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" ... It might surprise you to find out that until recently the Dewey Beach Police Department— which swells from 11 officers to 41 in the summer— had a trove of some 2,634 pieces of military equipment including two Humvees, a diesel troop carrier, a Unimog with a loader and backhoe, two five-ton dump trucks, dozens of assault packs, 50 ammunition chests and assorted military rifles and pistols. Despite the fact that calls to police are most often about loitering and that the town’s only homicide took place in 2012, Dewey police thought it necessary to amass acres of military gear that the federal government was giving away. In September the town forced the police to auction off the equipment. The proceeds amounted to $185,982. ... "
" ... Neale Lunderville, the current COO and incoming president of Vermont Gas, said the small gas utility company has been installing excess flow valves on its 850-mile distribution pipeline system to quickly shut off the flow of gas in the event of a gas line rupture caused by a backhoe or other piece of excavation equipment, both as a safety measure and as an environmental safeguard. “If there’s a strike on distribution line to a customer’s home, the excess-flow valve will kick in and close the line off,” he said in an interview. ... "
" ... The first is that we'd rather like to eliminate those low wage and low productivity jobs. It's a pretty low wage and low productivity job to be digging ditches by hand: we're all rather happier that these days there's one guy with a backhoe (and a well paid one bloke) replacing a team of twenty doing that job. The same with all sorts of other jobs, cutting wheat by hand for example, or digging potatoes, that were the mainstay of the economy of the past. Making it possible for us still to get these essential task done but economising on the human labour necessary to do them frees up humans to go and do other things. Higher value, more productive, more enjoyable things. ... "