You Buy It, You Break It At California's "Smash Shack"

At San Diego's "Smash Shack", customers purchase breakable objects like glass plates ($45 gets you 15 of them), suit up with protective headgear and jumpsuits, and enter the "Break Room", where they chuck their recently purchased items at a wall, smashing them into tiny pieces. Failing economy, shmailing economy!

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Comments

[rockyersocksoff]

Great idea!

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their supporters already thought of this Smash Shack concept.

But THEY call it Iraq and Afghanistan. Smashed them sumbitches up REAL good.

I wonder if they still feel better.

[JBS]

They ain't gonna' let me smash who I think should be smashed, what's the point?

[wm1066]

" If you feel like china breaking, if you feel like laughing.
break china laughing baby, break china laughing"
lyrics from Jefferson Airplane

This has shades of a potlatch.
Native Americans used to get together and some people would purposely break pots and favorite personal articles. This might have been done in the depths of winter when "cabin fever' was at its height.
But I have done this on my own, it is kinda fun, it can be a release of emotions.

[Sceptic42]

Wasn't there something similar in "Fahrenheit 451"? If I recall, it was used by a citizenry that had no control over their lives to feel powerful, if only for a short time.

I appreciate that this is a private enterprise, and not state-run (as it was in the book), but for some reason the fact that this exists at all makes me sad.

[MagisterLudi]

I believe some enlightened companies in Japan have a decompress room where frustrated employees could smash the life sized dummy of the boss.

[AmandaBC]

I believe you mistake your fa_scistic fantasies for reality...

[wm1066]

No need to be rude.. and I have heard the same thing about japanese companies.
But I have found that people that use punching bags to get rid of frustrations can carry it into the real world and will end up punching someone before they know it.

[MagisterLudi]

In Eastern Europe there is an tradition ( if you can call it that) for the wife and/or husband to smash plates on the kitchen floor during vociferous arguments. Fun is had by all.

[AmandaBC]

"an tradition"

No wonder you failed your ESL test, fa_scist!! You didn't even learn how to use indefinite articles!! Not to mention that you still don't understand what quotation marks are for...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Wiredwilly]

These people are like children being beaten by an abusive father and since they are helpless they smash toys. This is pathetic. Smash the Federal Reserve system of fractional banking and create a New Bank of the United States with a stable currency linked to Green Energy.

[mzonic]

Wow, now people can get into more debt by smashing their "debt" away.

[Brothaman2k]

Gotta love American ingenuity. Wish we had one of those around these parts.

[string-em-up]

This is absurd, damn yuppies