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Destruction Therapy
By Spooky on June 26th, 2008 Category: Events, Funny, Videos LIKE DISLIKE
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Is wacking away violently at used cars and broken home appliances a therapy against stress? Well it is in Spain.

Three Spanish entrepreneurs came up with the idea back in 2003 and it has evolved into a profitable business. Basically people pay to smash cars, washing machines, refrigerators, television-sets with jackhammers, thus relieving stress. It’s called Destruction Therapy or Destructotherapy and the latest session took place this Saturday in Castejon, northern Spain. Participants got to pick from different tools and use their rage to pulverize different objects.

One more interesting fact about this Destruction Therapy is that 40% of the participants are women. It’s not certain that Destruction Therapy (Destructotherapy) really has a therapeutic effect, but it’s definitely fun.

The photos are taken at the event that tok place this year in Castijon and the video was shot back in 2005.


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Destruction Therapy Promises Peace by Sledgehammer

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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June 21, 2008: Participants destroy a car with sledgehammers during an anti-stress session before a town fiesta in Castejon, northern Spain.

It sounds like a good, safe way to take out some aggression — get a bunch of people together to beat the heck out of cars, appliances and other household items.

But is it therapy?

A group of Spaniards say, yes. Their "destruction therapy" sessions have become popular for folks looking to leave their workday inhibitions behind, and the latest event, held Saturday in the northern Spain town of Castejon, marked the first time the aggression session was open to the general public, according to Reuters.

Destruction Therapy, or Destructotherapy, was founded in 2003 by three Spanish entrepreneurs who wanted to offer a way to relieve participants' pent-up rage at office life — in an outdoor, supervised setting — according to a profile in Sterling Magazine.

The "patients" pay for the chance to choose from a variety of tools, which they then use to whack the crap out of objects gathered from junkyards and other sources, according to Sterling Magazine, which reported that the sessions typically last about an hour. About 40 percent of participants are women, the magazine said.

Whether such activities have any long-term therapeutic value is debatable, but participants seem to have fun in the process. A video of one Destruction Therapy session from 2005 shows a clan of destructionists gleefully wielding their sledgehammers against junked cars while a rock band plays on the periphery.


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