Posted on 04/07/2010 9:30:18 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A VIDEO of a group of teenagers destroying a brand new iPad computer with a baseball bat has gone viral on YouTube.
The video of the smashing of the $US500 ($545) device outside a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday has attracted more than 280,000 views on the video-sharing site.
The Los Angeles Times caught up with Justin Kockott, the 19-year-old high school student who made the video titled Brand new iPad getting smashed by a baseball bat.
"I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it," Kockott told the newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
outrage at what? was he being a racist tea party member?(sarc)
Notoriety cost him five bills. It’s his money. Depending on what he does with it, it might even have been worth it.
If he paid for it, it is his property to do with as he wishes.
This would be a non-story if it was an American flag being burned...
“I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it,”
Maybe the next big thing will be a run on baseball bats.
Yep, it’s his property and he can do whatever he wants with it. And it is interesting that for $500 he has over a million youtube hits. So we can now see that 15 minutes of fame is pretty cheap to buy nowadays.
I don’t understand the “outrage” thing.
And.......”19-year-old high school student”??
I was out of highschool by age 17.
Sorry, I must have missed the part where he was born without a brain.Imagine if some kid decided to film this moron being beaten with a bat because they wanted to be the first to do it!?????????????????????????? Frankly, I could use $500.
"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta."
So - an australian newspaper is reporting on an LA times reporter questioning a kid in Pittsburgh doing something that he posts on Youtube whose servers are who knows where?
Ain’t globalization grand?
Outrage because some dumb kids put some money into the economy and then did with their property what they wanted? Hmmm I’ll just stick with my outrage over the govenrment nationalizing my body and not worry so much about some internet fame seekers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko
Apparently, I’m missing the “wow-factor” in this display. I admit that I’m not easily impressed so maybe it’s my issue. lol
Anything with that kind of traffic will get an offer for ad placement via adsense and get revenue from Google. He'll make $500 very quickly.
That was my first thought ... 19 and still in high school?
Hmmm .... I wonder why?
I’m guessing that some moonbats are upset that someone with free will chose not to donate to Haitian orphans ,Sierra Club or something...that free will thing is hated by leftists.
I don’t get the outrage. So the kid wasted $500, just like the other 299,999 people who bought one.
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