Basically throwing away $21000

I'm a car girl and even I cringed.

I'm a car Stoner and even I cringed.

An import permit is basically a piece of paper that gives you permission to bring an item into a country (in this case a vehicle) frankly though they are a government pain in the ass and are about as easy to get as pulling a hippos tooth!

It's not theirs to sell.

well it's not theirs to destroy it. If they have the right to destroy it they might as well have the right to confiscate it and put to auction.

In most cases they do I'm not sure why the chose to crush it in this case unless the owner refused to sign over the title of ownership which he/she would have to do for the country to legally sell the bike at auction.