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In
2003 Silicon Valley programmer Charles Booher was arrested
for repeatedly threatening to send a "package full
of Anthrax spores" to a spam
company, "disable" employees with a bullet,
torture them with a power drill and ice pick or hunt them
down and castrate them. The spammer had attracted his
ire by barraging his machine with offers to enhance a
particular part of his anatomy.
Booher explained
Here's
what happened: I go to their website and start complaining
to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering
me. It just sort of escalated ... and I sort of lost
my cool at that point.
Californian
authorities were not particularly sympathetic: Booher
was released on US$75,000 bail after indictment for making
threats by email and phone.
The story ended unhappily, with Booher committing suicide
in 2005 by inhaling helium.
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