what do customs do with lasers?

[inuboi8]

with all the talk of people having their laser pointers confiscated by customs it got me thinking: what do they do with all the abandoned laser pointers that must pile up over the years? is there a spot in some dump in new york where there are just piles of perfectly fine arctics and other laser pointers or do the people that work they get a new toy courtesy of LPF members? :scowl:

 

[lasersbee]

They give them to me.....
I'm up to my eyeballs with confiscated Lasers...:eg:

Jerry

 

[Prototype]

with all the talk of people having their laser pointers confiscated by customs it got me thinking: what do they do with all the abandoned laser pointers that must pile up over the years? is there a spot in some dump in new york where there are just piles of perfectly fine arctics and other laser pointers or do the people that work they get a new toy courtesy of LPF members? :scowl:

They destroy them, you can contest the confiscation if you can prove the laser is legal to import and has a proper accession number. Otherwise they just destroy them.

 

[inuboi8]

They destroy them, you can contest the confiscation if you can prove the laser is legal to import and has a proper accession number. Otherwise they just destroy them.

but how??? a lot of these lasers are made using very durable and somewhat indestructible hosts, and is there like a body that oversees the destruction of these lasers? otherwise people at customs could very possibly be pocketing some of these

 

[Prototype]

Hardly indestructible by any means. They probably just smash them with a compactor or disassemble them and throw away/recycle various parts.

 

[kiyoukan]

i would love to go threw their dumpsters...

 

[inuboi8]

i would love to go threw their dumpsters...

i bet all the hobo's in the area have really nice things