I guess this could be taken in many ways- so let fly.
My lastest was the controller to my Playstation 2, which met with an adverse interaction with the ground while playing ESPN Football 2004. Make that a repeated adverse interaction. Sigh, add $24 to the long tally of things smashed as a source of stress relief.
Golf clubs. Though I did break one a couple of months ago when I was upset I didn’t mean to. I threw it sideways and it snapped. However in true anger I broke a 3-wood, 8 iron and a putter.
For the temper I sometimes have, there is little debris in my wake. I tend to use colorful epithets and high amplitude vocalizations to relieve my stress instead of disintegrating material objects. That doesn’t change how much fun it is to plink at pop bottles with a rifle, though.
Once, in a teenage-angst induced rage that (thankfully) I’ve never repeated, I turned a 10 foot 2x4 into splinters by bashing it against the ground repeatedly.
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[li]Computer keyboard[/li][li]VCR[/li][li]Cassette deck[/li][li]Dashboard on my old car[/li][li]Bedroom door[/li][li]Wall in washroom[/li][li]The walls in about 3 or 4 places at my mom and dad’s house from when I lived there[/li][li]Countless mis-burned CDs[/li][li]Broken VHS tapes[/li][li]Audio cassettes[/li][li]Drinking glasses[/li][li]A mirror[/li][li]Light bulbs[/li][/ul]
I’m not the type to do these things very often, though I once destroyed an alarm clock pretty thoroughly when it wouldn’t shut up quickly enough to suit me.
An Olympus 3000 35mm camera. I hurled it against a wall (along with a few other less expensive things) in a fit of fury and frustration a few days after the death of a child.
I, too, killed a phone, after a telemarketer hung up on me. Those little buttons on the cradle of rotary phones will eventually disappear entirely into the phone if you slam the receiver down enough (3) times.
Only one thing - a light bulb. Fortunately, this was outside which limited the dangerousness of the mess, but wow, a regular old 100 watt incandescent can smash most magnificently when dashed to the ground with sufficient force!
Things I’ve broken in a fit of rage:
My CPU, but I got it fixed (as I mentioned in the “Do you curse at inanimate objects” thread)
A couple of alarm clocks
A chair
A fan
Lots and lots and lots of pencils and pens
Two things usually stop me from breaking or smashing things: the clean-up afterwards and the eventual guilt of breaking something expensive.