People are paying to break printers with sledgehammers in smash rooms

"SAN FRANCISCO — Three grown men against one printer wasn’t a fair fight. But Armando Islas and his friends didn’t care. The three gathered around a defunct HP printer, brandishing giant hammers and standing in the smashed-up remnants of dead electronics.

Islas and two classmates were celebrating the end of their law school exams at Bay Area Smash Room, a basement unit where customers pay $120 or more to break stuff for 30 minutes. Smashing the printer would feel good, they said, like revenge on the shoddy campus printers that plagued them through the past six semesters of graduate school."

#HP #Epson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/10/rage-room-printers-recycle-environment-health/