No One Seems To Know Why Audi Shipped Thousands Of Cars With The Same VINIf you were to spot someone furtively stuffing bottles of ammonia, large blocks of Swiss cheese, and an embalmed marmot into a large duffel bag while looking around nervously, you’d probably think that something was up. You wouldn’t really have any idea what, exactly, was up, but it sure as hell feels like some kind of fuckery is going on. That’s the same feeling I get when I read about Audi building thousands of cars with the same Vehicle Identification Number. The German business journal Handelsblatt wrote that, while state prosecutors were investigating Audi’s corporate files for Dieselgate- related documents, they also discovered evidence that, “thousands of Audis exported to China, Korea or Japan may have the same vehicle identification number.”As you know, a car’s VIN is supposed to be a unique 1.

Clearly, producing thousands of cars with identical VINs is not normally done. If a handful of cars were built with the same VIN you could likely attribute that to some sort of organizational or mechanical error. But thousands of cars, all with the same number? An error of that magnitude would be extremely improbable. The real question here is not how it happened, but why? If we assume that the duplication of all those VINs was intentional, what possible purpose could that serve?

Dog's Purpose is filing second at the box office behind M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split' after a video controversy concerning a German Shepherd. A Dog's Purpose A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners. The canine seen in TMZ's disturbing video posted earlier on Wednesday came from Birds & Animals Unlimited, says the animal rights' group.

Since these cars were all sent to Asian markets, could it be some strange way to get around import restrictions? If you have to list the VINs for every car sent to a given region, but one VIN could refer to thousands of cars instead of one, that’d be a pretty nifty hack, I suppose. Could it be something to confuse possible future recalls? Napping Princess (2017) Free Download there. What the hell is going on?

What’s your angle, Audi? The experts are baffled as well, with Handelsblatt reporting that: Investigators admitted that they are mystified about what purpose would be served by producing vehicles with the same VIN number. Audi, of course, is playing dumb, with a spokesperson saying: We are not aware of the fact the VIN numbers have been issued more than once. Because, of course they’re not. I reached out to Audi as well, and will update the story if and when I get a response back. In the meantime, we may as well guess about what the hell Audi could be up to. My current theory is that, in partnership with the Large Hadron Collider, Audi has figured out how to build cars in the Multiverse, and are just building a car once, but across thousands of parallel universes, and then taking those cars and selling them all here, at a massive manufacturing cost savings.

The drawback is that, since they’re all the same car from parallel universes, they all have the same VIN. And maybe one or two use blood for oil, or something. Anyway, guess away! We have as much chance as figuring out what the fuck these guys are up to as anyone!

Original post, Friday: A Dog’s Purpose producer Gavin Polone said he’s had a change of heart after seeing the full video of a distressed German shepherd on set.

Whistleblowers invariably fear for their jobs, but this footage was bravely made public after PETA exposed cruelty to animals at the film’s reported dog supplier”, the group said in a statement sent to Deadline by Moira Colley, Senior Media Officer. He says the dog was not in danger and believes agendas are being carried out for different purposes — that whomever cut the video and made it appear the dog was in danger and “probably sold it for money” to fulfill’s PETA’s stated agenda of ensuring no animal is ever used on a TV or movie set again. Also, producer Amblin Entertainment clarified that the incident that occurred was not the second unit as first thought but rather “a reduced main unit” crew shooting that day. Asked by Deadline if that is PETA’s stated goal, the organization’s SVP Lisa Lange said, “Yes. With all we know about how they are kept in cages, the abuse that takes place during training and how they are treated on film sets, we believe that the animals should be CGI’d always.” (That, of course, would be cost prohibitive for most productions.) The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been targeting the animal supplier/handler Birds & Animals Unlimited for a long while.

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One thing many of those involved with the film have questioned is why someone waited 1. TMZ, only two weeks before the release of the film in theaters nationwide January 2. I know the movie helps to benefit animals because it shows the deep relationships that forms between people and dogs.”Added Polone, who said he viewed the entire thing yesterday: “I looked at the video of all of this. He came up and he was fine. If your stated goal is to never use any animal on a movie set ever again, then they are trying to use the video that someone probably sold to TMZ to get a commitment for that.“I’m not saying there were no mistakes made, but the whole thing is becoming untrue and unfair, and I feel like they and the person who cut the cellphone video together are using the media for their own agendas. It’s a cellphone video that was cut in a certain way.

There are so many things that you don’t see . There is a (scuba) diver under the water. You don’t see the safety people on the other side.“The person who cut it probably wanted to sell it, and it doesn’t sell if it looks like the dog is OK. Whoever was in control of the set should have told them to stop, but the dog was not in danger and the dog was and is OK.”The video that ran Wednesday on TMZ has caused a public relations nightmare for Amblin and Universal Pictures, as it has gone viral.

The author of the book and co- screenwriter W. Bruce Cameron, who saw the full footage the day of the shoot, also said the edited video “mis- characterized” what happened on the set and went on Facebook to release the following statement: First I want to thank everyone—and there have been literally thousands of you—who have written to express support. Your words and thoughts mean the world to us. I found the video we’ve all seen to be shocking because when I was on set, the ethic of everyone was the safety and comfort of the dogs. If the people who shot and edited the video thought something was wrong, why did they wait fifteen months to do anything about it, instead of immediately going to the authorities?

I have since viewed footage taken of the day in question, when I wasn’t there, and it paints an entirely different picture. The written commentary accompanying the edited video mischaracterizes what happened.