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Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the disgruntled-customers dept.

Pooua writes to tell us that an explosive device left outside of PayPal headquarters exploded last night. The explosion was powerful enough to knock out one of their plate glass windows but thankfully that was the only casualty of the blast. Perhaps they should have offered employee protection instead?

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  1. Shouldn't be too difficult.. by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't be too difficult to find the culprit, just look for someone extremely dissatisfied with their service.

    Seriously, anyone who thought they were having a bad time of it with PayPal will find that experience pales compared to the bad time they'll have for planting a bomb.

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    1. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. by wizbit · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shouldn't be too difficult to find the culprit, just look for someone extremely dissatisfied with their service.

      Great, that narrowed down the list by about two. Any other ideas?

    2. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. by Frymaster · · Score: 5, Funny
      Great, that narrowed down the list by about two. Any other ideas?

      yeah. paypal set the bomb off themselves. now, if anyone complains about paypal's service, they instantly become a suspect in a 'terrorist' act.

      great way to guarantee customer satisfaction!

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    3. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Funny
      Shouldn't be too difficult to find the culprit, just look for someone extremely dissatisfied with their service.

      There is absolutely no way that a customer could have planted this bomb. Nobody who has ever been a PayPal customer has any idea how to contact PayPal, let alone their actual physical address...

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    4. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. by cshark · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or how about this:
      Since we're talking about hypothetical conspiracies.

      Paypal is owned by Ebay, who is largely controlled by the Saudis (don't actually know that, but it sounds good). The Bush Administration needed to demonstrate that we are still not safe in this country to the voting public (after all, it is an election year). So a call was placed to management at Ebay. Anyway, the Saudis worked with their contacts to find a bomber, who was more than happy to place the bomb (after all everyone knows there's no such thing as domestic terrorism, doncha know). And a deal was made, a bomb was placed, and a justification for ever more strict legislation was offered. Now to see if we take the bait as voters and elect more Republicans in California. Moo hah hah...

      I think it all comes down to this:
      Will Paypal start selling pie?
      I believe they will.
      But only apple, and you will be required to like it.

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    5. Re:Shouldn't be too difficult.. by funfail · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, no... Somebody set up them the bomb. For great justice.

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  2. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happen?

    1. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apparently someone set up paypal the bomb.

    2. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Operator: We get negative feedback.

    3. Re:Obligatory by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      That'll teach 'em to say "All your money are belong to us".

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    4. Re:Obligatory by AgentGibbled · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dissatisfied Customer: "How are you gentlemen !! All your [plate glass window] are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction."

  3. Surprised it took this long by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, if I had a nickle for every time I wanted to bomb Paypal, I'd have... er... probably a real hassle getting all the money out of my Paypal account.

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  4. Great. Now if they start offering actual service.. by weston · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... then the terrorists will have already have won.

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  5. Halloween parties at PayPal... by thewiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    are a blast!

    So I've heard.

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  6. It was me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was the person who sold this explosive device to an excellent ebayer, A+++++++, fast payment, would highly recommend doing business!

  7. Thank God ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... it was not a nukelar bomb.

    George

    1. Re:Thank God ... by Kelson · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe the proper term is "nukular," an abbreviation of "nuke-you-la'r," itself a contraction of "nuke you later," a traditional Texan greeting derived from the intense heat of a Texan barbecue grill. Essentially, one is saying that the other person is always welcome at a barbecue.

      How the term jumped over to fission/fusion-based weapons, I couldn't begin to guess.

  8. I imagine... by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chargeback my account eh!!?

    I imagine when some saw a headline "PayPal Bombed" they thought, "They certainly have."

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    1. Re:I imagine... by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

      What happened to "violence can be used for good?"

      Clearly this was done by North Korean agents. We'll be invading in fifteen minutes.

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  9. Re:Radiological?? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because Kim Jong apparently had his paypal account frozen the week before.

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  10. Re:Funny? by TheCarp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kind of like all the contractors on the death star?

    -Steve

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  11. PayPal follow up email by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please rate your experience at PayPal:

    A) Excellent
    B) Good
    C) Average
    D) Poor
    E) Want to bomb your damn company

    Thank you!

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  12. I miss the good old days by moochfish · · Score: 2, Funny

    What ever happened to leaving flaming sacks of crap on a porch??

  13. I knew . . . by ElephanTS · · Score: 4, Funny

    I knew about this. I got an email saying that all of PayPal's servers had blown up and they had lost all my personal and banking information. Luckily I simply followed the link they provided (things must be bad over there - they didn't even use the regular PayPal URL) and updated all my info. Thanks to PayPal for their quick customer service and helping me avert this little disaster.

    Were eBay affected by this? I've just got an email from them now . . .

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  14. Negative Feedback by daveewart · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Postage was quick, but the item exploded upon arrival."

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  15. LOL, I am going to be a suspect. by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have been with them for a long time too. I have allways been happy, but I had this one issue recently. I could not pay for an ebay auction because the seller requires a confirmed address. No big, I go through the steps to confirm, and get cycle errors. No big, I contact the seller and tell them about my issues, they say call paypal, and they can fix this for you. I contact paypal, and spend about 60 minutes on hold, and 15 minutes arguing with the "supervisor" about how waiting for 15 minutes and trying again is not going to solve my problems (they tried the classic "get him off the phone" routine.)

    I was extremely upset, and after spending almost 80 minutes (yes 60 + 20 in one call) on hold, geting into an arguement with the "supervisor" I decided it just wasn't worth it!

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  16. Re:Radiological?? by Kelson · · Score: 2, Funny
    It might be easy for you, but I wouldn't know how to get my hands on that kind of stuff.

    Yeah. I'm sure in the future plutonium will be available at every corner drugstore, but in 2006 it's a little hard to come by.

  17. Re:Not very big by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Er... As someone who lived in the UK during the IRA bombing campaign I can suggest that if the 'bomb' only broke a few windows then it wasn't exactly huge. Consider this atrocity

    Yeah, Americans have no sense of perspective. Brits live with it, and go on with life... I can just imagine if some Irish blokes terror-bombed the US like this -- I guess Bush would have carpet bombed Sweden and occupied Denmark in retaliation.