“The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta! Held as a vote if not in vain for the value and voracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous “
-V
Over on Code blog tales of a nurse the author last week wrote a little piece called Customer service fail. In it she related a story about how a 42 inch flat screen TV from a company who shall go nameless had suddenly broken down and how in the end it turned out to be a mighty expensive not to mention useless process to try and repair it.
I know her pain!
The same thing happened to me. Recently my just a little over three years old 42 inch plasma decided that it would bite the big one as well. Likewise my investigations into the possibility of repair more or less amounted to the same conclusions for the very same reasons so I decided that son, you need a new TV.
Of course that being the case I was now faced with the problem of how to dispose of the 100 IB paper weight I currently had gracing my living room. As always opportunity reared its head and provided me with perhaps one of the only chances I might ever have to be a responsible environmental citizen, so I decided to recycle it rather than toss it in a dumpster.
So loading it carefully into my car I drove to a local electronic recycling depot. Upon arrival the staff kindly help me unload it and asked me what was wrong given that it was such a new TV. I explained the situation and they made the appropriate sympathetic responses including a “wow that sucks dude, you got to be pissed”.
In response I smiled and said “that reminds me there is one last thing I have to do.”
Upon which I reached into my car and pulled out the ball peon hammer that I had just bought just for the occasion and with a series of quick but precise strikes befitting an old martial artist of my stature delivered a wicked coup to the formally third most expensive item of my worldly personal possessions.
Ahh Catharsis, thy name is destruction!
Cost of TV: $4700.00
Cost of Hammer: $25.00
The look on those people’s faces as I demolished that POS TV: Priceless!
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
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3 comments:
Reminds me of a story:
When we moved into our current house, the previous tenants had a non-working big screen plasma TV like that. I said I'd dispose of it for them, and put it on Freecycle. These guys came and picked it up, but I forgot to give them the remote. I called them later to see if they had it working, and if they wanted the remote. They said yeah, it took $20 in parts and it ran beautifully. They had a universal remote, so didn't need the specific one.
You must have been watching bad things on it!
Maybe the gov should give you a tax credit on the new one (since you are helping out the world economy by buying new things)!
Great story - wish I saw the hammer swing,
BC citizen
LOL good for you! I've been wanting to do that to so many of my overpriced and sub-optimal functioning electronics!
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