Smash - N - Shatter; new business opens that lets customers break stuff

[proud2BlibKansan]

Counting on the boom in recession anger

Laid-off. Bills piling up for his family of four. A stress-induced argument with his wife.

Paul Brown was just so steaming mad he could throw something.

So he did.

The drinking tumbler shattered against the wall, notching it but at least not going through the sliding glass door inches away.

Brown looked at the ruins and felt good. And then he felt inspired.

The former software engineer opened Smash-N-Shatter Thursday in downtown Lee’s Summit to provide this “cheap therapy” to other frustrated folks.

more . . . http://economy.kansascity.com/?q=node/2036

video: http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=4038715

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. This sounds like something going on behind the doors at GOP headquarters

[angstlessk]

2. I am glad they are making a bidness of it in Kansas..ALL the windows in Detroit

are already shattered!

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Actually this is in MO

[angstlessk]

8. though it might me MO...I am sure that artifical barrier is not that important

sorta like VA MD and DC...all are of the same sin...

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. There is much more of a border war here than in the DC area

Goes all the way back to the Civil War.

[mitchum]

3. How...American

"I'm going to destroy things because I'm frustrated, but that's okay; they can just use more resources to make more stuff to break"

[Arkana]

4. I actually like this idea--hell, I've reached the point on numerous occasions

where going postal with a baseball bat in a china shop would calm me down.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. I read about a school years ago that had a clay pigeon room

Kids could go in there and throw clay pigeons against the wall.

[miyazaki]

5. been doin' this in japan for years. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Woman in California came up with this a while ago....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102344514

Today, about 200 customers a week carry their anger to Sarah's Smash Shack in downtown San Diego. For around $25 a head, Lavely provides dishware, protective gear and the felt-tipped pens that people use to write on the plates they then violently fling at the walls.