Now if they just put them to good use instead, tsk!
police have often made grand claims that they "destroy confiscated contraband"
I seriously doubt that this actually happens in more than half of such cases, possibly less.
us: "Where's the proof you destroyed the evil object?"
police "Uh, well we destroyed it, so that proves it's gone"
us: "that proves nothing"
police: "exactly! destroyed things are nothing! We can't tell you how we did it, or where, that would be uh, dangerous"
Besides S3 is quite old (assuming what @buwaytress said is right), i doubt ROI is possible within short time.
well, if you steal the capital to begin with, you just have to outrun the running costs. "ROI" drops the "I", to become "ROZ", return on zilch
I imagine many old S3's got started up again in the past few weeks due to the difficulty drop, at least speculatively.