iPad smashing goes viral on YouTube

A video of a group of teenagers destroying a brand new iPad computer with a baseball bat has gone viral on YouTube. The video of the smashing of the $500 device outside a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh had already attracted more than 750,000 views on the video-sharing site last night. The Los Angeles Times caught up with Justin Kockott, the 19-year-old high school student who made the video titled "Brand new iPad getting smashed by a baseball bat".

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