Old man arrested for shooting at TV after converter box FAIL

This, my friends, is what happens when the government delays the DTV transition, some stations go ahead with it anyway and a 70 year old man loses his cable while drunk. Yep, a senior man in Missouri, drunk, ticked off about the fuzz on his old TV and his inability to set up his converter box, pulled a gun on the innocent analog set and blew it away. The old hog--meaning the man rather than the TV--was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a firearm.

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