A long time ago, I attended an auction conducted by the Torrance (CA) Police Department. One of the things they put up for bids was a box of burglar’s tools. The cop said they keep selling them, confiscating the tools back when they arrest a burglar, and auctioning the tools again! Golly, wouldn’t it be better to destroy the tools, and maybe inhibit a burglar now and then, instead of encouraging one by selling the tools?
I’ve also seen places that have sprinklers running–during a rain!
There was a place in Inglewood in the early 60s called Certified Check Cashers. In the window was a sign “No Checks Cashed.”
Post here something a business, government agency, or other entity did/does that is amazing and usually counter-productive.
Well, as Johnny L.A. mentioned over in INHO, the discontinuation of the Cherokee from the Jeep line of automobiles. Sheer stupidity.
Also, just companies in general doing things to their products that serves no other purpose than being an asshole to their customers. (Sometimes, they do these things thinking we might actually like them.
Example: The start menu in Windows 98. In Windows 95, if it was too big for the screen, it toppled over into another column, but in 98, there is this dumb arrow that you have to scroll down through. I like to see all my programs and folders at once, and I can’t focus my eyes on the moving text, so I usually go right by the one I want. I know I’m not alone on this issue.
Another example: Sony making it’s Playstation 2 use a different memory card. Sure, you can save your PS1 games you play in it on a PS1 memory card…but a PS2 game? Nope…gotta get a new one. At least the controllers work for both. And while I’m on the subject of video game controllers…have you seen the X-Box controller? Good God! I have to have hands twice their normal size to operate the damned thing!