A Missouri man is charged with unlawful use of a firearm, after peppering his T-V with bullets.
Police responded to a home in Joplin Wednesday after reports of shots being fired inside.
The 70 year old homeowner was angry that he had lost his cable, and was unable to get his new DTV converter to work properly.
After a brief standoff, the man was taken into custody. His wife told officers the suspect had been drinking.
Man shoots television after DTV tantrum
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Re: Man shoots television after DTV tantrum
Hows that for the efficacy of the Fifth precept....
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Re: Man shoots television after DTV tantrum
who said all this technology is making life easier?
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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Re: Man shoots television after DTV tantrum
Makes you wonder why, since he had the means at hand, he didn't shoot the thing BEFORE it went on the fritz.