Man In Shoot-Up Over Analog Cut-Off: KARE-TV
Joplin Resident Discharges Gun Over DTV Converter Box Confusion
John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 2/20/2009 11:11:42 AM
Okay, so the DTV transition hasn't been perfect.
The early analog-cutoff of 421 TV stations on Feb. 17 has gone relative smoothly, according to most reports. That was not the case, though, for at least one Missouri man, according to KARE-TV Minneapolis-ST. Paul.
The station reports that a 70-year-old Joplin man was arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm after shooting his TV set. Responding to a report of shots being fired, the station reported, the police found the man angry that he had both lost his cable and had been unable to get his new DTV converter box to work.
According to the man's wife, he had been drinking.
Talkback
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They didn't take away free television. It's still there, you just need a box to receive and decode it if your television is more than ten years old. And last I checked, you can still get a voucher to cover most, if not ALL of the cost of the digital box. And if you were to say, "But any cost means it's not free!" I would say, "Well, you need to buy a television to watch one, no?".
Bob hates pineapples - 2/21/2009 5:28:47 AM EST -
The government should never have taken away free TV. It's PBS stations for free that educate the children of our poorest families. There's gotta be greed/$$
behind the decision, this government won't let you
have anything for FREE!
john public - 2/20/2009 3:40:25 PM EST
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