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.
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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...
That crossed my mind but owning an illegal firearm was not in the list of charges.
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.
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.
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?
Amen. I hate my printer about ten times more than anything I own, yet I can't live without it...
Until Apple starts making servers out of liquid metal.
i1000 anyone?