Here’s a story you never hear about Mac users.
A 37-year-old Colorado man was so frustrated with his malfunctioning Dell XPS 410 desktop that he pulled out a pistol and proceeded to unload eight rounds right into its worthless side.
“I just had it,” said Lucas Hinch, who apparently took the machine out behind the “homeopathic herb store” he operates (remember: Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. *cough*), withdrew a 9mm pistol out of his belt, and kept on firing at the computer until the chamber went click, click, click.
Responding to reports of gunfire, Hinch was then ticketed by police for discharging his gun within city limits, which is a misdemeanor. Hinch, though, doesn’t seem to care. He told the Los Angeles Times:
“It was glorious,” he said. “Angels sung on high.”…
“It was premeditated, oh, definitely,” he said. “I made sure there wasn’t anything behind it and nothing to ricochet.”
Hinch also had his pistol confiscated, and it’s unclear if or when he will get it back.
As for why Hinch decided to blow his Dell’s brains out? The culprit was an endless succession of Blue Screens of Death. What else?
Dude. You should have bought a Mac.
Source: LA Times
Via: Ars Technica
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
14 responses to “Herb-smoking gunman blows his Dell computer’s brains out”
Funny because my Dell mobo fried over the weekend and that was my last straw with Dell/Windows. Picked up a MacbookPro this week and I love it.
Read this on PCWorld yesterday but you made it sound a lot better!
If it was an intel Dell he could have maybe Hackintoshed it. lol
He was frustrated with a 7 year old computer? Sounds like he hits the pipe a little to much.
My Mother has my old MacBook and it’s 8 years old. You shouldn’t bought a Mac Dude!
Lol….I have a XPS 400 that is 9 years old and runs fine. So what now?
My old Dell was about that age when I made the switch and ducked the looming Vista mess. The office gave me an IBM laptop the same year. Both machines had the same CPU, RAM, everything… even had the similar benchmark testing results.
While my Mac only needed a new battery pack, the wireless adapter and two failed hard drives had to be replaced on the IBM. Never mind all the software problems with that IBM laptop. I will never spend my money on a WinTel machine ever again.
Strange, I had the same experience with a Mac. That is why I don’t bother with the overpriced hunks of aluminium.
I’m a dell fan. They aren’t bad at all.
I’ve had a few of those. They are the crappiest lowest end Dell they could make and still ship a “computer”. The ones I’ve touched all died from crap power supplies and crap caps on the motherboards, I”m surprised it lasted this long for him, the ones I had died ages ago.
Maybe it was you and not the computers.
Marihuana don’t do that, don’t be ridiculous, and non sense, your coment is totally absurd, and with bad intention, besides is like you didn’t know about anything, so eclesiaistic, hahaha.
Good on you. I still have my old Dell. It makes a bloody good door stop.
Bloody hell it’s from 2006 what did the dude want from the thing? Mac was still running Tiger and Intel was the hot new thing in Apple. He should have had some flavor of Linux on that beast, not Windows.