Sin Smashers: Jakarta Police squash thousands of bottle of booze before Ramadan (PHOTOS)

 A road roller destroy thousands of bottles of alcohol ahead of the holy month of Ramadan at a police station in Jakarta on June 15, 2015. Photo: AFP/Adek Berry

If you’re the sort of person who enjoys alcohol, the following pictures may disturb you.

On Monday, Agence France-Presse photographer Adek Berry took these photos of Jakarta Police laying thousands of bottle of alcohol out on a blue tarp and then smashing them with a road roller.

The police also destroyed several packages of marijuana as part of the photo op for the media.

The drugs and booze were destroyed as part of the police’s pre-Ramadan crackdown on sinful substances. Ramadan officially begins in Indonesia tomorrow, June 18.

 Police made neat labels for the alcohol (miras) and  marijuana (ganja) they are about to destroy. Photo: AFP/Adek Berry

A worker helps lay thousands of bottle of alcohol out on a blue tarp. Photo: AFP/Adek Berry

The carpet of booze is almost ready for the crushinating. Photo: AFP/Adek Berry

The sound you hear in your head is not thousands of bottles being crushed, but the cries of hundreds of drinkers crying out in pain, as if there was a great disturbance in the booze force. Photo: AFP/Adek Berry


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