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Drunken Employee Shoots Server
Target Practice writes "A drunken mortgage worker at RANLife Home Loans decided for unknown reasons to take out the company's $100,000 server with a .45-caliber automatic, blaming the damage on an imagined assailant who: mugged him, assaulted him with his own weapon, drugged him, and then broke into his office to shoot said server. According to acquaintances, he had threatened earlier that day to shoot the server and maybe himself."
Police did find a knife on the floor, corroborating his account that the server came at him first.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Alcohol. Is there anything it can't do?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Is there a sysadmin among us that hasn't, at one time or another, wanted to shoot a server?
"Automatic" probably does not mean what you think it means.
"Automatic" weapons are typically ones that fire continuously as long as the trigger is pressed.
It can also mean "automatic" as in it resets for you. This second usage is a little archaic and is now commonly called 'semi-automatic'.
They always try to blame it on the hardware.
Has anyone considered that maybe the server deserved it?
I shot the server
(but I did not shoot the disk array)
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Rumor has it that the server was seen holding what the mortgage officer thought was a weapon. The officer drew and repeatedly fired his weapon, pausing to reload 15 times because he believed his life was in danger. The server was fatally hit by 87 rounds, most of them entering through the rear of the chassis. No other weapon was found at the scene. The mortgage officer has been put on temporary desk assignment while an investigation is held.
The article didn't even mention if the server was ok or not.
If he has a CCW permit and the business he was at does not have a posted sign or policy and he was following local laws and ordinances, it's fully within his right to carry if he feels the need to. Why does it matter if he was at his desk job or anywhere else? He may live in a very bad part of town, or the business he's works at could be in a high crime area. You don't fully know the details and asking "why does he need X" is no different than asking "why does this person need privacy if he's not doing anything wrong" or any asking why anyone would be doing any activity that you yourself might not agree with or may find questionable, even if it is fully within his rights under the law.
You tread a slippery slope...
It's not "laziness". It's intentional and overt manipulation. They want to sex up the article.
"Man fires pistol into computer" just isn't sexy enough.
It sounds more like Alexander Hamilton losing his temper than Rambo. It's not exciting enough.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The police who responded immediately called for backup.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Funny... I was just hearing from George Lucas that the server shot first.
"I shot the server, but I didn't shoot no DVD"
"a lot of box" and "Physics department" are two terms not often associated with one another.....