I am not overly stressed by it or anything. i just did not want this to start a trend. If it was tounge in cheek then i am cool with it but this sets a precedent that i dont neccessarily(<--sp sux) want, I dont know about the rest of you

 

smashing TVs, or Benny's Bargin Basement Barn?

 

Bill, I think you'd have really enjoyed seeing when a few friends and I decided it was a good idea to pick up around 35-40 TV's from the back of a repair shop (they were throwing them out) and destroy each and every one in random ways ...sledge hammer, dragging behind moving vehicles, throwing out of moving vehicles, baseball bats, you name it we probably did it. Should have gotten it on video, but this was many many years ago.

Oh it was really fun when the EPA got involved because there were numerous broken TV's lying in the power line trails behind one friends' house. In order to prevent numerous $$ fines against him we all helped remove them. I remember it taking 4 or 5 vehicles to fit all these tv's in and bring to the local garbage disposal location to get rid of them. We finally arrive to the dump and the mutated, deformed, and cross eyed attendant asked why we had so many of them. A very intelligent friend of mine thought he was being quick to the draw and somewhat intelligent when he said "oh, my uncle owns a TV repair shop and we are helping him out." It's a good thing we got the last of the tv's out of my truck by the time he said this because the lady went nuts. Screaming at us she attempted to "explain" that we couldn't dispose of them here because it was for a business and this is for residential only, blah blah. So she began writing down all of our license plates. I wasn't going to have any of this and high tailed it outta there fast (think dirt road, dukes of hazzard style sliding sideways). Wow the joys of being young and thinking it's possible to get in trouble for nothing...As for the tv's that were in the other cars, they had to drive to a different garbage dump in a different town which was a fun 30 mile ride for them, that'll teach ya not to break TVs!

Sorry for the long story, no cliff notes here, just thought I'd share a stupid experience that related to TVs. If we didn't have posts like this in the local forums I would have never gotten to share my lame story that related to the subject...keepin' it real

bzyrice enjoy the smashing! Impatiently waiting for the youtube video

 

 

lol - Nice one Kenny!

 

sorry guys.. just wanted to post up that someone bought the TV a few days ago hahahah.. on orlandoforums.. he was an engineering student and wanted to see if he could fix it.. the TV was actually 32" not 25" so he was really happy when he saw it.. i told him about u guys and how i probably couldve gotten 10.00 for smashing the TV.. he just laughed..

he called me last night and told me he was able to get the TV working perfectly for less than 5.00 and 20minutes of work..

like i said.. one person's junk is another man's treasure!

he was lucky i was busy this past weekend and didn't have time to smash it.. lol

Rj

 

On an artistic conceptual note, I have always wanted to have a TV plugged into a very long extension cord and playing then drop it from at least 10 stories and video tape it with about 10 cameras all from different angle. The culminating shot would be when it hits the ground and explodes in a shower of sparks.

I know this has nothing to do with anything here, but I needed to express my creative side. People still think Cristo's idea of art is weird too.

<- starving artist's brain , stuck in the mind of a scientist.

 

TV's gone...

 

didn't David Letterman do stunts like this years ago?? i remember some late night talk show dropping stuff off the top of buildings based on peoples request.