Your car is garbage, so go crush one in North Bay, eh?

Bonjour du Nord — c'est Sudbury, on lâche pas. Let's go. Voyons donc, have you *heard* about this new place opening up near North Bay? You can pay money to operate heavy machinery and just… destroy a car. Like, *crush* it. With an excavator. MASHinery, they’re calling it. And while it's not strictly *in* Sudbury, ben là, it's close enough that everyone up here is talking about it.

It's called MASHinery and it opens Saturday, July 25th. The founder, Ken Sim, he just figured, hey, people want to smash stuff, why not give 'em a chance to do it with heavy equipment? You get to climb into the cab of a real excavator, operate the controls, and just… go to town on an old car. For real. And you know what? A part of me, the part that drives on the Kingsway every single day and sees the potholes, the part that's been stuck behind a slow driver on Paris Street, *that* part of me gets it. It's a release, eh? It’s like, a very Northern Ontario kind of stress relief, if you ask me.

### Why This is Peak Northern Ontario

* It taps into that industrial spirit we have here. We're all about heavy machinery and getting hands-on.

* It's a novel way to blow off steam when you're feeling like the world is just grinding you down.

* It's not exactly *environmentally friendly*, but it's using up old cars, eh? There's a certain logic to it.

I mean, how many times have you driven past a headframe, or seen the massive trucks up at Dynamic Earth, and thought, "Man, I wonder what it's like to run one of those?" Well, now you can, sort of. Maybe it won't be crushing ore, but crushing a car? That’s pretty close to home for us up here. It's the kind of quirky thing that makes you proud to be from this neck of the woods, even if it's just down the road a bit.

Bonjour du Nord — c'est Sudbury, on lâche pas. Let's go.

You know, the morning crew has some *thoughts* on this one — catch 'em live at mornings.live.