Has anyone shot thier old broken technology?

[x007x]

Just curious if anyone had an Iphone, or Ipod, or technology they did not want anymore, and had no use [abbreviated profanity deleted] it. Have any of you taken it out back and shot it?

My old Iphone 3gs, and Ipod classic 3rg gen is broken. My Iphone 3g's buttons to not work, and the USB port is damaged and does not read a USB cord. Also, the speakers are broken too and do not make any noise, and the screen is shattered. All due to one drop, lol which happened to fall down 3 flights of stairs. So, I got the idea of going to my ranch and setting it up as a target and shooting it.

[The Mad Moderate]

Do it I've always wanted to know if an iPhone is bulletproof.

[x007x]

OK..I was actually going to record it with my SLR camera, and take pictures frames of it.

[jmorris]

I was going to build a catapult to launch some of my old stuff down range but then I got thinking about all that nasty stuff on the ground and decided against. Now I want to build a trebuchet to launch pumpkins after Halloween.

[RPB]

Put it on Youtube, add some dialog like "I TOLD MY DAUGHTER SHE WAS GROUNDED" and be on Dr. Phil, the Today show, GMA, and news world wide

[RoyGBiv]

Old tube TV's are fun to shoot.

[Carry-a-Kimber]

I shoot my 1911 all the time.

[Thomas]

Do it I've always wanted to know if an iPhone is bulletproof.

Naa...

Fast forward to 1minute 33 seconds for the good parts.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=B489u_1ZBIA[/youtube]

[jimlongley]

I have a very old and dear friend who is a Franciscan monk. He is also a ham radio operator. One day as I was talking to him on the radio, he asked me if he could borrow one of my guns. When I asked him why, he told me he wanted to shoot his computer, seriously! I told him to hold on and not do anything drastic, that I would come over and see what we could do about making the computer work. By the time I got there, he had it on the front steps smashing it with a sledge hammer.

I will admit to shooting a cell phone. I used to work as a contract instructor for Motorola, teaching about their new technology called "iDEN." When the first iDEN phones became available, I bought three so that my wife and stepdaughter and I could walkie talkie on them as well as some of the other capabilities.

The phones worked fine, but the service from the provider was unbelievably poor. Calls dropped with good signal strength, calls that did not ring through as though I was not answering the phone, and a myriad of other complaints, all technical in nature. Then there was the poor customer service, which included the vendor assuring me that when I moved to Texas, switching the phone so that I still had walkie talkie with my wife was no problem.

Since I had taught the technology, I knew it could be done, but what I didn't know was that the vendor was using an earlier version of the network software that did not have nationwide walkie talkie implemented, and due to the expense of upgrading they had no plans to do so in the near future. When a former co-worker at Motorola determined that for me, I called the vendor to cancel the service because they were not fulfilling their end of the contract.

Eventually, with my attorney involved, they agreed to refund the price of the phones and part of the service fees (the difference between an average cellular contract and theirs) and I was to return the phones after service was terminated on May 30th.

They terminated the service a week early, so after informing my lawyer what I was going to do, I took the cell phone to the range and put one nice neat .22 hole right through the company logo on the phone.

Needless to say they were not pleased and withheld the total price of that phone from the refund check. My lawyer dropped by small claims court for me (and those fees ate up just about all of the refund) and pointed out to the judge that the phone, which the vendor was saying they wouldn't pay for because it was returned "non-functional," didn't function anyway, which is why it was being returned, and that the company also owed me an extra week of service refund.

We settled on half price for the phone and the extra week.

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When we lived in IL there was a range where you could bring your old broken technology to and shoot at it. Lots of old appliances and tvs in that pit.

[Dragonfighter]

I have a very old and dear friend who is a Franciscan monk. He is also a ham radio operator. One day as I was talking to him on the radio, he asked me if he could borrow one of my guns. When I asked him why, he told me he wanted to shoot his computer, seriously! I told him to hold on and not do anything drastic, that I would come over and see what we could do about making the computer work. By the time I got there, he had it on the front steps smashing it with a sledge hammer.

I will admit to shooting a cell phone. I used to work as a contract instructor for Motorola, teaching about their new technology called "iDEN." When the first iDEN phones became available, I bought three so that my wife and stepdaughter and I could walkie talkie on them as well as some of the other capabilities.

My dad used to work for GE Mobile Communications. When they got returns, they had to document their destruction and traditionally used sledge hammers. One day he asked me to go with him and we spent the day with three of his friends shotgunning, hand gunning and rifle blasting these two way radios. He videotaped but alas, that was before YouTube...or even public internet.

[7075-T7]

I put a 357 mag through a Motorola Razr (first gen) because I was on my 3rd one, it still didn't work well, and I wanted to send a message to my other cell phones. Took an old phonebook, hollowed out a Razr sized cavity in the middle of it, and duct taped it together to keep the phone from just blowing apart. It's actually in my cube right now

[TexasComputerDude]

Once Christmas is over I usually go to Walmart and buy the discounted animated decorations and shoot them while they dance. It's a whole lot of fun.