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Frustrated man takes his computer out back and shoots it eight times

article published on 22 April, 2015

Lucas Hinch of Colorado Springs could face a penalty after shooting his ill-performing computer eight times. Hinch was detained very briefly for discharging a firearm and cited, but a judge will decide what kind of penalty (if any) he receives. "He was having technology problems, so he took it to the back alley and destroyed it," a police spokesman noted. "He got tired of fighting ... [ read the full article ]

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harrynutz
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 01:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The computer had it coming :)
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Mysttic
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 08:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's very relaxing. 20 years ago I took mine out to a baseball diamond (it was broken beyond repair and it was too old to bother replacing parts) so I took an aluminum bat to it. I made sure to have all the parts inside unscrewed so I could play baseball and then I took hard blows to the chassis. I did clean up the mess afterwards. I also made sure nobody was around at the time I did it, as I didn't want to explain to the cops my fits of rage at a machine.
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thatBeatsguy
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 09:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess this is what is called Rage Against the Machine.
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hearme0
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 11:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by thatBeatsguy:
 I guess this is what is called Rage Against the Machine.
:)
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Interestx
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 19:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looks like a Dell Dimension.
Poor old thing.
Mine (albeit with several upgrades) is still going strong, great PCs in my opinion ;)
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ivymike
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_ 		23. April 2015 @ 20:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
He missed the power supply, LOL.
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DXR88
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_ 		26. April 2015 @ 14:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i wonder if the bullet pierced the heat sink. the aluminum they use is pretty good at stopping projectiles.
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KillerBug
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_ 		27. April 2015 @ 15:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Interestx:
 Looks like a Dell Dimension.
Poor old thing.
Mine (albeit with several upgrades) is still going strong, great PCs in my opinion ;)
Yeah...but it doesn't count as "still going strong" when you have to replace all the capacitors yourself.

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 i wonder if the bullet pierced the heat sink. the aluminum they use is pretty good at stopping projectiles.
That all depends on the projectile. I've seen what a 10MM auto does to solid steel plate...but then I've also seen a 45 ACP bullet bounce around inside a beer can rather than punch through the back side (to be fair this doesn't happen much).
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