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Rage Rooms: A Place Where Respectable Adults Can Smash Stuff

Jennifer Wing
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KNKX
Host SMASH.

This story originally aired on March 31, 2018.

Sometimes, you just want to smash. 

Credit Gabriel Spitzer / KNKX
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KNKX
Gabriel Spitzer and Jennifer Wing, all suited up and ready to destroy.

Who hasn’t fantasized about taking out their frustrations with, say, a baseball bat or a sledge hammer? 

Of course, this sort of thing is frowned upon in polite society. But there are places around the country where you can pay money to release the beast within, with some degree of safety and without having to clean up the mess: “rage rooms.”  

Sound Effect’s Jennifer Wing and Gabriel Spitzer visited one of these businesses, Rage Industry in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. And they quickly discovered that there’s nothing quite so clarifying as pulverizing some beer bottles, mason jars and ceramic knick-knacks. 

Jennifer Wing leads the KNKX News department. She is an award winning journalist whose work has aired on various outlets including NPR, the BBC, Marketplace and the Third Coast Podcast. Reach her at jwing@knkx.org.
Gabriel Spitzer is a fill-in reporter, producer and host who previously covered science and health and worked on the KNKX show Sound Effect.