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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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  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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  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. Not very big by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From TFA
    "Whatever caused this was pretty strong,' said San Jose Fire Department Capt. Jose Guerrero. "It's tough to break one of these windows."
    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

    Looks more like the sort of thing I used to knock up as a teenager - Sodium Chlorate and sugar anyone?

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  7. Funny? by Nos. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just don't find any of this funny. Planting a bomb anywhere but in strict controlled testing areas is not a joke. Obviously this was at least meant to damage the building, and possibly even to harm people. Imagine for a minute that you're a tech at this location, regardless of who it is. You're not responsible for corporate policy. Yet you're in as much, or more danger from an attack like this than those who do make the decisions.

    I'm just glad nobody was hurt, and that the damage was relatively minor. I hope the culprit or culprits are caught quickly, and dealt with harshly.

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

      Kind of like all the contractors on the death star?

      -Steve

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  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 AusIV · · Score: 4, Informative
      A window was destroyed and this is the biggest incident of domestic terrorism in five years?

      I suppose extremists firebombing a neuro-scientist's neighbor doesn't count, since they bombed the wrong house.

      And what about bombings at abortion clinics, which have been fairly widespread since the 1970's. A friend of my family works at an abortion clinic as a counselor who tries to persuade patients not to have abortions, and her car was set on fire by abortion protestors.

      I'm not sure how you define domestic terrorism, but it hardly seems that this is the largest act of domestic terrorism this year, much less out of the last 5.

  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:What a shame by Rufus211 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What a shame the bomb wasn't bigger.

    I may not like some (a lot) of PayPall's policies, and I might wish paypall to go out of business. That said why do the 20-odd hackers that were in the building at the time deserve to be bombed?
  11. I'm not worthy of that opener...here is my best by way2trivial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Luckily, Our president is not some "RANDOM" idiot..

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  12. Paypal's service is legendary by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    and not in a good way.

    If you're using the service to buy and sell on eBay, and everything else in the transaction goes smoothly, then PayPal workd fine. However, if you have a problem (with a buyer or seller) and you try and take it up with PayPal, you're going to get screwed. Let me explain how it works:

    If you are a seller, and you ship and you "collect" money from PayPal and ship the item you sold, if the seller complains to PayPal (they can claim they didn't get the item, that it wasn't as advertised, etc.) PayPal will take the money out of your account because the transaction was "fraudulent" -- your loss: one item (which you shipped) since you won't be seeing the money. If you are a buyer, it works the other way around. If you pay for something and it never arrives, PayPal will refuse to refund the money.

    As far as I can tell, in instances where there is a dispute, PayPal collects the money for themselves and the buyer and seller are out of luck. Some of this seems to be based on "who complains first" but generally if you use PayPal and have a problem, you can kiss your money goodbye. Add to this the fact that PayPal constantly pushes linking your PayPal account to your "real" bank account (apparently so they can clean you out in one fell swoop) and you have a recipe for... well, I'd say about 5 lbs of ammonium nitrate, some black powder, and a time-delay fuse.

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  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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