How to Get Rid of Aaron Brown

Next time a television set in a public place turns off without anyone waving the remote control or yanking the plug, glance around for a guy with a self-satified smirk. He could be secretly wielding a pebble-sized device called a TV-B-Gone. It does nothing more or less than, in rapid succession, beam out the ‘off’ command for thousands of known TV models. The gadget is the brainchild of Mitch Altman, a budding entrepreneur who claims that TV is like second-hand smoke: why should you be subjected to it just because someone else can’t stop himself from indulging? I called Altman and asked if the TV-B-Gone even turns off the airport TVs that are always blaring CNN as you’re trying to take a nap. "You bet," he chuckled. Well, I would never condone that, of course. Ever. No sir. And if you think it might be fun to stealthily turn off a TV set that others are watching, fine, then you deal with the burly, Aaron-Brown-loving biker who’d like to teach you some manners. If he can find you.