[Aussie Bloke]

I'd say a lot of teenagers have the mind of Beavis and Butthead and get their kicks out of breaking things, explosions, animal cruelty etc., an unfortunate trait for the immature and when they grow up maybe a lot of them will regret doing some of those things. These kids should get educated in school of the importance of antiques and preservation of technological history so there will at least may be a reduction in this sort of behaviour, though you'll still get a lot of Beavises and Buttheads out there that will not care and get high off destroying things.

Basically to them stuff like this is junk and they prefer the age of modern technology like the flat screen plasma TVs and technological history isn't of importance to them.

On the same note, I've noticed a lot of us collectors don't see much importance of the more modern TV sets, probably because they come in abundance because of more automated mass production and are practically throwaways if a jungle IC goes faulty as it's cheaper to buy a new set than pay a TV repairman to replace them, well I've come to think the later TV sets are also of technological historical importance in the evolution of TV and will in some decades time be also considered collectors items and they would eventually become scarce like the antique pre-70s sets. The old saying goes one mans trash is another mans treasure.

I for one have never smashed up TVs or electronics but in my teens I have been guilty of cannibalising a 1970s Grundig colour TV and a late 70s Sony colour TV for its components as both TVs were stuffed beyond easy repair anyhow. Back then I was interested in the components and re-using them for some electronic projects. I got rid of the set bodies after and just kept the components. I now regret it especially the Grundig set as it would of been a very rare set imported from Germany, but yeah values change. I now have a mid 70s Philips colour set sitting under my house, as I'm not as technically minded as you fellas I can't do much with it but at the same time I refuse to put it out for curbside pickup.

Anyhow it's one of those shit things us collectors have to face, and there's not much we can do to stop it unless we were there just when the destroying is about to take place.