Walmart shopper takes a bat to 29 TVs, lobbies to join Braves' spring training squad

Look, we've all had rough days. Ones that we wish never even happened, in fact. But we've yet to be pushed to the brink where the only logical solution to blow off steam would be to take an aluminum baseball bat to nearly three dozen TVs that weren't ours. For whatever reason (the accused is pleading the Fifth), Westley Strellis waltzed into a Walmart just outside of Atlanta yesterday, where he proceeded to lift a bat from the sporting goods section and then demolish the screens of 29 televisions in the electronics department. Shortly after, he submitted to a pair of handcuffs and 29 counts of criminal damage to property in the second degree, and if the initial tallies are correct, he somehow managed to mar over $22,000 worth of goods. Chin up, Mr. Strellis -- maybe you'll end up in a cell next to this brainiac.

P.S. - Store footage of the rampage is after the break.

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[Dking7 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:30PM]

He was like, no I don't want normal TV... I want HD TV with 3D! but they are not out yet! maybe smashing these will make them order new once! Smash! Smash! Bash!

[Meekermoloko Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:41PM]

@nicholiservia

No, I'm fine with him doing that at Walmart.

Good thing he didn't go crazy with their HDMI cables ... then he'd really be in financial trouble.

[JeanMichel Decombe Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:57PM]

In Saudi Arabia, he would have received a hundred lashes with HDMI Monster cables.

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Feb 11th 2010 9:22PM]

Holy SHITE! I used to work about three blocks from that Wal-Mart.

Glad I moved out.

[doug Posted Feb 11th 2010 10:02PM]

@Dking7

i think i see emperor palpatine in the back there.....

"good...goood"

[KurticusGT Posted Feb 11th 2010 10:48PM]

"Falling Down", now in HD...

[Palomino Posted Feb 11th 2010 11:05PM]

@KurticusGT I LOVE that movie! SO good!

[rickacoczy Posted Feb 12th 2010 12:37AM]

@Dking7 I thought blackfriday doesn't happen until November? LOL! Anyway this is another walmart-induced craziness vid happened recently this 2009: http://bit.ly/blackfriday-2009-walmart-worst-video

[DarkGrimoire Posted Feb 12th 2010 4:53AM]

@Dking7
Maybe he was tryin to break down the wall of wall-mart.. and he thought those TVs were "....just another brick in the wall"..

[pcfishhk Posted Feb 12th 2010 10:41AM]

@nicholiservia At BestBuy, you will have to bring your own bat.

[SunDevil2012 Posted Feb 12th 2010 12:15PM]

@nicholiservia It probably would have gotten stopped after a couple TV's at Best Buy. You should thank yourself the employees at Walmart don't give 2 shits because stopping the guy is above their pay-grade.

[barCODE Posted Feb 13th 2010 3:01AM]

@JeanMichel Decombe

I think you mean Michael Fay,. the guy who received lashings for vandalism while in SINGAPORE.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=singapore+michael+fay&aq=1&aqi=g10&oq=singapore+mic

[BUNT2 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:30PM]

Well there's 29 Panasonic's that kept their black levels till the end.

[DougieBear Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:16PM]

@BUNT2

29 TV's all with the same channel.

[meeku Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:31PM]

[pedant] Well, it's actually closer to two dozen televisions. [/pedant]

[FORDY Posted Feb 13th 2010 5:33AM]

@meeku Glad someone else did, I didn't want to look the pedant...

[Firehazel Posted Feb 22nd 2010 8:07PM]

@meeku
I think that it's .

[tcc3 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:32PM]

He was looking for the heart of Walmart.

[eman2593 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:42PM]

@tcc3 to bad they don't have one

[Junzhi Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:13PM]

@Annoying Poster

maybe so, but regardless he has a point..

[extemper Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:28PM]

@tcc3 It is a South Park reference

[daytripper Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:48PM]

@tcc3
he should have just brought the 7 dollar screwdrivers and left. they're were on sale.

[Captain Underpants and the Bring Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:33PM]

somehow, the creators of the video game "smash tv" on the sega genisis are to blame

[New Reformation Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:46PM]

@Captain Underpants and the Bring

I say that it is media pirating's fault.

[Captain Underpants and the Bring Posted Feb 11th 2010 11:21PM]

@New Reformation it probably didn't help that the wal-mart was publicly displaying restricted NFL footage without expressed written consent. believe, me nothing gets a man more angry then when a sporting event is broadcast publicly without the expressed written consent of the parent company.

[nuck Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:34PM]

They should make a Wii game out of this ....... oh wait ... TVs are already getting smashed by Wiimotes ... =/

[tavisjohn Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:48PM]

@nuck Not anymore. People have learned to read the warning screen on every single game that tells you to use the wrist strap.

[WiiFTW Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:35PM]

BONK

[New Reformation Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:49PM]

@WiiFTW

you upside the head for wearin' your cap crooked.

[FallenArms3 Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:08PM]

@WiiFTW BOINK

[ZevOlev Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:29PM]

@WiiFTW hat to side, looks WiiTarded

[TMoney2007 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:35PM]

Just think of how much it would've cost if he had done this at Best Buy or something like that. Thank god for Walmart's falling prices...

[Spiraling Shape Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:41PM]

@TMoney2007 New HDTV only $500 -- slightly smashed with a baseball bat.

[gletob Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:51PM]

@TMoney2007

Here in VA larceny and property damage is judged by the "original price" not the "sale price"

[TMoney2007 Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:05PM]

@gletob Joking, but Walmart's "falling prices" aren't sales, they just lower the price on some things...

[KirbyKoot401 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:37PM]

Honesty, that sounds fun

[FORDY Posted Feb 13th 2010 5:35AM]

@KirbyKoot401 Do you mean "honestly", or are you just very religious/community orientated?

[iHack13 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:39PM]

Should be titled: Training homeruns in Walmart

[iroq d mullet Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:40PM]

"Clean up in isle 9..."

[paezbak Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:40PM]

Waltons family is still too rich to be affected by this... this is just considered as assets write-off..

[Ioncloud9 Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:15PM]

@paezbak an insurance claim.

[wilburX Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:53PM]

@Ioncloud9 walmart is self-insured, this comes right out of the that store's profit.

[Lucas Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:43PM]

Anything can happen inside a WalMart.

[paul34 Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:48PM]

@Anonymoose

Look in the "family planning" aisle next to the pharmacy

[Lucas Posted Feb 11th 2010 6:53PM]

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ Like I said. ANYTHING.

[ThePCRehabLLC Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:18PM]

@Lucas The problem is people who go to Walmart don't buy anything from that section. And that link proves that.

[Lucas Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:24PM]

@ThePCRehabLLC I'm personally more of a fan of Target, and for electronics, Radio Shack. Though the guys at the one I go to are complete A-holes.

[ThePCRehabLLC Posted Feb 11th 2010 7:28PM]

@Lucas I completely agree with you. I don't shop at Walmart unless I have to. I used to work for Target in Electronics. I now run a computer repair business (Its not Albert's PC Repair as it is in my icon. I can't change the thing for the life of me no matter what I do. haha). He probably started smashing the place up once he found out he actually got a job there. Realized he finally hit rock bottom.

[Lucas Posted Feb 11th 2010 8:01PM]

@ThePCRehabLLC Hehe, I know someone who works at Walmart, he said it used to be cool, now they're a very greedy company and if he could get another job, he'd leave.

[The REAL Lol Posted Feb 12th 2010 10:53AM]

@Lucas Radioshack is a ripoff, $30 for a cable.