Sad end for a roundie console
 

Was watching some Beavis and Butthead shows on Youtube, and this was seen in a video. Skateboarders having trashed a roundie console. :no: :thumbsdn: :nono: :sigh: :tears:

Don't know what brand it was.

Man, that's sad. That roundie could be an RCA if I had to guess. RIP.... :(

I can't tell what brand that is but I doubt RCA. Maybe Philco or an even more rare brand like Setchel Carlson or Packard Bell.
Looks like an extremely rare TV and now I may never watch Beavis and Butthead ever again. This time they really went too far!

That a Sucidal Tendencies video?

Looks like a generic CTC-15 clone. Heck, there's how many million out there.

Coulda been a '4 or a '2....

The bezel looks like a sears silvertone to me. I wonder why some people just have to destroy tv's. It is like they hate them for some reason???
Ed

From the lack of tuner knobs or other controls on the front, I'd guess it's a gutted/empty cabinet, perhaps even with a simple pane of glass put in place of the CRT.

That'd be a lot safer for a stunt like that anyway.

I know what you mean. Look on YouTube at the number of videos there are of TV's getting smashed. A great deal of them are smashed by kids who appear to have the IQ level of a rock.

I think probably kids like to destroy TV sets because they think that this act will produce nice and big explosions.

A couple months ago I saw a guy shooting a modern set with a pistol on youtube. He even wrote on the screen, I hate old tv's. Vary strange indeed.
I think he was the same dude that posted a picture of them burning a round rca set on ak a few years ago.
Ed

One can only hope that as a last act of defiance, these noble old veterans somehow manage to send a shard or 2 of glass into these young miscreants' eyes, teaching them a valuable lesson...

I wondered when that BnB video 'd be mentioned on here...

I've helped smash a few TVs in my time, but they've only ever been low-end b/w late 80s portables or 70s-vintage non-rare UK sets. We of course did it for the implosions - at long range. (after the first time when my (already!) totally-blind mate dropped a breezeblock through the upturned screen from above his head - highly dangerous)

Damn straight!!

I WOULDN'T want anyone to go permanently blind over such shenanigans, but a trip to the emergency room coupled with a long, painful recuperation somehow seems in order...

reuploaded the horror...
http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...8&d=1307343392

That looks nauseating, I won't even watch it. However, here's "Black Hole Sun" from 1994, Soundgarden, with a 21 inch General Electric tv with the coaxial speaker on the bottom. Enjoy!
<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3mbBbFH9fAg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Let's try this then
 

Soundgarden 1994 "Black Hole Sun" General Electric Danish Modern 21 inch b & w with the coaxial speaker in the bottom. Just muck through this, you won't be disappointed. Not with the television, maybe the rest of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg

Yeah this destroying tvs fad on youtube is something else. There's one where they throw a Motorola Works In The Drawer console off the balcany inside of the house all the while laughing.:no::tears::nono::thumbsdn::screwy:

I can only hope that Motorola destroyed their hardwood floor and cost them a lot of money to fix the floor for their stupid actions.

And the other punky antics of these skateboarders. They are in parks running into people all the time. And hard to get around them in your chair, got dumped one time by a skater who caused me a cracked tailbone and damaged a new chair (was over $500 to repair it). Many are severely rude and disrespectful of authority.

FYI: the TV set does not get whacked in this video.

after looking at that, i need a drink...

I would rather see a computer set on Youtube thrown off a balcony, then watch THAT on broadcast TV. With an antenna.

Every time someone watches one of those videos it runs the counter up and encourages yet another moron to get his camera say "hold my beer; watch this"