# Things you have broken when angry **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025 "2003-09-26T19:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/1 "2003-09-26T19:25:39Z")
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. :o ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/2 "2003-09-26T19:39:35Z")
A wall (punched hole through). A steel fire door (bent and dented with bare hands). Wooden door (punched panels out) These days, I prefer creative invective. I’m really a very mellow person unles provoked. ---
**Author:** ![Ottoerotic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/3 "2003-09-26T19:54:04Z")
A glass dresser top. My bedroom door. A cabinet door. 3 windows. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/4 "2003-09-26T19:54:09Z")
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. I also put my hand through a wall once. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/5 "2003-09-26T21:26:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/6 "2003-09-26T23:51:06Z")
Thread titles? :smack: Oh dear, better run now! Could be me next! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/7 "2003-09-27T02:21:55Z")
I once tried to put my brother’s head through a wall. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/8 "2003-09-27T03:35:04Z")
I once slammed a phone down so hard after an argument that the receiver broke in half. At least it wasn’t an expensive phone! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/9 "2003-09-27T04:11:48Z")
Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/10 "2003-09-27T04:19:30Z")
As an angst-ridden teen, I ripped a $20 bill up in front of a girl I angry at. She was like “:dubious:, ahhh, so it’s fake” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/11 "2003-09-27T04:26:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/12 "2003-09-27T05:06:49Z")
[ul] [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] ---
**Author:** ![Xanthas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@Xanthas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xanthas)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/13 "2003-09-27T05:20:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/14 "2003-09-27T05:25:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rayn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/15 "2003-09-27T05:28:37Z")
My violin, because the sounds weren’t coming out right. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/16 "2003-09-27T06:02:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by roxx222 \* > \*\*I once slammed a phone down so hard after an argument that the receiver broke in half. At least it wasn’t an expensive phone! \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/17 "2003-09-27T06:12:05Z")
A disposable camera The wall in my bathroom About four or five glass things ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/18 "2003-09-27T06:38:34Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/19 "2003-09-27T06:53:48Z")
A stress ball. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025/20 "2003-09-27T09:52:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*I once tried to put my brother’s head through a wall. Does that count? \*\* Well, did it break? 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-broken-when-angry/204025.md?page=2)