# Copy machines
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775 "2010-06-03T14:57:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775/1 "2010-06-03T14:57:33Z")
Has anyone out there ever smashed one with a sledgehammer?
Please, please tell me what it was like. Spare no detail!!!
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775/2 "2010-06-03T15:18:44Z")
Never did that but I did see a couple of delivery guys drop a brand new, _very_ expensive machine off the hydraulic lift gate on the back of their truck.
It was very satisfying, for me at least. I imagine the delivery guys might have a different opinion on that.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775/3 "2010-06-03T16:31:44Z")
[Yes, yes they have](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3-WibCAI0Q&feature=related).
Check the “related” videos too for some nice copier destruction.
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### Author:  [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775/4 "2010-06-03T19:16:53Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
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> [Yes, yes they have](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3-WibCAI0Q&feature=related).
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> Check the “related” videos too for some nice copier destruction.
That was good. But the first smasher seems to approach this rare opportunity for retaliatory catharsis with the same numb drudgery one might go about any other office task. The second smasher gets into it a little, but I’m still wanting. Off to the related videos.
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### Author:  [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copy-machines/541775/5 "2010-06-03T23:04:13Z")
I gave one a few good kicks once, but that was only because I didn’t have a hammer. I think I also invented a few new swears.
Then the boss called me in and told me it was a very expensive copier and _nothing_ had better happen to it.