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| salakjith | Posted
on 08-Mar-03 02:35 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2826587.stm An American man may face charges after he apparently shot his laptop computer in frustration after it kept crashing. George Doughty a 48-year-old from Lafayette, Colorado, was working in an office when he walked next door into the bar he owned and announced to patrons that he was going to shoot his laptop computer, local newspapers said. Mr Doughty then reportedly warned customers to cover their ears, before shooting the laptop four times. He later hung the hapless computer on his bar wall in the style of a hunting trophy, police said. 'It seemed appropriate' Local police said that the only similar case they had seen before involved a computer shot with a rifle by a man whose wife had claimed it in a divorce settlement. "It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," police officer from the Lafayette police department Rick Bashor told local newspapers. "[But] it's the first time someone shot a computer because he was upset with it." Police added that because Mr Doughty put customers and the bartender in danger, he was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and prohibited use of weapons, before being released to appear in court on a later date. Mr Doughty admitted in police reports that he should not have shot his laptop, but said that at the time it had seemed appropriate. |
| dangggg | Posted
on 17-Mar-03 02:54 AM
Couple of months ago (netscape news), a scientist in London got his genitals burnt by a laptop. He was using the laptop as usual by putting it on his lap. It got so hot that it burnt his private parts re. He was so concentrated in his work that he didn't feel his genitals burning. Maybe his research was more important to him than his useless genitals. ( reliable sources also disclosed that the sceintist wasn't getting any.) so, guys before you use a laptop, make sure that it is away from your private parts. |