Throwing a tv out a window.

Terry

Has anyone ever done it and got it to smash all over the place?

About two years ago I was revamping the house and was throwing crap into a skip.
I threw a tv in, but it didn't break.
I took it out and threw it back in a few times, but it still wouldn't smash.

So I took it upstairs (standard 2 storey house) and dropped it out the window.
It still didn't break.

Then I gave up.

Has anyone has any rock star style success with this sort of thing?

Scraggs

I saw a computer monitor being thrown from a height in college onto the concourse in the middle of the day. Got the fright of my life. It didnt smash into as many pieces as you would think though.

Agent Smith

i dropped a Radio out a window, (long story)


it woorked ok, if a bit scuffed

leninbenjamin

the old style TVs are sturdy ****ers. very difficult to mess with.

Ruu_Old

Made bits of a printer office space style and a work mate threw his telly after the telly inspector (who told him he would need a license).

Masada

i did this Sooo many times.,lol, when i was younger and we'd find an old telly left on the street or rubbish tip we'd bring it up onto the balcony of a flat block and drop it., never failed to break one and whatever is in them they make some LOUDDDdd bang when they smash.,
thats my confession for the day father.,lol:o

Mossy Monk

I would like to do it. Not with my own tv though.

Not a TV but, a packet of butter that had been left out and gone soft 35 deg C at the time. dropped it from the 15th floor onto a concrete carpark! The splat! was 3metres in diameter

I threw a bed out a window last year at a house party.It was wooden and it broke.He was so pissed.Never knew it was me though.:D

_blank_

I used to work for a large Dublin based electrical retailer - ninety-nine ninety-nine.

The lads in the wharehouse used to smash old tellies.

Bash the screen with some hard metal bar, they implode.

spadder

a cheaper option is to throw the remote out the window:)

cance

i threw a 4u hp server (with assistance) off a 2 story building into a skip below, it made a bone shattering boom on impact and destroyed the side of the skip... we ran away and never did it again.

it didnt shatter into pieces tho, disapointing.

Archeron

Possibly on a tangent, I once threw a hoover IN thorugh a window which I then discovered was actually shut. There was a loud crash as the glass broke, but the hoover survived admirably. (it was one of those big old Nilfisk things that sometimes seem to have faces painted onto them).
Conveniently, I then used it to clean up the smaller shards of glass which were everywhere.

Sgt Hartman

Never a TV but I once smashed a PS2 controller into bits off my wall and bedroom floor after consistently failing to keep a clean sheet on FIFA 2003. The computer had a knack of running straight towards goal from kick-off and scoring. It was almost impossible to stop. (Very sad I know:()

Dragan

I used to do Demolition of old houses and you'd find all kinds of cool **** that people had left behind and you could smash.

TV's are easy and fun to smash up, but we used to play rock paper scissors to see who got to give the bathroom a hammering.

There is nothing more fun that smashing up a bathroom with a 20lb sledge.

Oh yes oh yes oh yes!!!

Terry

Archeron wrote: »

Possibly on a tangent, I once threw a hoover IN thorugh a window which I then discovered was actually shut. There was a loud crash as the glass broke, but the hoover survived admirably. (it was one of those big old Nilfisk things that sometimes seem to have faces painted onto them).
Conveniently, I then used it to clean up the smaller shards of glass which were everywhere.

That's not a nilfisk. It's a Henry.
Henry rules.

connundrum

I once threw a TV remote out of a window.

rubadub

An old CRT has really thick glass tubes so is hard to break. So a plasma would be far easier. But tell todays hard man rockers that and they wont believe you, "when I were a lad, you had to be on at least the 4th storey" - "yeah yeah gramps"

I have done some drop testing and impact testing on machines I design, throw them like caber tossing around the carpark, good stress relief.

Cabaal

I've smashed a few old CRT's with a pikaxe, jahsus they took some beating before they broke

Harddrives also taking some beating before they break, if you want to break them your much better off opening them correctly first.

Smashed an old PC once, it was a cheap old case so it only took a few kicks before the computer and PSU, cd-rom drive etc were flat as a pancake on the ground, was great fun...also got to throw it down a stairs,

Nightwish

My brother in law threw a microwave out a 4th floor window in Dublin city centre. It smashed into large pieces across the street. I'd imagine it was quite satisfying to do.

Archeron

Terry wrote: »

That's not a nilfisk. It's a Henry.
Henry rules.

So it is! I couldnt remember his name, just his silly grinning face.

Pigman II

I once threw a baseball thru a window. The ball didn't smash all over the place. I guess it has different properties to a TV.