Police responding to a “shots fired” in an alley at 2200 W. Colorado Ave. just before 7 p.m. Monday found Lucas Hinch, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colo. with the remains of his dead desktop computer. In a police statement, Hinch said he had been fighting with his desktop for several months and had become “fed up” with it.
He carried the machine out to a back alley and shot it several times at point blank range with a handgun. Police counted eight bullet holes in the computer. The Colorado gazette is reporting that police Lt. Jeff Strossner said, “He got tired of fighting with his computer for the last several months, so he took it out in a back alley and shot it.”
Further questioning of the alleged computer killer found that he had been trying to get his computer to reboot using the traditional method – ctrl+alt+delete – but Hinch said the method “consistently did not work” on Monday evening. When Strossner filed his official report on the incident, he wrote Hinch had “executed’ his computer and it was “effectively disabled.”
In all seriousness, Hinch did not realize he was breaking the law when he discharged his firearm within the city limits. But that is exactly what the citation said when the officer handed it to him. After being detained for a very short time, he was allowed to go home. A judge will decide what kind of penalty Hinch will receive.
The desktop computer was declared dead at the scene.
