# Dear Santa, I have been very good this year... (Cool destruction equipment) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299 "2014-09-02T22:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/1 "2014-09-02T22:19:49Z")
I want [one of these for Christmas](http://www.chonday.com/Videos/excamuoich2)😉 I’m sure I’m responsible enough to use it and can resist the urge to see what else I could use it on… ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/2 "2014-09-02T22:37:06Z")
OMG! That is awesome it would make my yard work a breeze! And free mulch too! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/3 "2014-09-02T22:42:56Z")
I’m sorry, but Santa says it’s back-ordered. Would you like a pony instead. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/4 "2014-09-02T22:58:45Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I’m sure I’m responsible enough to use it and can resist the urge to see what else I could use it on… Zombies - you know - if the worst should happen (and it will happen). I want one of these: (And a knitted dinosaur onesie to dress it in) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/5 "2014-09-02T23:07:30Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I’m sorry, but Santa says it’s back-ordered. Would you like a pony instead. Can I put it through the mulcher? 😉 (I would never do that, I may not be a fan of equines, but I certainly wouldn’t want to see them harmed in any way, I’ll just keep ignoring them instead) I’ll just run it over a Toyota Prius instead, I hate those stupid excuses for cars… ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/6 "2014-09-02T23:11:22Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I want [one of these for Christmas](http://www.chonday.com/Videos/excamuoich2)😉 > > I’m sure I’m responsible enough to use it and can resist the urge to see what else I could use it on… Make sure the kids and dogs are inside first. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/7 "2014-09-03T07:42:54Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > Make sure the kids and dogs are inside first. Fuck that! I’d take it to the Soccer field. Then the dog park! ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/8 "2014-09-05T01:13:57Z")
Yeah, but could it take out Star Trek’s Doomsday Machine? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/9 "2014-09-05T03:35:37Z")
Hell no! If I was lucky enough to be on the good list & get one this year, I’d be on the naughty list [del]next year[/del] the rest of my life. :o ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/10 "2014-09-06T12:49:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Fuck that! I’d take it to the Soccer field. Then the dog park! I do like the idea of chasing people in it, trying to catch them with the arm as they flee in panic. ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/11 "2014-09-06T18:18:36Z")
There is almost no more perfect quote than; Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds If you make it up here can I be your acolyte? If thine tree offend thee; pluck it out. Forestries 14:4 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/12 "2014-09-08T05:22:10Z")
It’s a good thing Arthur Anderson LLP didn’t have one during the Enron meltdown. There wouldn’t have been any paperwork left at all. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/13 "2014-09-08T14:05:12Z")
There would have been lots of paperwork, teeny tiny strips of paperwork all over the place. Then they could have arrested them for littering. 😃 Besides, how are you going to get the excavator into the freight elevator? Or would you just send **a lot** of paper airplanes to their death? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-santa-i-have-been-very-good-this-year-cool-destruction-equipment/697299/14 "2014-09-08T14:10:52Z")
They should call it the crazy, nasty-ass honey badger; that thing just does not give a shit, it takes what it wants and eats it.