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Man puts 8 bullets in his Dell, tells police it’s worth the ticket

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On Monday around 7pm, 37-year-old Colorado Springs resident Lucas Hinch took his Dell XPS 410 out into the alley behind the building where he lives and runs a homeopathic herb store, pulled out his 9mm handgun, and put eight bullets through the PC, in cold blood.

The Dell, it seems, had been causing Hinch trouble in recent months and gave him a blue screen of death for what turned out to be the final time on that fateful evening. It’s unclear what version of Windows the computer was running before it met its demise.
via ars technica

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Image: Colorado Springs Police Department 

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