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Slots Get Environmentally Destroyed

Slots are usually broken up with axes and crowbars and placed in a city dump somewhere when they have either been seized as part of a raid, or are just past their prime. However, the QC Environmental Protection and Waste Disposal (EPWD) has a more environmentally friendly way of disposing of the slots, so they asked if they could handle them.

The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) agreed and thus only “symbolically” destroyed the slots at their headquarters in Camp Karingal. The EPWD then took the slots away on a truck, and the QCPD paid them P100 for every one of the slots that they took.

This is the first time that the slots have been handled this way, instead of them destroying them by themselves. The slots are actually video karena machines, which look and sound just like slots. You can bet as low as P1 on the machine which has an electric horse, and if you win you will get all of the coins in the machine. However, since minors can play them, all of the slots are illegal.

The slots will be taken to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority grounds in Zambalas, as the stuff that is inside the machines is considered hazardous and could affect the environment in a negative way. Even though the slots that were destroyed were confiscated, no arrests were made. When the raids were conducted no one was around for them to charge.

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