Man shoots TV in DTV-fueled anger
You suddenly find that your television, which worked fine up until February 17, is now showing nothing but static on your favorite channel. Do you:
a) Turn the TV on and off again?
b) Call the cable company and/or the local station in question to see what's up?
c) Obtain a firearm and proceed to shoot multiple holes in the TV set?
I probably needn't tell you which choice a 70-year-old Missouri man selected on Friday, after he couldn't get his DTV converter box to work. According to reports, after the Joplin resident lost his cable and fussed with the DTV box for a bit, he gave up, and eventually turned to the oldest of analog solutions -- good old-fashioned firepower -- to get the television to start working.
This in fact did not work and the man was arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Additional details on the story are scarce, but Broadcasting & Cable has the inevitable conclusion to the ordeal: "According to the man's wife, he had been drinking."
You suddenly find that your television, which worked fine up until February 17, is now showing nothing but static on your favorite channel. Do you:
a) Turn the TV on and off again?
b) Call the cable company and/or the local station in question to see what's up?
c) Obtain a firearm and proceed to shoot multiple holes in the TV set?
I probably needn't tell you which choice a 70-year-old Missouri man selected on Friday, after he couldn't get his DTV converter box to work. According to reports, after the Joplin resident lost his cable and fussed with the DTV box for a bit, he gave up, and eventually turned to the oldest of analog solutions -- good old-fashioned firepower -- to get the television to start working.
This in fact did not work and the man was arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Additional details on the story are scarce, but Broadcasting & Cable has the inevitable conclusion to the ordeal: "According to the man's wife, he had been drinking."
