Police in Colorado Springs recently responded to a call reporting that multiple gunshots had been fired. The victim: an aging Dell computer.
Owner Lucas Hinch says he’d had enough. The system had been giving him grief for several months, bogging down and throwing up errors. On the fateful night, the Dell spat out a Blue Screen of Death, and Hinch took that as a sign.
He procured a handgun from a seller on Craigslist — a 9mm Hi-Point. He unhooked the computer, dragged it into the alley behind his homeopathic herb shop, and he put 8 slugs in it at close range. So much for two in the chest, one in the head.
Officers responded, found the Dell lying cold and lifeless in the alley, and issued Hinch a citation. He says he was unaware that there was anything wrong with what he did, but is there any U.S. city the size of Colorado Springs where it’s OK to discharge a firearm in public like this?
I can’t say for sure what kind of hardware was in that tower, but I do know this. I’ve got one of those very same Dell towers at home right now (I’m repairing it for a friend), and it’s running Windows XP and a Pentium D processor. It’s not exactly what you’d call a speed demon.
It’s hard to imagine how horribly this computer had been running and for how long… but things must have been pretty bad for an herbalist to get angry enough to shoot it.
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