p2pnet news view | TV:- It had to happen

“Alarm and confusion continues to spread across America as television sets go dark, depriving millions of people of their only source of communication with the outside world,” says a p2pnet post.

That was because February 17,  “was the official termination day for Americans with unauthorised TV sets which, without special gear, were doomed to crash, their signals vanishing down the analog hole.”

A man angry about the shut-off of his cable TV service, “shot his television set Wednesday afternoon and then prompted a two-hour standoff with police before leaving his house and surrendering,” says the Joplin Globe, adding:

“Police Chief Carl Francis said the wife of Walter Hoover, 70, walked to the police station a couple of blocks away and reported that her husband had been drinking, was angry with a shut-off of his cable service, and had gotten his guns out.”

Hoover may have been suffering from the DTV DTs.

But even with a SWAT team in attendance, no shots were fired.

Except at the TV.

February , 2009p2pnet – TV sets go dark across the US, February 18, 2009
Joplin Globe – Man shoots TV set; standoff ensues, February 18, 2009

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