Whether it’s a blue screen of death, a kernel panic, or even just a lag in Firefox, sometimes we just want to smash our computers. It’s perfectly OK to want to do so, but to actually do it takes some iron balls. A German man in Hanover had the iron pair and actually managed to get angry enough at his PC to chuck it out a window, smashing to pieces on the ground below.
When police arrived on the scene, the officer should have fined the man for creating a public disturbance. Instead, he sympathized with the man and his computer frustration, saying “Who hasn’t felt like doing that?” Very true my good man. The German man who threw the PC didn’t receive any fines, but he had to clean up the mess.
German hurls computer from apartment block [The Register]
For the guys sake, I hope he didn’t throw out an LCD monitor with Mercury in it out the window… :P
Let me know the next time anyone decides to throw out their MacBook Pro.
I’ll be there to catch it.. :D
Germany is great. I throw old junk out of my window all the time- I live in *former* east Berlin (eastsiiiide), and even though unification happened over ten years ago there is STILL a permanent construction site in our block’s inner court. This means that when something doesn’t work, I just let it test its ability to fly from the 7th floor. Achtung, baby!