Thursday, March 06, 2003

Abort, Fail, Reload, Or, "Dude, I'm Gonna Blow You To Hell"

George Doughty hung his latest hunting trophy on the wall of his Sportsman's Bar and Restaurant. Then he went to jail.

The problem was the trophy was Doughty's laptop computer.

He shot it four times, as customers watched, after it crashed once too often.

He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons....

In police reports, Doughty said that he realized afterward that he shouldn't have shot his computer but at the time it seemed like the right thing to do. -- Washington Post, March 5

Doughty has been nominated for the NRA's prestigious David M. Keene Imperfect Self-Defense Award.

(Thanks to Mac Diva.)

No comments: