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Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-geek-squad-terms-of-service dept.

Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.

Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.

Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!

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  1. He should have put in a blank hard drive by pfunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He should have replaced the hard drive with a blank formatted hard drive. Then when the realty office tried to start the system and it wouldn't boot, take the computer back to his office or shop and retrieve the "lost" data.