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04-30-2010, 06:43 AM
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TVs and mules don't mix!
I picked this 1983 Grundig 19" tabletop off the curb, it was in perfect working conditions and i was going to keep it, but... it happened AGAIN!!!
I left it in my barn for several days as i had no room in my TV storage room, then, this morning, i forgot to lock the barn's door... the mule opened the latch and got into the barn and while he was trashing everything in search for food, he toppled the set, then he probably startled and kicked it! The kick smashed the audio and chroma board and b+ regulator heatsink, cracked the chassis and bent its metal frame, the CRT neck snapped beneath the yoke and the cabinet and back cover got smashed too, the set is a total loss, i'm going to keep the speakers and throw out the rest of it, He was lucky the CRT didn't implode on him! The set before the mishap:  The smashed boards, bent frame and heatsink:  smashed back cover:  The little bastard: 
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04-30-2010, 07:32 AM
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"Hehehehehe...That'll show HIM, storin' TVs in MY barn...." Here in the states, the old-timers say a mule will wait 40 years to get to a place where he can "Do It To You"...Looks like you didn't have to wait quite that long...
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04-30-2010, 12:03 PM
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He's a friendly looking old mule. Reminds me of myself...
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04-30-2010, 08:05 PM
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LMAO @ "the little bastard" -- this has been a very humourous thread!
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05-01-2010, 06:06 PM
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The "little bastard" also loves to bust windshield wipers, he did it to my car twice and he also did it to my dad's brand new car, he just bites them off.
Apart from cars, TVs and other breakable objects, he's actually a rather quiet, friendly mule and he's very safe to have around. Don't get me started on the damages done by my goats! they once managed to eat a big chunk of veneer off a 1930s console radio i left unattended outdoors for a couple of minutes.
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05-01-2010, 07:16 PM
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Don't even get me started on GOATS...Friend of mine had 3 miniature goats... Their trick was stripping interiors of cars...Fred refused to believe they were doing it, he was on the phone denying it to one of his complaining neighbors, when he looked out the window, & one of 'em was on the top of his brand-new Cadillac, stripping the vinyl roof off in big pieces....The goats went to live at another farm, where there were no cars around...
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05-01-2010, 09:09 PM
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I guess Mules and bobcats don't mix either I have a video of a mule killing a bobcat
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05-02-2010, 12:48 AM
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Well it's no secret that I enjoy 80s music so remember the Timbuk3 video from '86 with the tv set on a camel in the desert? (futures so bright I gotta wear shades...)lol yep i remembered.
  
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05-02-2010, 07:16 AM
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I had a friend whose neighbor had a donkey. The donkey used to come over to eat the grass in my friend's yard and crap all over the place, so my friend complained. So the neighbor got him back and tied him to his porch post. Donkey liked my friend's grass so much he pulled the porch down and came on over.
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05-02-2010, 12:22 PM
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Well, this mishap has brought me some luck in the end...
This morning i went to drop off the smashed Grundig set at the bulky waste facility, and came back home with a nice Phonola 4-tube hybrid b/w from 1972  I haven't tried to power it up yet as it got rained on, it's drying on the furnace right now.
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05-02-2010, 08:14 PM
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Quote:
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff."
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05-03-2010, 07:43 AM
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I got a B&W tube portable once that had been sitting in the rain for who knows how long, plastic case with all those cooling slots on top so the rain got right in there. After I dried it out it worked fine but every now and then it would shut down and then come back on after a minute. Probably a tube heater intermittent but I never got around to it and eventually junked it.
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