[78-L] Juvenile behavior (mine)

[estott at localnet.com]

Quoting Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>:

> Somebody mentioning "burning 78s" reminded me of an experiment I made about
> 20 years ago.  A friend and I took a worthless and spoiled (large digs)
> Edison Diamond Disk and tried to break it (yes,  we had too much free time).
>
> We tossed it out of a third story window onto concrete,  kicked it like a
> football (ouch),  etc. etc.  Didn't work
>
> Finally we set it at an angle against the curb and I drove my car ('84
> Eldorado,  damn heavy) over the thing and it finally broke.
>
> I was just curious if anyone else had ever tried such "experiments" with an
> Edison DD and if so,  what happened?
>

  I found that if you take one and hold it horizontally, parallel to a 
concrete floor, and let it fall so it lands flat it will shatter.

  Eric Stott