Man stripped to waist, tears up phone store over bad service

[Champ]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A man who stripped to the waist, put on safety goggles and tore up a Verizon Wireless store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Jason Perala, 22, pleaded guilty Monday to felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor assault in the rampage the company said cost it more than $20,000 in broken equipment and lost sales.

The 5-foot-11, 200-pound former college wrestler said he had intended to only scream at the store workers, but when he tried to throw his cell phone against a wall, it hit a worker in the shoulder.

He continued to destroy merchandise for several minutes while workers locked themselves in an office.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1004/181363.html

[pinniped]

1. The verizon commercial geek drove him to it.

I knew it would happen.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Again?

Didn't something very, very similar happen last spring?

[eyesroll]

3. Maybe THAT's what I should have done yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1837333&mesg_id=1837333

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!!!!!!!!

SMASH! BOOM! CRASH!!