How To Repair Your Plasma TV With a Baseball Bat (NSFW)

7:52PM January 13, 2009 | John Herrman

That rumour that Australian toilets flush the other way isn’t true, so lets start a new one: In Australia, you can fix things by beating them. See you in my children, new trivia meme!

(AU:Um, looks like our US cousins are a little confused about us here in Australia. Firstly, the water does flush the other way, and secondly, everyone knows that you fix things by giving them a strong whack… it’s the Australian way!)


Everyone has a story about fixing a gadget with tough love, but this is kind of extreme. Depending on your history with flat panel TVs, this video will be either cathartic or nerve-wracking, but with the endless shouting arguments going on in the background, the maniacal glee with which our subject takes a metal bat to his television and the inexplicable success of the whole endeavor, well, it’s hard not to feel like you’ve witnessed something significant. NSFW for language. [NoWhereElse—Thanks, Steve]

Comments

  • Arran

    January 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    That reminds me of the apes in the movie 2001

  • Ashley

    January 14, 2009 at 10:50 AM

    Its an Aussie version of “The Fonz” from Happy Days.
    See we do learn stuff from the yanks.
    Slap it, It now works, Thumbs up.

  • Steve

    January 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM

    Gizmodo US: ignorant about Australia since 2002.

  • c0ssan

    January 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    this is so unaustralian!
    the guy should have used a cricket bat!!!

  • Andrew

    January 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM

    That guy is such a bogan, if people think all Aussies are like this the y are sadly mistaken. I would never hit my plasma like that.

  • Cameron

    January 14, 2009 at 5:50 PM

    Bit of a domestic happening in the background there lol. And this is very true for Australia if it doesn’t work kick/hit/bash it till it does. Or until it breaks then use your warranty.

  • Chris

    January 14, 2009 at 7:02 PM

    This is where the baby bonus, and the extra $1k at xmas went. Bogans, doing Australia proud.

  • rangott

    January 15, 2009 at 2:20 AM

    and duct tape, there is nothing that cant be fixed with duct tape

  • Mark

    January 17, 2009 at 4:02 AM

    its kath and kim in the background!!!!

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