Kill your television: Man shoots TV in DTV-fueled anger

[KamaAina]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/124067

You suddenly find that your television, which worked fine up until February 17, is now showing nothing but static on your favorite channel. Do you:

a) Turn the TV on and off again?
b) Call the cable company and/or the local station in question to see what's up?
c) Obtain a firearm and proceed to shoot multiple holes in the TV set?

I probably needn't tell you which choice a 70-year-old Missouri man selected on Friday, after he couldn't get his DTV converter box to work. According to reports, after the Joplin resident lost his cable and fussed with the DTV box for a bit, he gave up, and eventually turned to the oldest of analog solutions -- good old-fashioned firepower -- to get the television to start working.

This in fact did not work and the man was arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm.

Additional details on the story are scarce, but Broadcasting & Cable has the inevitable conclusion to the ordeal: "According to the man's wife, he had been drinking."

Drinking? Really? What was her first clue? :shrug:

Besides, isn't it obvious that none of this would ever have happened if the TV had been armed? :sarcasm:

[abq e streeter]

1. "So I bought a 44 magnum , it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis

I just let it blast
Till my TV lay in pieces there at my feet
And they busted me for disturbin the almighty peace
The judge said what do got for your defense son
57 channels and nothin on"




Bruce S.