Dark City (Repairman Jack - Early Years 02)
“Tommy Ten Thumbs said. “It’s given me some ideas.”
They’d been watching a couple of the yard’s workers feed the chassis of stripped cars—two, sometimes three at a time—into the crusher where they got pancaked.
The chassis came from various chop shops here and there around Brooklyn and the Bronx. Stolen cars were much more valuable in pieces—as someone once said, the whole was much less valuable than the sum of its parts. Once all those valuable parts had been stripped away, you couldn’t leave the naked chassis lying around. Something had to be done with them, because should the cops raid a chop shop, they were evidence against it.
That was where Vinny came in. The chassis arrived at night and by the next afternoon Vinny had reduced them to unrecognizable tangles of steel. He sold the tangles for scrap, which would eventually end up in foundries that melted it back into new steel, some of which would find its way into new car chassis.
Before he dropped out of high school, Vinny remembe...red a biology teacher going on and on about “the miraculous cycle of life”—how deer ate plants and wolves ate deer, and then when wolves died their bodies rotted to fertilize plants which deer came and ate, and on and on.MoreLess
They’d been watching a couple of the yard’s workers feed the chassis of stripped cars—two, sometimes three at a time—into the crusher where they got pancaked.
The chassis came from various chop shops here and there around Brooklyn and the Bronx. Stolen cars were much more valuable in pieces—as someone once said, the whole was much less valuable than the sum of its parts. Once all those valuable parts had been stripped away, you couldn’t leave the naked chassis lying around. Something had to be done with them, because should the cops raid a chop shop, they were evidence against it.
That was where Vinny came in. The chassis arrived at night and by the next afternoon Vinny had reduced them to unrecognizable tangles of steel. He sold the tangles for scrap, which would eventually end up in foundries that melted it back into new steel, some of which would find its way into new car chassis.
Before he dropped out of high school, Vinny remembe...red a biology teacher going on and on about “the miraculous cycle of life”—how deer ate plants and wolves ate deer, and then when wolves died their bodies rotted to fertilize plants which deer came and ate, and on and on.MoreLess
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