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"Hundreds of people have appeared at an auction with a difference to snap up a wide array of unused items from last year's fight against the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
From Portaloos to plastic buckets, sandbags to boiler suits and even a coal bunker and a cattle crush, 500-plus lots went under the hammer in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
A quid was enough to secure a new desk while a portable toilet (unused) set buyers back around £350.
The paraphernalia was put up for auction by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which said it was more cost-effective to sell the unused items than transport them to elsewhere in the country."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_696370.html?menu=
What is a "cattle crush"? :splat:
From Portaloos to plastic buckets, sandbags to boiler suits and even a coal bunker and a cattle crush, 500-plus lots went under the hammer in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
A quid was enough to secure a new desk while a portable toilet (unused) set buyers back around £350.
The paraphernalia was put up for auction by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which said it was more cost-effective to sell the unused items than transport them to elsewhere in the country."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_696370.html?menu=
What is a "cattle crush"? :splat:
