# What is the best way to irrevocably destroy floppy disks?

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**Created:** [February 18, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-irrevocably-destroy-floppy-disks/979997 "2023-02-18T17:37:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-irrevocably-destroy-floppy-disks/979997/137 "2023-05-12T20:34:35Z")

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There’s always this method of getting yourself into trouble (8 year old thread):

> [@Stupid criminal of the decade](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-criminal-of-the-decade/740599/5):
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> I’ve told this before, but it’s always good. A daughter of a friend of mine married a slightly weird guy. OK; she was kinda weird too. Anyhow, he later applied for a job as a police dispatcher. Which screening process included a polygraph test. At the end there was one last question: “Do you want to tell us anything else?” Him: “Actually there is. I have a ginormous child porn collection on my PC at home.” The rest is history as they say. He completed his 10 year sentence last year. And pro…

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