Have you ever hated a tool or appliance so much that you physically destroyed it?

[Jeff Higgins]

I once had this anvil that really pissed me off. I gave it the beating of its lifetime...

[Overpaid Slacker]

You can mow the sun? I've got to renew my SciAm and PopMech subscriptions.

Not so much tools or appliances, but video game controllers have frighteningly short life expectancies in my hands.

Oh, and two Motorola StarTacs -- one I cracked in half along the hinge and then bit through. In truth, it probably wasn't the phone, but Bell Atlantic.

JP

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Overpaid Slacker

You can mow the sun?
JP

He caught me again.

Originally Posted by KC911

Only in CA ...I didn't know there was such a thing...

Lotsa those:

[Red Baron]

My wife always has a hard time understanding why I cuss and beat the living **** out of something that has no feeling. I've told her that usually instantly feel better and it's the first step to recovery...

[Joe Bob]

Anything made by HP deserves a beating.....as does the tech support guy named "Bob" with the Indian accent.

[scottbombedout]

Originally Posted by procon

After beating my last PC flat in the backyard with a shovel, I pissed on it.

nice one, this is what we have been missing. After you destroy something you gotta piss on it .

[johndglynn]

I tore a Linksys wireless router off the wall and beat the living daylights out of it with a 100-year old housebrick, the useless pile of blue plastic had been driving me 'round the feckin bend for months.

It was so satisfying to smash that thing to smithereens with proper old technology, I would nearly buy a used one on eBay just to give another member of its family the same treatment. THAT'S HOW BLOODY CROSS IT MADE ME!!!

[buttjoint]

Bought a nice new hose at home depot, brought it home and it proceded kink every time I tried to use it. I e-mail the company that made the piece of crap then go outside, Look at the hose for a moment, Said to myself why not, I cut the thing in one inch pieces and felt real good about it !

[CurtEgerer]

Ever wonder what's in an iPod? Here you go. Sweet when they're working. Not so much when they don't. I'm on my 4th and it's beginning to randomly freeze .......

[Mr_Wizard]

You know when you are pissed, a push lawn mower can be used in the hammer throw. Man that felt really really good.

[vash]

i chucked that damn two pronged porsche fan tool into the weeds. gave another one away. i almost tossed a nikon rangefinder up against the bart (train) station last night. only thing that stopped me, was that i just put a new lithium battery into it. actually, been pretty agro lately. two days earlier i tossed my bow (archery) case into a dumpster, after it pinched me for the hundreth time. i punted it into the front yard first.

gotta breath out blue, breath in pink.

[gprsh924]

One day my junior of high school we were driving around and saw tv's on someone's curb for garbage pick-up. We stopped, threw them both in the back of my buddy's truck and went back to his house. Later that night I got to take a wooden Louisville slugger to the screen of one. The sound of it shattering remains one of the coolest sounds I have ever heard.

[TyFenn]

A while back, I had a SAAB 9000S that I affectionately called F***head (seriously). Well one day the radio on F'head started beeping...and then every once in a while, it would continue. After a night of sipping carbonated beverages, I took out the cigarette lighter and burned the ca-ca out of the face of the radio...I mean bad. A few months later I found out that it was the computer telling me my battery was about to die. Silly, just silly...but man, did it feel good.

About a year or so later I lost control of the car at around 70mph, slid out of control, over a curb and into a cement bridge. The car bounced of the bridge and back into the road. Of course, being young, I didn't need my seat belt. Miracously (my spelling stinks today) I walked away with only a bruise under my eye...and the cops wondering what two rifles were doing in the back seat. I wish I had the picture of the radiator explosion that was about shoulder level. If I remember correctly, the police estimated I hit the bridge at roughly 50 mph. While that does sound about right, I don't think I would've been able to walk away from that one.

The car saves my life and I burn it for trying to warn me...not at the same time however.

yes, I'm a piece of work.

[450knotOffice]

Milt, great story. You had me LMAO.

[varmint]

every year a few friends and i collect our worthless scanners, answering machines, cel phones, etc, and shoot them out in the desert.

this is my old hp laptop. 3 rounds of 9mm

[BlueSideUp]

I love the struggle and final triumph over crappy workmanship, that's awesome.

I can't think of anything I've destroyed in anger off the top of my head....I have nearly thrown my cell phone when trying to use a voice recognition call center. I swear I will kick the marketing guy who thought that up in the nuts!

[Moneyguy1]

Garret:

I used to pick up tvs on the side of the road, fix 'em and sell 'em. Most back 20 years ago failed for simple reasons.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by varmint

every year a few friends and i collect our worthless scanners, answering machines, cel phones, etc, and shoot them out in the desert.

this is my old hp laptop. 3 rounds of 9mm

Damn that must have felt good! I had one of those that was a total POS. I'd also like to give the same treatment to their Indian "tech support".

[JeremyD]

Weedeater, floor jack - probably the weedeater was the best - wrapped it around a tree. then broke off the shaft, then beat it with a 10 pound sledge.

[VaSteve]

Jeez. This thread make me feel normal. I have broken a lot of stuff like that. More than my fair share of phones after talking to women. Go figure.