Bar owner shoots computer

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Lafayette, colo. -- George Doughty says his laptop crashed once too often.

So the pub owner shot it four times as customers watched in his sportsman's bar and restaurant in Lefayette.

The dead computer is now hanging as a trophy on the wall of the tavern.

Police Lt. Rick Bashor admits the incident is kind of funny. But he said firgin a gun in the bar endangered customers.

Doughty has a court appearance scheduled for Wednesday.

He says that at the time it seemed like the right thing to do.

On a somewhat related note, there used to be phenomenon (30 years ago?) where people pissed at something on TV (doubtless they wre men) would pop out a pistol and blast away at the TV. Unfortunately for them, the TV's of the time were able to shoot back and it killed them.

I'm not sure how differently TV's are designed today (if at all) to prevent this, but what happens is the CRT (cathod ray tube, the front face is coated with phosphorescence which glows brightly when struck by electrons from the "electron gun" at the back) is a vacuume-sealed heavy duty tempered glass structure that, once punctured (say, by a bullet) from the front causes a rapid change in air pressure. The glass structure was not designed to withstand the forces involved with the pressure change and would implode accordingly. Because of the nature of the implosion, and because the electron gun is one of the thickest, most structurally complex portions of the CRT, the electron gun itself would survive the implosion and, being set in motion by the implosion is launched forward at a high velocity from the back of the TV set, through the front and right into the body of the attacker.

This all occurs in a fraction of a second: gun fire, implosion, electrongun hurtled forward, killing the shooter. Yes, people HAVe been killed by their TV's!

That's hillarious. I'm never shooting my TV again.

Man, a little hot-tempered, are we?

Lesson Learned: Be a wise little grasshopper and shoot TV from different angle.

i shot a tv once. it was broken and i just blew it apart with a shotgun in some field (saw office space too many times )

I liked the day a radio station came to our building for a secretaries computer toss. It was just the monitor but they had it all laid out and the secretary that tossed it the farthest won something, (don't remember what it was).

im sure all those people who have died from shooting a t.v. are mad because now we have the flatscreen plasma ones and they would have lived if they shot at one of those instead of the ones with the cathode ray tubes. they could have atleast waited a few more years. but who would want to shoot a 5 thousand dollar t.v.?