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POWER PLUG......
GRAVEYARD vs. SALVAGE YARD Funerals can cost a bundle; sometimes $10,000 to $15,000. When a person dies, he is taken to a funeral parlor for preparation of the body, viewing by the loved ones ad burial in the cemetery. Every community has land set aside for the eternal rest of people who die. That land cannot be used for anything else ever again. The story is a little different when a car dies. The owner pays about $100 to have the car (body) towed away. It is taken to the salvage yard (funeral parlor) where it is dismantled (prepared); but here is when the picture changes. Instead of being placed permanently in the ground, some of the remains are sold as usable parts and the rest are taken to a scrap metal processor. There the metals are either shredded or baled and sold as reusable metals. Like the funeral parlors and cemeteries, salvage yards and scrap processors provide a needed service to the community. They provide low cost parts to people who cannot afford a new car, and they remove unsightly wrecks from public view. Picture the community reaction if the 16 million cars, trucks and buses we handle every year had nowhere to go! They would be rusting on driveways, in backyards, along side highways or in the woods. Why is it that no one cries out against the high cost of funerals and the permanent use of land for cemeteries? Yet they complain that salvage yards are an eyesore and get their politicians to pass restrictive laws against us. What is we had to bury all of those "bodies" and put marker on their "graves"? What if "Rest in Peace" became "Retire in Place"? We would soon run out of space on earth to put them all. The next time you pass a salvage yard, why not consider saying "thank you" instead of "get lost". Sheldon Mankes
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