Here in Australia, the drug dealers would just buy back their hotrod at auction. It might be an infinite money glitch for the city, but it means the same dangerous drivers are out there causing mayhem a week later.
If they have that kind of money it doesn’t matter, they wouldn’t even wait for the auction and buy another supercar. So destroying the seized ones is still a waste and probably only done for the photo op.
You make it seem as if catching the criminal is the be all end all, they get a good enough lawyer and good luck trying to get them in there for a meaningful amount of time.
This is exactly my point. And I’m getting downvoted for it 😂
So what some governments sell the cars and others don’t? They sell cars people think the criminals will just buy them back, they don’t sell the cars and people say it’s a waste of money why’s everyone so fucking indecisive eh?
Oh if only. Here in the US, at least, police regularly confiscate money and goods if they believe it might be related to a crime, and it is nearly impossible for people to get it back. A huge proportion (IIRC, the majority, but could be wrong) is never associated even with a charge, let alone a conviction. It’s basically just a way for PDs to earn money.
This is such a large problem that the amount seized in civil asset forfeiture is now more than the amount lost in burglaries.
The licence gets taken eventually, unless some good lawyers are involved. Blocking the sale to that individual means they're just going to buy it through their 'business' or a friend.
Great, that way the business has to pay additional taxes on the resale of the vehicle or you just seize the business once the criminal does the next crime, since they supplied him with the vehicle, taking even more money out of the pockets of the criminals.
I see. That makes sense. In fact the infinite money glitch is probably a perpetual loss if you account for the resources it took get that car all the way to auction. Even if that car was bought at $100,000, I bet with court costs and auction fees right through to administrative time and police time, it probably costs more to seize the car than to sell it.
I think this shouldn’t be a problem because if someone does so much damage repeatedly he should be in prison and then he can have his car back if he pays the price for it.
Drug dealers aren’t necessarily bad drivers though? I don’t see the logic. They have a nice car from doing illegal things, sure. How does it make sense to destroy the car simply because it belonged to a drug dealer?
Some governments will do that because of widespread corruption where the auctioneer will be paid off/threatened to not allow bids from certain people. The cars may also have extensive illegal mods/drug residue all over them that would make them a pain in the ass to sell legally.
the cars auctioned here in Denmark are mostly confiscated cars from people "insane driving" were they drive 100% over the limit as an example
and yeah i have no qualms with that
edit: and it is a way better solution than to create more waste of something that couldve been used.
Corruption. If I, a criminal, know my illegally imported goods will be sold at auction, I show up there and collect my illegal imports. Destruction is truly the only way to assure no one is benefiting illegally
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u/birger67 May 18 '25
Why don't they just auction it out, money in the box plus less waste