First Moron To Break His TV With Kinect

[Skeithex]

Well, the first moron that we've heard of. He's not really a moron, he's Phil Villarreal, author and critic. And he's out a pricey television. You are the controller? No Phil, you are the guy with the broken TV.

"A public service announcement: Do not under any circumstances play Kinect Sports Volleyball at 1:30 a.m. while standing under a ceiling fan with a dangling chain for a light switch," he writes.

The result was that Phil apparently spiked the dangling chain into his 47-inch 1080p LCD HDTV, leaving it with a rainbow LCD teardrop of death. Kinect went on sale on November 4. It is now November 5. That television was purchased last December, and it never lived to see its second Christmas. How sad.

When the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, there were also claims that flying Wii Remotes caused accidents — some real, some not. Anytime you get gamers off the sofa and floundering around the living room, you're asking for trouble.

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HA! this is pure internet gold.

[froggyboy604]

Lol, I hope he did not faked this for publicity since people like *Perez Hilton* in the blogging and writing industry are sometimes known for stretching the truth to get more traffic to his website to get more advertising money, traffic from clicks on their ads which can be thousands of dollars a day for sites like Engadget, Kotaku, and other major websites.

At least it was an Insignia branded TV which is one of Best Buy's cheapest TV brand unlike Panasonic or Sony TVs.

lol, the TV is crying.

[Skeithex]

I'm sure he was, and as such he has become famous.

[Logan18]

Wow, he's a moron! He most likely did it to get attention.

[agentmanningctu]

What an idiot. Some people shouldn't be allowed to play video games.

[Logan18]

Yeah, the major gaming companies should ban idiots from buying all gaming accessories, consoles, games, etc. I'd love for that to happen.