I've heard of Americans shooting their TV sets, and even their lawn mowers but understandable as “computercidal” urges are I don't recall hearing too many instances of people actually shooting their computers. There is one story which sticks in my mind from a while ago about a chap from Salt Lake City, Utah who had enough one day and shot the servers in the place where he works. Or that should be, the place where he worked. That story is covered on the Salt Lake Tribune
Anyway an American company by the name of ioSafe would like us all to know that you can shoot its hard drives with a shotgun and they will be OK. Maybe gun related hardware failures are more common stateside than we would give credit for. In order to prove this lead-resistant survivability the company invited a bunch of journalists to come get all Joshua Lee Campbell on their hard drives and see for themselves. Its a bizarre yet strangely cool stunt. Read all about it in the Techrepublic report.
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