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Fire truck & school houses to be sold online

Anybody want to buy a fire truck? How about some old elementary schools?

The Hokkaido town of Niikappu, with 5,900 residents, on Tuesday registered four elementary schools that closed last year on the Yahoo! online auction site’s section for government agencies.

The schools, built 20 to 30 years ago, each have grounds of around 10,000 square meters or more. Minimum sale prices of between 22 million and 68 million yen were set.

The video embedded in this post also shows a fire truck being sold by a city in Gunma prefecture. The truck was purchased in 1989 for 17 million yen, but will now be auctioned with a minimum sale price of 100,000 yen. Fire trucks and their powerful hoses can be pretty handy for cleaning, apparently.

For details on the auctions, check out this post at Asiajin.

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1 comment - What do you think? Posted by James - April 16, 2009 at 8:25 am

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Comment by Haf

2009-04-23 03:52:26

Wow, the school shown at the end was in a really good condition, much better than the school I attended in Germany.

The firetruck seems nice for cleaning, but the high pressure of the water can also break things, if not handled with care.

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