inevitably succumb to the shredder, I felt both sad for the passing of couch and giddy at the sight of such a destructive toy. Three cheers for this post.

By: StopMakingSense

StopMakingSense — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:25:20 -0800

From what I understand, this is what happens when you put mutagenic ooze on a regular Shredder.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:34:25 -0800

"Computers (Whole)" is the "Shred of the month"

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:34:32 -0800

They should have recreated that Simpsons scene where two black suited minders shred the contents of Quimby's filing cabinet, then immediately throw the shredders and their contents into a larger shredder. Hilarity..

By: cloeburner

cloeburner — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:43:19 -0800

I think metafilter needs to cull all of our money together and buy a community shredder, for...um, shredding.

By: recurve

recurve — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:14:37 -0800

Diapers?! whywhywhy?

By: e40

e40 — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:52:20 -0800

Shredder porn. Nice.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:01:59 -0800

And nobody has said it yet? "I for one welcome our....."

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:46:05 -0800

Too ninja turtle-ish, jokeefe.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:19:05 -0800

That was maybe the coolest thing ever. Well, except for when I was NMT and EMRTC blew up a gasoline tanker by firing high velocity bullets at it. True, I didn't see that one, but I sure as hell heard and felt it. Oh, also the guy who combined O2 with his BBQ grill. That was pretty cool, too. Is it just me, or did anyone else get a little teary-eyed at the demise of Couch?

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:23:54 -0800

Please tell me those were "Waterboy" DVDs that that bad boy was shredding? Awesome link by the way.

By: randomstriker

randomstriker — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:17:18 -0800

Reminds me of how Benicio Del Toro died in "License to Kill".

By: kuatto

kuatto — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:24:11 -0800

Amazing, they need one of these at the end of every assembly line.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:57:27 -0800

curious images from the medical waste shred: Curious because the worker has no qualms about rooting though shredded medical waste without any gloves?

By: MrMulan

MrMulan — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:51:07 -0800

Six Feet Under has a new opening scene...

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:37:02 -0800

Finally, I have an answer for what to do with all those pesky catalytic converters laying around the place. Ditto for the concrete-filled metal drums, which, in my unenlightened pre-SSI world, I would have thought unshreddable. And...what c13 said.

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:51:23 -0800

Picea, I was going to post the same thing. If they ever build another Death Star, Chewie & Co. won't be so lucky.

By: Bron

Bron — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:57:18 -0800

By: The Cardinal

The Cardinal — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:15:51 -0800

Can't stop watching...

By: RockBandit

RockBandit — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:59:07 -0800

Steel Drums has got to be my fav...three cheers for this post ! I think the Steel Drums are my favorite too. There is just something so satisfying about seeing them suddenly crumple and disappear. It's almost as if they deflate like a balloon!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:07:03 -0800

Reminds me of how Benicio Del Toro died in "License to Kill". I was all set to be like, "Remember License to Kill?" thinking no one else would make the reference. Damn You!

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:08:21 -0800

Same idea as the product behind the "Grind Nemo" press release, right?

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:43:02 -0800

Superb.

By: taschenrechner

taschenrechner — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:58:24 -0800

Oh, this is a noise afficionado's dream! Not only are there some kickass shredding videos, but the audio is so incredibly Merzbow.