Enraged US man shoots his malfunctioning computer

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Enraged US man shoots his malfunctioning computer

 

A man in the US city of Colorado Springs faces police action after becoming so frustrated with his computer that he took it outside and shot it eight times, police say.

 

"He was having technology problems, so he took it to the back alley and destroyed it," a police spokesman said.

 

Lucas Hinch was briefly detained for discharging a firearm within the city.

 

He did not realise he was breaking the law when he went "Wild West" on his machine, local media reported.

 

A judge is due to decide what penalty he will receive.

 

"He got tired of fighting with his computer for the last several months," police spokesman Jeff Strossner told the Colorado Springs Gazette.

 

The paper said that Mr Hinch "shot the darn thing" when ctrl+alt+delete - the traditional method used to re-boot computers - "consistently did not work" on Monday evening.

 

"He was able to wreak the kind of revenge most of us only dream about," the paper said. "The computer is not expected to recover."

Source: BBC News

 

Hum doesn't live in Colorado, does he? 

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uh it's been a very long time since ctrl alt del has been used to reboot computers, unless you are still in an OS that doesn't override that interrupt... when was the last time in a modern OS did you reboot with that?... I can't even remember, windows 3.11?

 

 

oh and the article is giving me an internal server error, but love the error page ha...

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The paper said that Mr Hinch "shot the darn thing" when ctrl+alt+delete - the traditional method used to re-boot computers - "consistently did not work" on Monday evening

 

 

 

must of been running windows 98 or below.

 

because those commands dont reboot the computer anymore. it brings up option screen.

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The paper said that Mr Hinch "shot the darn thing" when ctrl+alt+delete - the traditional method used to re-boot computers - "consistently did not work" on Monday evening

 

 

 

must of been running windows 98 or below.

 

because those commands dont reboot the computer anymore. it brings up option screen.

I thought windows 95/98 ctrl+alt+del brought up a small task manager asking what programs you wanted to close and said press it again to reboot

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I thought windows 95/98 ctrl+alt+del brought up a small task manager asking what programs you wanted to close and said press it again to reboot

your right.

 

but still that doesnt work that way with newer operation system.

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