Owner takes out frustration with a sledgehammer

The article appears in the Wisconsin Post-Crescent newspaper. Read the story here.

It seems that Gary Wilke bought his daughter a $2600 Gateway system which has never once worked properly in its entire existence; apparently Gary was never informed that, at Gateway, the quality goes out before the cow spots go on. In a futile attempt to get his daughter's gift to acknowledge its sound card, burn CDs, or even just boot up once in a while, he's taken it back to the store for service "five times" and even sat through a "four-hour home visit from a computer technician," all to no avail.

When the system still failed to boot after its fifth trip home from the store last Friday, Gary brought it back in one last time-- accompanied by "what witnesses described as a 'large sledgehammer.'" Reportedly Gary calmly deposited the computer in the foyer of the Gateway Country from whence it came, told the staff that he'd "take care of it," grabbed the hammer from his car, and sent that Wintel to the Big Splintery Scrap-Heap in the Sky. He then said "have a good day" and drove back home-- where he was later arrested for disorderly conduct and then hauled off to jail.



Edited By Quarex on April 07 2002 at 01:50