Short Fuse

Jersey City, New Jersey: March 10, 2003

Ronatarian Party founder Ron hung his latest hunting trophy on the wall of his party's headquarters and store. (The HQ doubles as a souvenir/sandwich shop when funds are low.) Then he went to jail.

The problem was the trophy was Ron's laptop computer.

He shot it four times, as customers watched, after it crashed once too often.
He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment, and the prohibited use of weapons.

He was later released with dropped charges by the sympathetic Jersey City Police. Reports from the precinct indicate that many of the cops pity Ron and hate computers.

"It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," said police Lt. Rick Bashor, seconds before his own police computer froze at police headquarters. "With Ron, we knew about his short fuse. We figured something like this might happen sometime. He put no one in direct harm with his actions."

Ron was released Thursday evening after playing a round of canasta with the local police on duty at the station.

In unofficial police reports, Ron said that he realized afterward that he shouldn't have shot his computer but at the time it seemed like the right thing to do.

Posted by Webmaster at March 10, 2003 10:43 PM

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