Man Shoots Girlfriend’s Computer After Installing Windows Vista

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Friday night in Columbia South Carolina, ex-law enforcement officer Ray Jackson lost his temper while trying to repair his girlfriend’s computer.

After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend’s 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new operating system. “He couldn’t get anything to work like it was supposed to”, said girlfriend Wanda White. “He just kept screaming at it and smacking the side of the computer”.


White had heard enough cursing from her boyfriend and went next door to her friend’s apartment. After about 20 minutes White and her friend heard gun shots from the apartment where Jackson was working. “We both ran over there to see what was happening”, said White. When she opened the door there sat Jackson with his pistol in his hand. He had just shot the computer 5 times and missed once. The miss had gone into the neighbors apartment and the bullet was lodged into their refrigerator.Jackson is being held at the Corrections Department of S.C. His bail hearing will be held Monday morning.Courtesy of The State Paper.
 

Cosmo

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:laughing6: :laughing6: Man, I so get that!! Score one for "right to bear arms".

I've heard (from smart folk) that Vista is a pain in the arse. Thankfully I've been too lazy to switch!
 

Unforgiven

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:laughing6: :laughing6: Man, I so get that!! Score one for "right to bear arms".

I've heard (from smart folk) that Vista is a pain in the arse. Thankfully I've been too lazy to switch!

Just like 3.1/95/98/XP Vista is on par with all the previous versions. I been using it since March and it's not that bad. You do have to work out a lot of bugs as you do with any new version of Windows.

As for the cop in the story, dude, it's called a geek.
 

DaSleeper

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Probably just that new mouse he was trying.......:smile:
 

DurkaDurka

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Vista isn't that bad, I have been running it day to day for about 6 months now. The biggest problem with it so far has been the fact that 3'rd party developers have released really crappy drivers for the OS or none at all for that matter.
 

L Gilbert

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I think the real lesson here is ... DON'T INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA!
Better moral of the story is not to miss. :D Or else use a shotgun with large shot. hehehe Too bad the perpetrators of things like Vista don't have profiles where we could get their pics and display them onscreen to have a good target. lol Gotta be better than shooting a relatively nondescript box on a desk.
 

acidcomplex

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:laughing6: :laughing6: Man, I so get that!! Score one for "right to bear arms".

I've heard (from smart folk) that Vista is a pain in the arse. Thankfully I've been too lazy to switch!

Those people arent so smart, If you know how to use Vista it is far superior to all other versions of Windows. I have not had a single problem with Vista but Im a tech geek and know how to use it, people are afraid of what they dont understand.
 

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My only problem with Vista is that after quite a while of surfing through websites the websites stop loading. So I close internet explorer and then activate agian and all is good for a little while longer, then it does the same thing. Even Window Media doesn't load. So I restart my comp. and all is good again. I never had this problem with the previous versions of Windows, what's the deal?
 

missile

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I've had more problems with my cordless keyboard and mouse than with Vista,but only have had them for a week. In time,I'll grow to hate this version of Windows just as much as all the others.
 

acidcomplex

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My only problem with Vista is that after quite a while of surfing through websites the websites stop loading. So I close internet explorer and then activate agian and all is good for a little while longer, then it does the same thing. Even Window Media doesn't load. So I restart my comp. and all is good again. I never had this problem with the previous versions of Windows, what's the deal?

How much ram do you have?. Use firefox, problem solved