My Friend Destroyed His Computer...Literally!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is actually kind of sad.

I have a friend who is a little odd, and very socially awkward. He’s nearly 50 years old, has never been married or had a partner at all that I’m aware of. He barely made it through highschool and has been working a variety of low-paying, dead end, part time jobs his entire life. He lives alone, in a dirty little studio apartment in some old woman’s basement.

He’s very lonely, and among our circle of friends, he’s made no secret of the fact that he enjoys internet porn in order to satisfy himself.

He called me this morning and told me he’d smashed his computer to pieces with a hammer. He did this because while he was doing his usual web-surfing, a window popped up that said he had searched and downloaded illegal porn and that if he didn’t immediately pay $400 (via credit card) the police and FBI would be at his door within 15 minutes.

I don’t know what genre of porn he enjoys, and I don’t want to know. I almost didn’t have the heart to explain it to him, but I did ultimately tell him it wasn’t real and he didn’t have to do that.

I feel so bad for him.

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He’s still smarter than (and better off than) people who get fooled and provide their credit card number.

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If he was maybe a little bit smarter, he would have realized that the only thing he really needed to smash was the hard drive, not the entire computer. :smack:

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Those people only get charged $400[sup]*[/sup]. How much was the computer worth?

  • Yeah, I know scammers like that aren’t exactly going to be scrupulous about what they charge.

Hey, the feds were gonna be there in 15; you wanna waste time looking for a screwdriver?

5

I think that a lot of the malware folks have migrated from porn sites to illegal download sites.

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How much do you want to bet that for all his smashing he wouldn’t have protected himself from the Feds, if the Feds really were 15 minutes away, and he really did have illegal stuff on his computer?

7

Why do starving people like to spend their time looking at pictures of hamburger?

8

The Futurama game on my phone runs sarcastic messages while loading, and one of them says, “Tap with hammer to reveal prize.”

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From OP’s description of his friend, maybe he’s better off not having a computer. Maybe now he’ll get out more and maybe even start having a life – even if just a little bit.

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What’s his Doper handle?

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Leather Rutabaga, or something like that.
mmm

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Doesn’t he know that Masturbation is a Direct Path to Satan?