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story category Man Shoots TV Over DTV Transition
Though transition went pretty well for everyone else...
(old news - 12:11PM Friday Feb 20 2009)
tags: business · Oddities
Tipped by pnh102 See Profile
Apparently we spoke to soon yesterday when we noted that almost 400 of the nation's 1,800 TV stations managed the transition to digital broadcasts without many customers problems. User pnh102 See Profile writes in to note that the transition did apparently annoy Walter Hoover of Joplin, MO, who decided to fight back by shooting his television. Several times. Police have taken Mr. Hoover into custody and charged him with unlawfully discharging a firearm after a "brief standoff" with police. For those with a little more patience, Uncle Sam is again delivering the $40 coupons (2 per household) for buying converter boxes.

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