In retail you see stock intentionally damaged and thrown out. It’s to prevent brand damage or some such crap.

Stuff like this happens with excess food too. https://sixfootjournalism.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/kathmandu...

When my city opened a new airport, they had plans to redevelop the old one for other uses. I remember hearing that, in order to stop people from fighting to keep the old airport around, the city quickly destroyed a section of the runways with dynamite. Supposedly this would make it cost-prohibitive to try to use it as an airport again.

A similar thing happened in Berlin. Once BER/EDDB opened, they closed down TXL and said it's still on "standby" when in reality they already decommissioned and sold off lots of the interior.

This happened to miggs in Chicago. And was more about letting the license run out.

> Daley first shut the field down in 1996 with the intention of turning the airport into parkland, in order to boost slumping Chicago real estate values and shore up political support by closing a symbol of elite privilege. > https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/day-shut-down-meigs...