What is the DUMBEST thing you've SEEN somone do with a console?

[Treeinthewoods]

I know a guy that bought a PS3 just so he could blow it up with dynamite. It was a sad scene indeed. How can someone throw away money like that is beyond me.

I have to be honest, if I had dynamite there is a long list of things I would consider buying strictly to "asplode" such as...

Macbook Air
Action Comics issue 1
Mona Lisa
Barry Bond's record setting home run ball
A Sega Saturn
An entire shelf of new release games from Gamestop
Whatever stuffed toy is going to be hot for Christmas
The Shroud of Turin
A brand new Lambourghini
A larger pile of dynamite
The contents or the organic aisle from my local grocer
A large bag of money

I just like that kind of stuff, like the dude that blended an iPhone or that insane group of old British guys who build trebuchets to launch cars. Or when Daniel Tosh bought a new iPad to destroy with a golf club.

It's just money, who cares!

 

[Tartarga]

One of my friends used to put his beverages on top of his 360. Needless to say he spilled one but the damn thing still works fine, lucky bastard.

 

[P47R1CK]

Dawww somebody already said Play It.

 

[TilMorrow]

The dumbest thing I've seen happen to a console, was when my sister updated the PS3 before playing Guitar Hero then the day after the console completely failed and no games could be played on it at all. Took forever to get a new one but it was the fact that the thing was updating so that it was better when it failed had me laughing.

Another extremely dumb thing I've seen happen to a console was when my dad left Crash Bandicoot (the first one) in the PSone when I asked him to please take it out after I was sent to my room whilst playing it. It turned out he'd left the game in the console after turning it off and it was left like that for two days. When I was finally ungrounded and came out of my room to use the PSone I found that the game disc had cracked into pieces and was completely and utterly ruined. I enjoyed playing that game so much and two days prior to its destruction I had discovered the code to unlock all levels so that I could finally see further than the first boss battle in the game (I was so bad even though it was so much fun).

 

[Keepitclean]

There is a site that ask people to donate money so they can go out buy the latest console/tech and smash it with a sledge hammer.

I think they do it on launch and in front of the line waiting for one, not sure about this bit though.

I saw their "Smash My Wii" campaign. It was fucking retarded. Just why? It is such a waste.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Anyone who bought a brand new console to only smash it right outside the store they bought it at.

Fucking fantards trying to "prove a point" to their enemy fantards.

 

[Blizzarded Soul]

This one douche that keeps coming over and taking over my room and 360 came over with Halo Reach (a game I could care less about)

so ... does that mean you like the game?
because you implied you don't by finding it hilarious
and i'm slightly confused by it

Also you said that you 'could care less' this implies that you do indeed care about the game at least a little, enough so that you 'could care less'. Try using 'I COULDN'T care less', makes much more sense.

 

[omega 616]

There is a site that ask people to donate money so they can go out buy the latest console/tech and smash it with a sledge hammer.

I think they do it on launch and in front of the line waiting for one, not sure about this bit though.

I saw their "Smash My Wii" campaign. It was fucking retarded. Just why? It is such a waste.

Why do people in Spain give bulls a disadvantage then torture them, while making them exhausted then finally kill them for entertainment? The answer to both is, fuck knows.

 

[EatPieYes]

Sell it.

 

[Ranooth]

A friend of mine turned his on PS3 and player a game on it!

HAR! HAR!

In all seriousness, my other friend uses his RROD'd Xbox as a door stop and sometimes as a leg rest.

 

[TheHecatomb]

I've not broken the console itself but I did break my ex' mother's ceiling lamp when playing that bowling game on the Wii.

 

[kebab4you]

It's not a console, but I saw a TV programme where they threw a PC off of a balcony 4 stories up just to see if it'd be cheaper to buy a new one or try and salvage it.

WHY?!

Not as bad as this one dude that called me for tech support

Dude: "Hey stephen? My computers cup-holder broke"
Me: "What? cup-holder WHAT?!"
Dude: "Yeah you know, you press that button and the cup holder pops out? I put my coke in it and the thing broke off the cheap POS"
Me "Uhh..."
Dude: "So do you think I can get a refund for my computer? I'm thinking of sueing staples for this for selling a faulty system"
Me: "You... thats... MY GOD MAN! HOW STUPID ARE YOU!? THAT'S A CD-ROM DRIVE NOT A CUP HOLDER! YOU PUT CD'S/VIDEOGAMES IN IT SO THE COMPUTER CAN READ THEM!!!"
Dude: "You don't need to be a dick about it! HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW! I'M NOT AN UBER GEEK LIKE YOU!"

(you can figure out the rest of the conversation)

No, I call bluff! There is no way someone is that retarded.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

This by far:

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWnbm5hjHY4

I suck at embedding.

There you go
Also, HAH. That was awesome ^^

 

[WOPR]

It's not a console, but I saw a TV programme where they threw a PC off of a balcony 4 stories up just to see if it'd be cheaper to buy a new one or try and salvage it.

WHY?!

Not as bad as this one dude that called me for tech support

Dude: "Hey stephen? My computers cup-holder broke"
Me: "What? cup-holder WHAT?!"
Dude: "Yeah you know, you press that button and the cup holder pops out? I put my coke in it and the thing broke off the cheap POS"
Me "Uhh..."
Dude: "So do you think I can get a refund for my computer? I'm thinking of sueing staples for this for selling a faulty system"
Me: "You... thats... MY GOD MAN! HOW STUPID ARE YOU!? THAT'S A CD-ROM DRIVE NOT A CUP HOLDER! YOU PUT CD'S/VIDEOGAMES IN IT SO THE COMPUTER CAN READ THEM!!!"
Dude: "You don't need to be a dick about it! HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW! I'M NOT AN UBER GEEK LIKE YOU!"

(you can figure out the rest of the conversation)

No, I call bluff! There is no way someone is that retarded.

I resent that!
and sadly this was all completly true

but it happened years ago, and it was his first computer

and trust me he was a tech idiot

 

[Elburzito]

I had a stoned cousin empty an entire 2 liter of cola into my PSOne once. He then put it away like nothing ever happened. Didn't attempt to dry it out, clean it off, unplug it, remove the game disc, nothing. I wasn't home when it happened, I was at work. I didn't even know anything was amiss till about 7 hours later when I got home.

And then he acted the victim when I booted him to the curb.

WHY did he do this STUPID thing?

Well, he was stoned. He was apparently drinking straight from the bottle and accidentally knocked it over while reaching for it. He claims he was so mesmerized by watching it pour out, it never dawned on him to pick it up. He then claimed he put it away wet because he didn't want to damage the lens on the reader by wiping it dry.

Yeah, I wasn't sad to see him go. On a lighter note, he's currently serving a sentence for stealing cars. I occasionally send a carton of cigarettes to his cellmates. In return, they show him some love.

*rubs hands in evil mastermind manner* Revenge is good.

Hmm, I think this is one reason as to why weed is illegal. Needless to say, you did the right thing kicking him out.

OT: I once saw my idiot of a friend beating the flying shit out of his Xbox 360 because he had significantly upgraded his PC and, therefore, saw the 360 as redundant. If only you could've seen his reaction when he found out that Fable 2 was an XBOX exclusive.

Karma is a *****, huh?

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Hosing it down to remove some dust. My cousin's a dumbass.