A 57-year-old man was sentenced to a year's probation for threatening to blow up Brisbane, Australia with his TV remote. Geoffrey Fryatt's drunken stunt prompted Australia to declare a state of emergency in the city, send in paramilitary police to pelt Fryatt with rubber bullets and arrest him. Fryatt expressed concerns that probation would interfere with his trip overseas to do humanitarian aid work. Hmmm, a bit ironic? [Reuters]
Drunk Aussie Threatens to Blow Up City With TV Remote
7:30 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Adrian Covert
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Well yeah, but what kind of remote?
This one time, before drugs...
Probably not a TV-B-Gone. Apparently, that only causes PEOPLE to blow up....
a talk about over reacting.....
minus the "a" because i was going to say something else
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROTLMFAOOL!!!
@vr4z06gt: Try that in Washington D.C. and see what result you get, or any other major capital for that matter. I'm sure the reaction would be no less severe.
Funniest yet stupidiest thing I have ever heard all day!!!!
Not trying to audition to comment here, but it wasn't Canberra he was threatening to blow up, but Brisbane, Australia. Sorry, couldn't see any other way to let you know!
@jarque: Well sure, but we're talking about Canberra, Australia.
@strider_mt2k: It's a Sony.
Maybe this was stewie from the future?
Remotes don't kill people, people with remotes kill people.
@jarque:Please tell me your're not serious.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@jarque:
If he were to have done the same thing in Washington DC, the guy would be up for a Darwin Award ;)
this is dumber than that time it got really cold here in the south and our heater was broken, so I tried to warm myself up by microwave, but since I couldn't fit in the microwave I was gonna put myself in some water (the tub) and then put the microwave in the water (tub) with me and the warm the water (tub) with me in it (water). Needless to say my mother still won't let me out of her site to this day (which gets kinda creepy at night)
@Zan: lmao!!
ROFLMFAOAOTH (actually, I think I got lost a little bit on that one; rolling on the floor laughing my ass off all over the house, ok add: BIJFEH. because I just find everything hilarious. Can you just do that? Is it internet-legal to add a paragraph of text? Ok, I'm just inviting someone to say YAAAH. (yes, I probably sound like one but really, I'm not. and I apologize).Sorry for even going there...
Hopefully it wasn't a Universal Remote.
Botany Bay
Botany Bay....Oh no...Sir we need to get out of here...damn
Chekov what are you talking about.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
@gadgetfanatic: When I posted my first comment Gizmodo said it happened in Canberra, not Brisbane. That's why I compared it to Washington D.C. Both are national capitals.
@aaj111: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
i wonder if his 'humanitarian aid work' involves this super powerful remote?
Hahahaha
@Zan: How old are you exactly?
I believe the remote was the MX-3000. He was just going to hit the icon button labeled "Destroy Brisbane".
It still shocks me the appearance of these atomic blasts....
Terrorist invaded my home and attached a remote control device and when someone posts the word 'snoogle' it will blow up all of australia!! :o
Oh wait, nm, it was a piece of lint.
Can he make one for wives?
By any chance was his name Chance?
[cinetext.philo.at]
@flyboy:
Holy Smokes!
THat looks like... ART!
Frozen TiVo does that to ya.. :F
ridiculous! what's next... shutting down a major city because you see some Lite-Brite⢠signs?
@gadgetfanatic: 25
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