[0157] (33 lines) Lippard.Multics 09/29/87  1556.0 mst Tue misc
Subject:  Bullets for Bytes
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 87 15:00:19 PDT
From: bostic%okeeffe@berkeley.edu (Keith Bostic)
Message-Id: <8709292200.AA16336@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU

Bullets for Bytes

PASSAIC TWP. -- A Gillette man was arrested at his home last Thursday
night after he fired eight bullets at his home computer, according to
police.

The man, Michael A. Case, 35, of 64 Summit Ave., was arrested shortly
after 11 p.m., at his house, when police said they received a report
that shots were fired.  They arrived at the home to find a .44 Magnum
automatic handgun and a shot-up IBM personal computer with a Princeton
Graphics System monitor.

The monitor screen was blown out by the blasts and its inner workings
were visible, Lt. Donald Van Tassel said on Monday.  The computer,
which had bullet holes in its hardware, was hit four times while four
more bullet holes were found in various areas next to the computer,
Van Tassel said.

"The only thing he (Case) said was that he was mad at his computer so
he shot it," Van Tassel said.

The handgun, which the lieutenant identified as an Israeli Arms Desert
Eagle .44, has "a lot of firepower," he said.  "It's a big gun."  Case
used hollow-point, or dum-dum, bullets, he added.

Case was surprised when police arrested him because he didn't think he
was breaking the law, Van Tassel said. "He couldn't understand why he
couldn't shoot his own computer in his own home," Van Tassel said.
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