How? Well, how about we tell you about an absurd yet absolutely real story. In a land far far away, a Chinese man smuggled 127 fake iPhone 4 and 4S devices. No doubt a terrible act. He got caught. The phones got confiscated. The man got fined $65. Obviously, not draconian measures by any means.
What happens next however goes beyond the limits of the imagination. Local police followed the law to the letter and set on to actually destroy all those phones with the same method used for destroying pirated discs. Scatter them on the ground and run over them with an excavator in front of a crowd of witnesses! The leftovers were then burnt in a boiler room.
Obviously, this is the law. Also, quite obviously, the law is absurd.
Congratulations, Russia! You have destroyed $36,500 worth of iPhones, devices in which thousands of Chinese workers have put their sweat and tears, not to mention those rare earth minerals in them that have caused and are causing a virtually never-ending century-long war in Congo. You have destroyed devices you could have given away to your Government administration or sold and given away the profits to the poor. Or a thousand other more sensible things, because - you know - phones are not like discs.
So here is to hoping for those indestructible phones of the future. Or simpler - for smarter people...
source: English Russia
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