http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ipad-baseball-bat-iphone-ipod,news-6364.html

wtf? I have to give him A+ for originality but damn...

4/5/2010 1:30:13 PM

i guess someone watched tosh.0 a month or so ago when he bashed one with a golf club

not

original



(also, 19 year old high school kid? wtf?)

4/5/2010 1:32:06 PM

F for originality. Some retard does that everytime a new product comes out.

4/5/2010 1:32:08 PM

good lord some people are just plain stupid

4/5/2010 1:32:11 PM

Quote :

"Justin Kockott, a 19-year-old Pittsburgh high school student"

4/5/2010 1:33:44 PM

What do they care, it's not like they used their own money to buy that iPad.

4/5/2010 1:35:18 PM

Quote :

"F for originality. Some retard does that everytime a new product comes out."

4/5/2010 1:36:30 PM

I think the first time someone did this was when Xbox or Xbox 360 came out (I honestly can't remember which).

4/5/2010 1:37:27 PM

Quote :

"What gave you the idea for the video? Pretty much that I've seen people smash Wiis and Playstation 3s and stuff, so this was something new. I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it. It was just something to do."

F
FOR
ORIGINALITY

4/5/2010 1:40:17 PM

what a spoiled piece of shit

4/5/2010 1:44:42 PM

This kid is retarded.

smashmyps3.com had a donation button where the actual ps3 was paid for by others. The point was to break something that people couldn't easily get and would have paid more than MSRP for it. It was as much of a reaction video as anything else.

This kid bought an iPad, smashed it out front with 5 of his friends, then bought two more.

[Edited on April 5, 2010 at 2:02 PM. Reason : f]

4/5/2010 2:01:39 PM

^^ Agreed. I love how people don't actually realize how easy they have it until it's gone.

Quote :

"Like what? Some people are saying I should've donated the money instead of wasting it. But my family donates money all the time. Last year we gave $10-15,000 to the Make a Wish Foundation (my little sister is sick). It's not like we're greedy, it's not like we did it to rub it in and say, "We have the money, oh look at us." Are you glad you did it? I love that I did it. I did it with my money. And we actually ended up buying two more iPads that we kept. The one that I bought was the 16Gb. I had to save up a bit to get it, I don't just walk around with $500 in my pocket. But the fact that so many people hate it -- I don't want to say I love that, but it's funny. "

I think it's ok to just say "It's my money and I wanted to do something frivolous; fuck the haters." Trying to justify your actions will just make you sound like a prick.

[Edited on April 5, 2010 at 2:03 PM. Reason : l]

4/5/2010 2:03:14 PM

i think this should happen at every major tech item release, its quite a liberating way of saying "i own you, you dont own me"

4/5/2010 2:06:55 PM

I think Steve Jobs is going "haha thanks for the money, I don't give a fuck what you do with it after you pay for it."

So really, this kid loses.

4/5/2010 2:10:36 PM

Quote :

"its quite a liberating way of saying "i own you, you dont own me""

[insert obligatory denial poster]

4/5/2010 2:15:42 PM

I wonder how much money Steve Jobs made on that one iPad...

I don't think he could care any less

4/5/2010 2:16:14 PM

Quote :

"I don't just walk around with $500 in my pocket."

But you are ok with/rich enough to almost literally burn $500. I see.

4/5/2010 3:59:22 PM

Quote :

"its quite a liberating way of saying "i own you, you dont own me""

I'm surprised there's not an app for that.

4/5/2010 4:04:43 PM

This is definitely not thread worthy

4/5/2010 4:30:26 PM

HE HATES THESE CANS

4/5/2010 4:52:44 PM

LOL

4/5/2010 4:56:33 PM

LOL @ the interview.

Kid is either a Nihilist or a Failist.

4/5/2010 5:05:14 PM

Quote :

"HE HATES THESE CANS"

hahahahahaha...The Jerk!

4/5/2010 5:27:05 PM

and this is why we can't have nice things

4/5/2010 5:34:09 PM

I don't care how much money I have, I'm not going to burn it, rip it up, throw it away or flush it down the toilet. This is the equivalent of any one of those. He could have given it to someone who needed it or something, jesus h christ.

I mean, I know it's his money but money is hard shit to come by and throwing it away, no matter how little, just seems incredibly wrong and wasteful. This is a first world activity for sure.

4/5/2010 5:36:47 PM

it's still weak sauce

if he bought a Ferrari and smashed it, I'd be impressed

on the other hand, I'd feel sorry for the Ferrari...I don't feel sorry for the Ipad

4/5/2010 5:37:23 PM

Quote :

"FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS"

4/5/2010 5:37:59 PM

It's weak sauce in so many ways and from so many different angles it's not even funny.


He essentially has gone to Africa, found a group of starving children, made a huge charcoal pit next to tables covered in fresh cut meats and vegetables and pretended like he was going to cook the food for them and then just dumped it all in the fire.

THAT IS WHAT HE HAS ESSENTIALLY DONE.

4/5/2010 5:38:35 PM

It would have been funnier if they had used it as a launch pad for model rockets until the battery burst.

4/5/2010 5:41:46 PM

sometimes you gotta fuck shit up. i approve. it's about as useful as spending those hundreds of dollars on booze

4/5/2010 5:42:41 PM

We only smash stuff outside. We don't smash stuff inside, but we love smashing stuff, gotta say we do.

4/5/2010 7:02:20 PM

if he had been more creative i would have enjoyed it. dip it in liquid nitrogen son

4/5/2010 7:14:43 PM

who gives a shit about the iPad

4/5/2010 7:21:46 PM

Quote :

"But my family donates money all the time. Last year we gave $10-15,000 to the Make a Wish Foundation (my little sister is sick)."

I feel like a bit of an ass for thinking it, but: If your little sister was really and truly sick, I really don't think that (a) your family would have 10-15K to donate because sick kids are hella expensive and (b) you wouldn't be such a douche that you'd waste money to just smash an iPad for the hell of it.

4/5/2010 7:32:02 PM

^^ obviously that kid didn't

(or he did, depending on how you look at it)

4/5/2010 7:35:02 PM

HWTAH.

THE.

FUCKAL?

4/5/2010 8:22:49 PM

Not that I care that he ruined an iPad...but that money he spent could have gone to something a lot better than just making rich people more rich.

No wonder he is 19 and still in high school.

4/5/2010 9:34:50 PM

kids are stupid.

4/5/2010 9:36:46 PM

kids are stupid.

4/5/2010 9:37:36 PM

I'm thinking he didn't do much to earn that money...

4/5/2010 10:02:53 PM

Rich people always do what they want. Meh.

4/5/2010 10:09:55 PM

kid was a total pussy about smashing it to boot

4/5/2010 10:34:30 PM