Alternate title: How to waste other people's money.You may remember a couple of weeks ago we told you about SmashMyiPod.com, a site that was collecting money from readers to be spent on an iPod that would immediately be destroyed. As of yesterday, they have acheived their goal. According to the website, the video has been shot, but it hasn't been posted yet. Seems to me that they could have just filmed the tossing of the $400 into a trash can, but who am I to question a person's right to free speech?
Encouraged by their success, the folks at SmashMyiPod have plans for SmashMyxBox360, SmashMyPS3 and SmashMyRevolution.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:08AM
south said...
now I love my iPod and all iPods in general, but I'm also in favor of pointlessly breaking things. good on them.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:12AM
Ryan said...
I'm sure that all the people affected by the several recent disasters (especially the quake) understand perfectly why these people didn't just donate their $400 to charity and instead essentially threw it away.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:12AM
mungler said...
yeah, cos thats a far better use of $400 than, say, giving it to hurricane victims, or to the third world. is it any wonder the west is hated the world over?
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10-21-2005 @ 9:13AM
mungler said...
actually... regarding the pictures of the 'smashed' ipod. smashed? or carefully taken apart and arranged? you decide! ((c)2005 pointless conspiracy theories r us)
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10-21-2005 @ 9:36AM
Peter Koritschan said...
Seriously guys, only in the U.S. do people have so much fun and put so much effort into breaking things...
I remember from back in the day: driving in cars while smashing mailboxes with baseball bats were just one way of breaking stuff...
Are people really THAT bored? If you really think about it, what purpose does it have to put money and energy into breaking something? Especially purposely buying a brand new product to break it.
I agree with mungler on this, that's what not just creates hate, but also from an outsider perspective, it just looks like they are plain idiots.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:55AM
mungler said...
then again, their government launches three 6-million dollar apiece cruise missiles on baghdad in retaliation for an alleged assassination attempt on bush. they killed scores of innocent people.
you can see why wasting money on pointless destruction is so ingrained in their culture.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:55AM
NetworkShadow said...
WTF? These are the people that the world could get along just fine or better without.
It doesn't even seem to be a real statement ether, they are doing it just to smash it and to be annoying.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:55AM
mungler said...
correction, it was not three cruise missiles. it was twenty-two. my mistake.
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10-21-2005 @ 11:14AM
christine said...
mungler! hahaha good post : )
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10-21-2005 @ 11:17AM
marcrest said...
with my recent experiences with an ipod mini… its nice to see one in pieces!
better your $400 than mine… any chance that's covered under warranty?
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10-21-2005 @ 11:52AM
Sean Flanagan said...
We've also destroyed the educational system, personal responsibility, the honor of the Presidency, the value of the dollar, the price of gas, business ethics, independent political parties, coastal waters, the ozone layer, parenting, and countless other things. And "the left" has destroyed publishing freedoms and "the right" has destroyed the separation of church and state. And you know what explains it? Smashing an iPod. It's the root of all that is "wrong" with America.
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10-21-2005 @ 12:35PM
fra said...
Oh god... thoese people ... need to get LAID.
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10-21-2005 @ 12:39PM
Kt said...
Fra, I love you.
And another conspiracy, thanks to the comments from engadget:
The guy had a destroyed 4G, got the $400, and got a new 5G. He smashed up the 4G good and is laughing all the way to the Apple store with a new iPod.
*twilight zone music*
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10-21-2005 @ 1:54PM
Alex said...
No site (including TUAW) should even cover those idiots. By reporting about them you give them the visibility they wanted.
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10-21-2005 @ 2:15PM
Chris L W said...
I heard about this before, on TUAW, but didn't comment. I didn't even bother sending them email on my thoughts. I thought it was a colossal joke or scam. I was wrong. Seeing the pics of the "murdered" iPod (yes, I know it's not a living being!) just makes me shake my head and wonder where this generation, and our last two gens, went wrong. Are younger (?) people that hard up for a thrill? Is there any statement behind this other than "iPods suck!"? Hey, I'm all for silly bugger humour, but this is pointlessness gone off the deep end! Our economy is still trying to recuperate, gas prices are sky-high, there are needy people everywhere (not just LA) and some jerkos feel the need to waste other people's money. This isn't the lowest point of society, by any stretch (remember: a kid was killed for an iPod!), but it makes me sick that this kind of destruction for self-gratification exists. Sorry for my "save-the-world" speech, but I felt the need to voice my thought on this. Thanks!
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10-21-2005 @ 4:55PM
Henry said...
This was stupid, but in response to the comments about giving the money to charity rather than wasting it, it is eventually going to end up going to other individuals (Apple employees, shareholders, government employees via taxes, employees of companys that Apple buys things from, etc) who will have the choice of giving the money to charity. And the person who did it hasn't done anything to the people who gave him the money, they did it of their own free will. The best thing to do about this would be to ignore it. They aren't going to get enough money for all of those expensive game systems if no one reports/blogs about them.
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10-22-2005 @ 5:53AM
fra said...
Kt... I think I may love you too...
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10-31-2005 @ 5:15PM
Yegor Simpson said...
What a bunch of lies... read http://www.smashmyipod.com for the REAL story.
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