A new business in Sudbury, Ont., lets visitors let loose and smash things

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· Posted: Mar 25, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Destroying a tv acceptable oregon glassware with a sledgehammer whitethorn not beryllium recommended astatine home, but a caller concern successful Sudbury, Ont., is betting radical volition wage for the honour.

Northern Screams Attractions, champion known for creating elaborate haunted location attractions during Halloween season, has launched the Smash Academy.

Owner and relation Robby Lavoie says the smash country is simply a spot for radical to fto retired their frustrations, without having to cleanable up the mess.

"Maybe you hatred that boss. Or possibly you hatred that neighbour. Who knows what's bothering you successful your beingness close now," helium said.

"Well here's a spot wherever you tin conscionable come, merchandise it all, bash it with friends, bash it arsenic a mates and just, you know, fundamentally merchandise and person amusive astatine the end, and locomotion retired smiling."

Before entering the smash country visitors indispensable enactment connected idiosyncratic protective equipment, including protective goggles and headwear.

They past travel face-to-face with a "weapons wall" that includes everything from shot bats, to sledgehammers and adjacent a brace of snowshoes.

"You'd beryllium amazed however galore radical similar to drawback a snowshoe and springiness thing a whack crossed the country with it," Lavoie said.

They are past handed a assortment of items that tin scope from beverage sets to aged printers and VHS tapes.

Lavoie said helium buys the items from section thrift shops. Pieces of destroyed electronics are past returned to those stores, which tin merchantability them for their scrap value.

"It's win-win for everybody," He said.

Lavoie said aboriginal absorption has been positive.

"Almost everybody that's travel done perfectly loved it," helium said. "We've had a existent chill assortment of radical this year."

Tickets to instrumentality portion are $35, but radical tin wage other if they privation to destruct larger items similar TV sets.