http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20101117/SHE0101/101117050/1062&located=rss

He was not too fond of Bristol Palin's dancing, so he shot the TV!

So what ? Elvis did that years ago...(grin) An' Elvis' weapon of choice was a .45...

Yep, I believe Elvis blasted his tv more than once. In Priscilla's book, she said he shot the tv with a .357 magnum after seeing Robert Goulet perform on the Mike Douglas Show. He really hated singers whom he felt were "all technique, but no soul" or something to that effect. There's at least one of Elvis's victims on display at Graceland.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4257354853_0d34a57a1f.jpg

Question-is that crt that Elvis shot a bonded-face crt? Just curious to know what one of those looks like when compromised like that....

Well, I believe this one was a 25'' RCA color set. Not sure what type of CRT it was, but I'd imagine that someone around here knows. Actually, I just noticed that a handgun is also on display in this picture. It may be one of Elvis's beloved .45 1911's, like the one he presented to Nixon.

So if you've got a lot of money and are a 'character' you can get away with stuff like that and people will pay money to see it. You or I would get kicked around the block.

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Remember the story about the TV cable installer who told the customer he'd have to return because he needed to go get a longer drill bit to go through the trailer floor? Trailer dweller pulls out his .45 and blows a nice hole in the floor. Cable got run.

What an idiot!!!

I wonder if he is related to this idiot :D

www.kare11.com/news/whatsup/whatsup_article.aspx?storyid=539986

Ah yes, a man after my own heart. I once heard a story about a lawman, a sheriff in some small Arizona town I think, who used a shotgun on his PC. Two blasts right in the disc drives, and the computer was no more; he was quoted as saying, "that's all I was going to put up with from that little %#$*&!."
I also heard of a place called The Bullet Stop, a specialized shooting range, where a person can bring in any appliance that is giving him trouble, and then choosing from a large selection of firearms (the Thompson submachine gun is a popular choice,) execute the offending device. I would imagine that whoever came up with this idea did very well off it, and probably was able to retire at the age of forty.

This story reminds me about the guy who couldn't get his converter box to work:
http://gear.ign.com/articles/955/955940p1.html

http://files.g4tv.com/images/blog/2009/02/23/633709928847215637.jpg

Probably didn't plug it in. :yes:

The break pattern on the set above looks identical to the Elvis set. :scratch2:
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I see no moral problem at all in putting an inanimate object out of your misery; but there may be legal issues involved with "discharging a firearm within city limits."

A less severe form of this was when I worked summers for Western Electric and the foreman had a hammer to "fix" intermittent relays - "Now it's not intermittent any more!"

People shotting TVs, Blah blah blah.... This is America! Everyone has a TV and most folks have guns, so something is bound to happen sooner or later......It is when TV's start shooting people that we need to worry!:uzi::yikes::para:

PS: I think JR is on to something....

If Elvis really was alive, he'd watch some judge or reality TV and RCA would never have had to sell out. I just wish he had some of those Funai POS tv sets to shoot instead of a good RCA.

Morons with guns..... they should all be shot.

I think "Funai" translates out to "Please Shoot me, I'm Crap..."

I think "Funai" translates out to "Please Shoot me, I'm Crap..."

LOL dont get me started on Funai.

Funai sets use stupid zener diodes DIRECTLY ON THE RECTIFIER with NO RESISTOR.

surge comes, poof goes the diode, boom goes your rectifier, and then fuse.

I got a funai, not a bad picture, except for the bizarre "game" and "normal" priture settings.... I guess I need a remote, or the setup menu to make any changes...?

I bought an old 1960s era GE consolette back in the mid '80s & blew it away up at a local "dump"...Me & my buddy John just left it there, this was in May-June, & by Labor Day, there was literally NOTHING left of it but a pile of Doodle-Dust... We DID pull the tubes outta it & plink 'em off the top of it from 25-30' away...Not as easy as it sounds...We used my Uzi, a few .22s, & a couple of Hawken Black Powder rifles...Big Fun !

Ha ! I never actually shot a tv with a firearm but my arsenal has included things like crobars, baseball bats, cinder blocks(they sailll thru the crt face:D), the iron trumpet they use to hold cars up with, etc. Many 1980s stuff has met its demise at my hand...now i'd never do that for a variety of reasons, however.
Best set I ever killed was probably a late 70s color tabletop Sylvania which i'd absolutely love to own now.
by the way I had a Samsung 19" from ~~1996 that had 'game' and 'movie' presets in the menu. To set your own levels you had to make a 'custom' preset. Annoying...but they probably figured it was innovative back then. Proliferation of jungle ICs!

There was an incident in England decades ago in which a man shot out the screen of his TV in anger because his family didn't greet him when he came home from work that afternoon -- just kept their eyes glued to the program they were watching as if he didn't exist. This was a true story, documented in an old DIY TV repair book of the 1950s-'60s, and believe me, it was something I knew I would never forget.

Neither, I imagine, would the man's family. He had every right in the world to be upset that his family didn't acknowledge his presence in his own house after he came home from work, but to shoot the television was, I believe, rather extreme.

The best one still has to be the story of the bar back in the '70s that held a raffle every week to see who would have the honor of putting a Brick thru Howard Cosell's face on Monday Night Football...

Morons with guns......I agree.... Gune are not toys and most ppl do not have the responsibility to own one!