Heres A Youtube Video That Would Make You TV Collectors Cry!

[Rental Limo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjyL3IJx8c

What a disgrace!

[radiotvnut]

No, not cry. It makes me want to take a swing at this idiot and start using language on him not suitable for church! What a dumb moron! A once nice Zenith Chromacolor II console now destroyed! I should create a youtube account just so I can tell this idiot off! And, he's not the only one on there doing crap like this. There is plenty of it going on; but, I think this is the oldest set I've seen so far that was destroyed. Here we are as collectors that would gladly take this set and we have retards like this smashing them! I'll bet he's one that has a $4000 plasma TV hanging on his wall. Oh, I need to stop now before I really get fired up and wind up getting banned from AK!

P.S. - Hey Zenithfan, you need to get that LCD TV "repair" on youtube. I mean, fair is fair. They smash the quality old stuff we're looking for; so, we smash their modern technology that they think is so great!

[zenith2134]

Haha, Zenithfan should post a video of a LCD's funeral

Youtube has a bunch of these videos (unfortunately) and yeah they suck

[Trance88]

DAmn. Poor old Zenith. It should only take about 2 seconds to destroy an LCD flat panel TV.

[waltchan]

I was surprised that the smasher did not smash the picture tube first.

[waltchan]

Not surprising really. I think the very worst vintage TV smasher I've seen was a music video performed by rock band Blink 182, where Mark Hoppus smashed more than 10 vintage Zenith Chromocolor IIs, like this one on YouTube, in one row with a baseball bat.

[Kiwick]

notice the chunks of white glass falling on the idiot... that's not from the CRT, he accidentally smashed the ceiling light!

[Sandy G]

Well, I left him a message & told him- "Nice goin', Dooshbag-There are guys who woulda give you a hundred bux for that TV...Hope you're happy..."

[grumpy]

He swings the sledge like a wuss.

[similost]

He wore the proper safety gear at least...

Seriously.. I see these TV's (Zenith and Chromacolor) all the time at yard and garage sales around this area, and the people can't even pay people to take them away.. I just don't understand the anger about it when there appear to be so many available and no one takes them. Can't keep them forever waiting for a collector..

[drh4683]

I've been there before. Ive had my share of destroying stuff as a kid who didn't know any better. I laughed pretty good when the moron smashed the light fixture above his head by accident.
My most regretful incident was with my friend and I back around 7th grade. We went to the marklund resale shop by his house and found a nice 20" space command 600 table TV in the dumpster from around 1970. For some unknown reason, we brought it back to his house and put it on the ground next to the garage. Instead of trying it out to see what could be done with it, we decided to smash the hell out of it with a sledge hammer. I don't think we even plugged it in to see what it did. Thats one of my most regretful moments of all time. Why I did that was beyond me. I probably would have kept it if it wasn't for my friend. He probably persuaded me to smash it up. I was the only one who liked the TV's, they normally just joined in for the heck of it, but really didn't care. It took another 10 years until I found a similar TV at an estate sale......This video reminds me of that day.

[AUdubon5425]

I left a message saying, "Too bad - there's folks that would have given you money for a Chromacolor II."

The smasher replied, "So how much is it worth? It was worth alot (sic) more to me in pieces, since i had to carry it down two flights of steps either way."

I really don't know what to say except that it is a sad commentary on the values and ethics of this generation. I mean, come on, he used just as much energy destroying the thing and then cleaning up his mess (assuming he bothered) as he would have carrying it down two lousy flights of stairs. And let's not forget the light fixture - hope he pulls the fuse first

Hell, I'm 5'4" and I carried two bedroom sets, a rocking chair and two tables (all solid wood) down twelve flights of stairs after Katrina because someone was kind enough to give them to me.

So I assumed the worst and replied, "Please forgive me - I was not aware of your physical limitations. Two flights of stairs would be pushing it for someone in your condition." Now, physical or mental, that's debatable.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

I left a message saying, "Too bad - there's folks that would have given you money for a Chromacolor II."

The smasher replied, "So how much is it worth? It was worth alot (sic) more to me in pieces, since i had to carry it down two flights of steps either way."

I really don't know what to say except that it is a sad commentary on the values and ethics of this generation. I mean, come on, he used just as much energy destroying the thing and then cleaning up his mess (assuming he bothered) as he would have carrying it down two lousy flights of stairs. And let's not forget the light fixture - hope he pulls the fuse first

Hell, I'm 5'4" and I carried two bedroom sets, a rocking chair and two tables (all solid wood) down twelve flights of stairs after Katrina because someone was kind enough to give them to me.

So I assumed the worst and replied, "Please forgive me - I was not aware of your physical limitations. Two flights of stairs would be pushing it for someone in your condition." Now, physical or mental, that's debatable.

That's the problem, that kid smashing the TV doesn't know the value of anything.

I'm 42, raised by a single parent, worked hard and so on, you appreciate the value of things. If I had the space, I'd love to take that TV in. Mom likes the old consoles and God forbid if the 1982 Zenith ever croaks and cannot be fixed, well, there is another to take it's place. It looks like back in the day, it was close to being a high end set.

I was unemployed for a while this year and now I'm working in auto parts, mainly as a delivery driver. Money is still tight. One of the kids I work with was cleaning the store out and there was an old VCR he was going to throw out. He knew I was into electronics so he asked me if I wanted it so I took it home. It works fine, watched Tom Cruise in "Cocktail" the other night. I now have a bedroom VCR, all I need is a universal remote, I'm all set. I'm glad I saved it from the trash. I know in the Bible it say basically we all and this goes for our favorite things too, return to dust, but there is no good reason to destroy something that works or can be repaired.

I wonder how this kid was raised? Did Daddy (or Mommy) buy him everything and when it broke, always got a new one right away? I'm furious. I know I'm at the sunny side of middle age, but even after a hard day at work carrying brake rotors around, being sore, tired, achy and so forth, I could find the energy to clobber this punk and roll around in the dirt with him for what he did. I hope he has a dream one night where a Chromacolor comes along and sucks him in "Poltergeist" style.

[kx250rider]

I left a comment with a few facts...

Pent up anger, I'd say.

Charles

[Sandy G]

Didn't look like was a damn thing wrong w/him-Except stupidity...