Destruction of new iPAD draws criticism

[Liberal_in_LA]

**video of iPAD beating at link***

Direct link to the youtube video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGUppxoJUVg

Teen's wanton destruction on iPad goes viral on YouTube The destruction of an freshly purchased iPad for no apparent reason except "because it was there" has drawn a lot of criticism.

The comments at the video (below) range from:

"Proof that America's youth is spoiled rotten. Think they would be beating this ipad to death if they had actually paid for it themselves ?"

"Agree with shogunz. They are such spoiled f*cks. And that's what's messed up about our world, everyone cares about themselves. It's the fact that they would destroy $500 and not give it to a good cause. Or even keeping the money would have been better than wasting it like that."

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It's true, however, that the family is obviously rich. The person in question, 19-year-old Justin Kocott of Pittsburgh, PA said his family donated $10 - 15,000 to the Make a Wish Foundation in 2009. They also bought two other undestroyed iPads. As he added, though:

I knew some people would hate it, but I didn't think that many people would hate it. A lot of people are leaving really bad comments.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-39728-San-Jose-Technology-Examiner~y2010m4d7-Teens-wanton-destruction-on-iPad-goes-viral-on-YouTube

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Spoiled brat, that is all I have to say

[dorkulon]

2. He's not the first (vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gA16Fq4SAo

funny, but derivative.

[Johonny]

3. So they have a use

I couldn't figure out what the point of them was.

[Occulus]

4. I just left a comment saying his family is insufficiently taxed.

I wonder if it'll make anyone think for a moment...

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. +1

[Brickbat]

6. Good God, who gives a shit?

This is not directed at the OP.

Not everything is a symbol of something. Sometimes a dumbass is just a dumbass.

[Dappleganger]

12. True...

but as we live in an area plagued with wealthy, dumbass rich kids there does seem to be a trend of extreme wastefulness within that demographic.

[Brickbat]

15. The rich have always done crap like this

while the rest of us sit there and say, "oooo, wasteful, bratty, disgusting!" Frankly, I think they get off on it.

[Toucano]

20. I don't think I can agree with that.

For much of history, the rich have been miserly.

Wanton waste or destruction such as this would have at least brought reprimand or punishment.

To "waste" money on an elaborate wedding or extravagant purchase is a different matter than wanton wastefulness that produces no kind of benefit.

Then again, maybe this is the difference between the truly wealthy and the nouveau riche.

[Cleita]

25. I worked as a bartender in a place that served these twenty somethings

from the West End of LA, you know, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Westwood, Santa Monica, Bel Air and Beverly Hills. These were the most destructive brats around and with no apologies. They had no respect for their own stuff either, leaving behind $500 jackets, burning cigarette holes in them and not giving a damn and other acts of showing that they could destroy anything they wanted to. Daddy would always get them new ones.

[DeschutesRiver]

34. I think your last line is spot on

Just in my personal observations, it is almost 90% or better the nouveau riche that I've witnessed behaving this way.

I've also had the chance at horse shows to watch the reaction of the old wealth to these antics/spoiled actions of the nouveau riche. While there have certainly been offspring of old wealth that behave just as badly, it is not nearly as rampant as it is with these new generations of NR. Most of them can't understand what motivates so many NR to act in such a destructive, wasteful way.

To have the majority of your wealth wasted, simply for the sake of the act of destroying it, isn't what made them "old wealth", and likely many of these NR won't be passing on enough to make their families part of the "old wealth".

[Cleita]

23. Not only that they don't mind breaking your stuff too, if they can get

away with it.

[Statistical]

16. Thank God someone else sees it that way too.

I will use that as a quote "Sometimes a dumbass is just a dumbass"

Not everything has a meaning. Not everything is a sign. Not everything is a reflection upon an entire generation.

"Sometimes a dumbass is just a dumbass"

[Xithras]

7. But...WILL IT BLEND? (spoiler: Yes it will!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

I love these guys. The blender actually sucks, but the videos are awesome!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

18. I sat next to that guy on a plane about a year ago,

He is a total mormon nutjob, but pretty entertaining.

[Warpy]

8. Stupid ass

This stuff might be performance art in good times, but it's going to rub most people the wrong way in times like these.

I hope he's learning an important lesson right now. Unfortunately, I doubt he's capable of it.

[ima_sinnic]

9. he's the third person (that I know of) to do it on YouTube

another one is cited upthread, with Daniel Tosh, and then there is this:

Will it Blend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko
iPad reduced to dust in a blender!
but the toxic fumes have to be killer :(

oops--on edit: just noticed someone else posted a link to this--probably while I was searching for the link I'd seen a couple of days ago.

[Initech]

10. It was funnier when Daniel Tosh did it.

[spoony]

31. Shit was it ever!

When I clicked on this thread I figured it'd be about him.

[Romulox]

11. Sissy swings. nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. the offended need to stay away from my girlfriends house

Her kitchen table is where the latest electronics go to be dismembered, right down to melting chips off the board with a heat gun. Her basement is a crypt of rubbermaid tubs full of dissected gadgets parted out into individual baggies and labeled.

[dorkulon]

38. Wuh... huh?

Is that for a reason or just a manifestation of serious neurosis?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

39. Professional interest,

she works in electronics manufacturing with a particular interest in component pricing and assembly, they do it both for R+D and business purposes. "Our competitors product has a component cost of $100, a 4 layer circuit board and six chips and a margin of 30% at retail and I think the board is a Conexant reference design we too could license."

[dorkulon]

42. Ah.

OK then. Just sounded like serious OCD. I once had a GF who couldn't leave the house unless the Kleenex was jutting out from the box at just the right angle. But that was not professional interest, just a dollop of crazy.

[Toucano]

14. We need some sort of mandatory public service regimen.

That will cure the affluenza.

[Oregone]

19. A country that cannot inspire service has no business mandating it

[Toucano]

28. And yet your signature advocates conscription.

Seems disjointed.

[Oregone]

29. There is nothing coherent about my mind

Do I really want a draft? Ah...actually, Id just be very happy to have a war ended

[JVS]

44. +1

[Oregone]

17. Hm. I also hate these techy gizmos

Rage against the machine that enslaves us, and then gives us toys.

:)

:hide:

[onenote]

21. so is all auto destructive performance art to be condemned?

So a kid buys an Ipad and films himself trashing it. BFD.

[Cleita]

22. Well, thank God it was an iPad, not a pet or classmate.

I think that kid's Daddy Warbucks needs to spend some money on serious therapy sessions for his son.

[BlooInBloo]

24. Person destroys big useless expesive gadget? So what?

[Cleita]

26. I wonder what a homeless person would do with the $500 that the

least expensive one costs?

[onenote]

32. the same thing that they'd do with the $500 that many people spend on art supplies

or the even larger amounts that someone like Christo spends to wrap a building. Or the same thing that they'd do with the $500 that many people spend on internet access so they can fret about things like this online.

Heck, its pretty much the same thing that a homeless person would do with the $500 or more that many people spend over the course of a year on their daily dose of starbucks when they probably could get a cup of joe for a lot less somewhere else.

[yodoobo]

27. The video did leave a bad taste in my mouth

so wasteful.

The video wasn't even funny. Just spoiled kids wasting money.

Maybe their next act could be setting fire to a stack of $20 bills.

[SoxFan]

30. Mixed feelings

On one hand, this kid is a spoiled, attention-seeking dick.

On the other hand, anything that annoys Steve Jobs and his elitist asshole fanboys has considerable redeeming value.

[ecstatic]

33. Why not just burn 535 $1 bills?

:shrug: That would show everybody!

[booley]

35. Oh seriously, why should I care?

The Ipad is an overpriced toy. It's not even a living thing.

As long as the kid didn't destroy one that didn't' belong to him why should anyone care?

[onenote]

36. you shouldn't

The kid thought that videoing himself destroying an iPAD would be interesting. Its no different than any other form of performance art imo. Is it a waste? Probably. But so is a lot of failed art. Was it a waste when Jimi Hendrix, or Pete Townshend or Kurt Cobain destroyed guitars as part of their performances? In a sense yes and in a sense no. If some teenager in a bar band does the same thing is it any more or less a waste?

[DCKit]

37. My sister bought a nephew an expensive shock-proof watch...

so he threw it down on the driveway until he broke it. Then she bought him another one.

She doesn't understand the criticism she's received from other family members.

[Mudoria]

40. He bought it

He's free to do what he wants with it. Destroy it, take a dump on it, throw it in to the nearest river etc etc.

[krispos42]

41. "Conspicuous consumption"

Betcha this one's going to be driving an F-350 at age 18. He'll probably rip out and run over the catalytic converters, too, just because.

:eyes:

[MilesColtrane]

43. If he could light a cigar with an iPad, now that would REALLY say rich idiot.