[bgadow]

I did throw a 19" color crt off the roof once but the neck had already been broken. I think the tube is still laying out there in the yard...My favorite way to dispose of a tv set was to set it on fire, and then just stand back. Did this to probably 4 or 5, the last one was a big GE color console from the 80s. While I was standing there watching my girlfriend walked up, I knew what was going to happen but she didn't. The phosphor would start to turn dark on the edges of the screen, then-LOOK OUT! Within a minute there would be a very healthy BOOM! She didn't like me much the rest of the day! I could never get a good boom any other way-the ones I threw in the dumpster didn't make much noise.

I used to love when David Letterman would throw things off of a 12 story building (or however tall it was). The one I most remember was when they sat a 19" color set face up on the ground airing the competition (at that time) the CBS Late Movie (I think is what they called it). He dropped, from the top of the building, a bowling ball right through the screen. Awesome.

Apparently at one time the accepted method of diposing of a picture tube was to throw it in the river, as both my father and a teacher I had mentioned finding one floating when they were a kid. My father hit his with a boat paddle; the teacher carried his onto a bridge and dropped it off.