Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It 181
Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.
Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.
Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!
Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.
Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!
I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:5, Funny)
Michael Scott could see through that.
How to tell when someone is screwing with you... (Score:5, Funny)
... they tell you that they can retrieve the files that you had on the hard-drive that was just stolen from your office.
/facepalm
And it would have worked too. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:5, Funny)
Quantum RAID with drive level parity.
Allows you to recover from the complete disappearance of your drive, and any new drive you choose to buy, will have all your data on it.
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:3, Funny)
Quantum RAID with drive level parity.
Allows you to recover from the complete disappearance of your drive, and any new drive you choose to buy, will have all your data on it.
The catch, you ask? You won't be certain your data is there until you look...
Pennsylvanian Humor (Score:3, Funny)
A Sunday School teacher asks a boy where Jesus was born. The boy answers "Allentown." The teacher corrects him, "No, it was Bethlehem." The boy replies, "Well, I knew it was some place along Rt. 22"
Criminal masterminds... (Score:5, Funny)
He beeped on his way through the door but still was allowed to leave (those things beep so often most employees probably ignore them now). If he didn't give them his personal information, he probably would've gotten away with it.
Error of scale (Score:3, Funny)
He had the right idea, but got the scale wrong.
Had he stolen 1 MILLION hard drives and then demanded $2000 each to put them back, he would be "too big to fail" and then he would just have to give everyone a $1 off coupon on their next HD install.
He could have done worse though. Had he hacked in and disabled the drive remotely, he would be up for a MUCH longer sentence.
Re:Article comments are good too (Score:4, Funny)
I think I know what the problem is.... The mouse, is connected to the monitor.
Re:Article comments are good too (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Phase 4: ??? (Score:1, Funny)
no Phase 5: getting butt-raped in jail by tito
every time I see this type of comment I think: (Score:3, Funny)
Dear AskSlashdot:
I am planning on stealing Hordware/software/company secrets/customers from my company/boss/girlfriend(mother)/government, but I don't want to get caught because that's bad. What's my best course of action and is there anything I should look out for?
Re:A Bethlehem Computer Repairman? (Score:3, Funny)
Why go to Bird-In-Hand when you can go through Intercourse to get to Paradise? Too close to Blue Ball?
Re:Charges filed... (Score:3, Funny)
He was also charged with sexual assualt, of himself, because when they picked him up he was looking at porn.
No, that was consentful by way of a handshake agreement.
Re:Criminal masterminds... (Score:3, Funny)
What? He stole clothes, but put them back, so what did he steal? He set off the alarm but was allowed to leave so how did he get away?
Apparently he stole your reading comprehension.
He never said anything about the guy 'putting them back', you fabricated that one all by yourself.
He set off the alarm but was allowed to leave so how did he get away?
He got away by leaving.
Are all of your local news reports in zen koan form?
I'm pretty sure you have no clue what a 'zen koan' actually is.
Re:every time I see this type of comment I think: (Score:3, Funny)
If you're stealing customers from your girlfriend...can I have her number?
This was my companies business model (Score:2, Funny)
Re:every time I see this type of comment I think: (Score:2, Funny)
If you're stealing customers from your girlfriend...can I have her number?
You want him to steal you too?
Re:every time I see this type of comment I think: (Score:3, Funny)
I was going to make a joke about dead hookers and floorboards here, but then I decided I like not having to explain macabre humor to the FBI.
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:3, Funny)
>The catch, you ask? You won't be certain your data is there until you look...
Also known an Schroedinger disk.
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:1, Funny)
Names like "Damn small Linux", "USB stick" and such, doesn't allow a CS geek to operate *his* "harddrive" at its full potential...
We're punishing ourselves by choosing wrong names for gadgets...
Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went (Score:3, Funny)
Say, that's a nice hard drive you got there.
Be a shame if something happened to it.