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Dude, that's one bullet-riddled Dell
Lafayette bar owner arrested after four bullets fired into laptop computer
By Aimee Heckel, Camera Staff Writer
March 4, 2003
LAFAYETTE — George Doughty's computer will never crash again. It will never run again, either.
Doughty was jailed Sunday on suspicion of shooting his Dell computer four times with a revolver earlier that day in the middle of the Sportsman's Inn Bar and Restaurant.
He then allegedly hung the destroyed laptop on the wall "like a hunting trophy," said Lt. Rick Bashor with the Lafayette Police Department.
Doughty, 48, of Broomfield owns the Sportsman's Inn, 103 N. Public Road.
Around 10 a.m. Sunday, police said, Doughty entered the bar from his office, announced he was going to shoot his computer and returned to his office. After 30 minutes, police said, Doughty set his laptop on the floor 4 to 6 feet away from him, warned two customers at the bar to cover their ears and fired away. The computer took all the bullets. No one was injured.
"It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," Bashor said, seconds before his own computer at the Lafayette police station froze.
But because Doughty is accused of putting the customers and bartender in danger, he was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons. He was released Monday evening from the Boulder County Jail on a personal recognizance bond. His next court appearance is at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Bashor said the last time he remembers a computer being held at gunpoint was about eight years ago when a man shot his computer with a rifle. The man's wife was moving out and wanted to take the computer, so the man shot it, Bashor said.
"This time was unique," Bashor said. "It was the first time someone shot a computer because he was upset with it."
In police reports, Doughty said that he realized afterward that he shouldn't have shot his Dell but that at the time it seemed appropriate.
He declined to comment Monday.
Dude, that's one bullet-riddled Dell
Lafayette bar owner arrested after four bullets fired into laptop computer
By Aimee Heckel, Camera Staff Writer
March 4, 2003
LAFAYETTE — George Doughty's computer will never crash again. It will never run again, either.
Doughty was jailed Sunday on suspicion of shooting his Dell computer four times with a revolver earlier that day in the middle of the Sportsman's Inn Bar and Restaurant.
He then allegedly hung the destroyed laptop on the wall "like a hunting trophy," said Lt. Rick Bashor with the Lafayette Police Department.
Doughty, 48, of Broomfield owns the Sportsman's Inn, 103 N. Public Road.
Around 10 a.m. Sunday, police said, Doughty entered the bar from his office, announced he was going to shoot his computer and returned to his office. After 30 minutes, police said, Doughty set his laptop on the floor 4 to 6 feet away from him, warned two customers at the bar to cover their ears and fired away. The computer took all the bullets. No one was injured.
"It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," Bashor said, seconds before his own computer at the Lafayette police station froze.
But because Doughty is accused of putting the customers and bartender in danger, he was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons. He was released Monday evening from the Boulder County Jail on a personal recognizance bond. His next court appearance is at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Bashor said the last time he remembers a computer being held at gunpoint was about eight years ago when a man shot his computer with a rifle. The man's wife was moving out and wanted to take the computer, so the man shot it, Bashor said.
"This time was unique," Bashor said. "It was the first time someone shot a computer because he was upset with it."
In police reports, Doughty said that he realized afterward that he shouldn't have shot his Dell but that at the time it seemed appropriate.
He declined to comment Monday.
Silly cowboy (allegedly).
