How to break a camcorder without really trying

Eat a huge piece of birthday cake.  Run around the house like you were just infused with epinephrine.  Tap the little miniature pincher dog, that your grandmother loves more than life itself, on the head and make it chase you.  Go ahead.  Take your shoes off so you can slide on the wood floors, as the miniature pincher yaps at your heels.  You yourself must yap like the dog, but it really doesn’t sound like a dog, it sounds more like ear piercing shrieks that can shatter glass.  Slide around the kitchen, shrieking, even though you have been told to stop 10 times.  Slip and slide past Grandma.  Be sure and grab the camcorder strap that is hanging off as you slide under the kitchen table.  Now the important part……..begin crying HARD before mom even has a chance to yell, as she kneels on the floor picking up the shattered camcorder.  See, if you cry hysterically, Grandma will come and pick you up and cradle you, and tell you "Oh, honey, it was just an accident" and mommy will feel a tremendous amount of shame if she allows her head to spin around as she bellows REDRUM.

The good news?  Why, that would be the upgrade to DIGITAL recording.  Video feeds to come!!