Friday, August 27, 2010

Human factors: drunken employee blasts server with .45 handgun

Dude! Chill! EVERYBODY wants to shoot them!

A variety of news outlets are reporting an incident in Salt Lake City in which an employee of a mortgage company allegedly got drunk at a concert, returned to his office and put several .45 caliber bullets into a company server with a handgun. Damage was estimated at $100,000.

According to police, Joshua Lee Campbell, who worked for RANLife Home Loans, is facing charges of:
-- felony criminal mischief (second-degree felony)
-- carrying a dangerous weapon while under the influence (class B misdemeanor)
-- providing false information to police (class B misdemeanor)

Police said Campbell told them he�d been beaten, robbed of his gun and given drugs by his attackers. When police interviewed Campbell�s friends, however, they said he had threatened to shoot the machine.

Most news outlets played the story straight, though some couldn�t resist the humor. RightPundits.com accompanied the story with a clip from the movie �Office Space� of three guys destroying a computer with a baseball bat.

KAKE TV in Wichita, Kan. Ran the headline: �Employee Tries To Reboot Computer With Gun�

Tom Kelchner

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