Smashing computers is wrong

[dogsdinnerlady]

Appalled this morning to read about the mum who smashed her son's XBox and dropped it into a loch. He had used her bank card to spend £700 on add-ons for a game. Another woman dropped her son's phone down the toilet.
Apart from the pollution issues of batteries in water, surely the sensible thing to do would be to sell the equipment to recoup some of the stolen money?
I always feel queasy about the idea of deliberately smashing or breaking things.

I agree. Hate piano smashing, and those fete games where you break plates. And those hideous cake smash parties.

I'd have sold it personally - but £700 being stolen from me? I can see why she lost her rag and smashed the thing

And even when you 'have' to smash things there are ways of going about things. My dad deletes stuff then takes hardrives out of things and smashes them (for work) but all the other bits/external plasticky bits are kept for parts or sent for specialist recycling or given away!

Agreed. It's selfish. And driving out to throw your rubbish in a lake isn't spur-of-the-moment, it's premeditated.

What kind of message is this sending to the kid? That it's OK to waste things and fly tip? Screw the rules, I have money?

I hope the police speak to this woman about her littering