Oh the Horror!

[carianoff]

This needs translation, but i cried when i saw these images.

something like ""Many camaras were touched by the packing and little taken care of badly during the transport. Canon decidio to finish even finishing the task instead of putting them to price on sale reduced.""

Here is a tease.
http://dl.ziza.ru/other/062008/09/transport/002_transport.jpg

:(:(:(more here http://ziza.es/2008/06/09/1.html

[Pete]

Been posted before several times.

Basically, they're returns that are uneconimcal to repair. So Canon staff have to smash them up with hammers to prevent them from being obtained and sold by scammers.

[carianoff]

Crap, I didn't see it. it just showed up on that news blog today so i thought it was new, sorry for being redundant

[Pete]

Crap, I didn't see it. it just showed up on that news blog today so i thought it was new, sorry for being redundant

You're right, it's todays news, but this happens every now and then. I can't see any of the older threads, but it happens.

[Maddog12]

It takes a special breed of citizens to work in Canon's "Lens Smashing Department"

[carianoff]

You're right, it's todays news, but this happens every now and then. I can't see any of the older threads, but it happens.

Yeah I'm not a power user like you are, so im bound to hic-up once and a while. At least i didn't post an image about that EF 1200mm that you used to see every few weeks.

[KevinAldrich]

It takes a special breed of citizens to work in Canon's "Lens Smashing Department"

I don't think I could cope with the emotional impact of the job. :(

I think this was last posted only a few days ago though.

Edit: yep (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=516302&highlight=months)