Man Gets Drunk, Shoots Company Server With .45
A man from Salt Lake City is facing charges after he got wasted and shot the server at work with a .45-caliber gun.
The last few weeks has seen a huge amount of discussion regarding Steven Slater, the JetBlue air steward who quit his job in the most spectacular of fashions. Right before he cracked open the door and inflated the emergency slide, he let loose on the passengers with a tirade riddled with profanity. Aside from misusing safety equipment and stealing beer from the drinks trolley, Slater didn't really do much damage to JetBlue property.
The same cannot be said for 23-year-old Joshua Lee Campbell, who recently shot his company's computer server with a .45-caliber automatic. Campbell was reportedly out drinking with a colleague prior to the incident. He later returned to the mortgage company's offices with his .45-caliber gun and proceeded to bust a cap in the company's $100,000 computer server. Though it seems like a stupid move, Campbell already had his story straight for the cops. He told police that he had been assaulted, mugged and drugged.
Despite his claims that his weapon had been stolen during the attack, coworkers came forward and said Campbell had threatened to shoot the server earlier that evening. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Mr. Campbell has been charged with carrying a dangerous weapon while under the influence and providing false information to police, both Class B misdemeanors; and public intoxication, a Class C misdemeanor. No word on what the server did to deserve getting whacked in the middle of the night.
More on the Salt Lake Tribune.
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um... semi-automatic?
Civilians aren't normally given licenses to own automatic weapons in the states.
.45 ACP, because shooting twice is silly.
BOOM HEADSHOT!!!
News from my home town! Yea!
Perfect picture!
ACP = Automatic Colt Pistol
um... semi-automatic?Civilians aren't normally given licenses to own automatic weapons in the states.
You can get them, but you have to be willing to pay...
You can get them, but you have to be willing to pay...
That crossed my mind but owning an illegal firearm was not in the list of charges.
Oh man, I know that feeling! I can't count the number of times I've gotten frustrated with a machine and felt like putting a bullet in it (or at the very least, tossing it out a window).
um... semi-automatic?Civilians aren't normally given licenses to own automatic weapons in the states.
In the media the usually call a semi-automatic a automatic, were as fully automatic, they call a machine gun. Makes everything sound more dramatic.
Sure guns are not that hard to come by since 50cal riffles are still legal in some states. As for shooting the server this isn't the first time this has happened.
Good thing he took it out this server before it turned into HAL-9000 or Joshua
I knew the movie "Terminator" was bull****, see 1 bullet takes down a machine.
He got pissed because of the bots on the server always killing them, so killed all of them in one shot.
high tech redneck FTW
I knew the movie "Terminator" was bull****, see 1 bullet takes down a machine.
Nah, I work in the aerospace industry. One of the greybeards once was talking about a project where they had to design a system processor card (with all kinds of chips on it) that could take a hit from a 50-cal bullet and survive. This meant lots of redundant chips and paths spread all about the board. Long story short, you don't even need the Terminator's titanium-alloy skeleton to protect from a single bullet.
That being said, NO commercial server is going to be designed to eat lead and survive, not from IBM, not from Cray, not from nobody.
If got drunk with a bottle of whisky in one hand a revolver in the other I take my vengeance out on the damn printer!
Didn't stream his porn fast enough.
You can get them, but you have to be willing to pay...
Common Sense from Western Pennsylvania tells me that you'd need a Class 3 license in order to legally own a fully-automatic weapon. I personally really enjoy shooting .45 ACP handguns... I'm glad nobody on here has said "Just another reason to ban Handguns" yet. Not to go off-topic, but banning handguns would make it illegal for the common citizen to own one, but do you think the people that are using them for the worse will care that they're illegal?
If got drunk with a bottle of whisky in one hand a revolver in the other I take my vengeance out on the damn printer!
Amen. I hate my printer about ten times more than anything I own, yet I can't live without it...
I knew the movie "Terminator" was bull****, see 1 bullet takes down a machine.
Until Apple starts making servers out of liquid metal.
i1000 anyone?
ACP = Automatic Colt Pistol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Colt_Pistol
The "ACP" part denotes the ammunition, which can be used in both automatic and semi-automatic weapons. It is a very heavy projectile with slow speed, but big stopping power.
Also, there are some automatic weapons that are legal in some states. It doesn't say he was charged with illegal discharging of a firearm, so it sounds like Utah has some loose laws regarding firearms, which fits their generally conservative positions on other political matters. It might have been an automatic. There are very few that use .45 caliber, and only one that is available here in the US: the MAC-10. It's possible he used an automatic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_10
Common Sense from Western Pennsylvania tells me that you'd need a Class 3 license in order to legally own a fully-automatic weapon. I personally really enjoy shooting .45 ACP handguns... I'm glad nobody on here has said "Just another reason to ban Handguns" yet. Not to go off-topic, but banning handguns would make it illegal for the common citizen to own one, but do you think the people that are using them for the worse will care that they're illegal?
you could take the California police point of view: "just cooperate and be a good witness so we can catch them later". total BS to me, but some people believe it.
I live in Salt Lake so this is very funny. Also, the author of the article called the .45 an 'automatic'. .45 ACP is an acronym for Automatic Colt Pistol. Like 50 BMG means Browning Machine Gun. Yet, some Barret sniper rifles are chambered in .50BMG and they are bolt action or semi automatic, not "machine guns". Please, Jane, do a little more research.
At least he used a large caliber instead of a puny 9mm or 38 garbage.
This will look good on his resume!
The server had it coming, looking all smug and shiny.
Probably made horrible noises too.
Best news all week. So is he charged with first degree murder? Servers are like children, or pets... especially a server that costs 100000$.
That crossed my mind but owning an illegal firearm was not in the list of charges.
it's not illegal if you have a class 3 license. but it's expensive... that's what he was getting at
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It is completely legal to own semi-automatic weapons in any state
Utah does not have any OPPRESSIVE UNCONSTITUTIONAL laws like Kalifornia and such. Semi automatic simply means one shot per every squeze of the trigger until out of ammo. that has nothing to do whatsoever with a machine gun which is FULL-auto. Lot's of anti-gun LIBTARDS even on toms hardware, amazing.
Rolling around on the floor LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!