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But was the GPU OK? That's gold right there.

They're gonna have to sure that idiot neighbor for the $10,000 that RAM costs.

They shot his ram... In this economy? Fuck man

Well yea, the motherboard clearly says “military grade”

Where I live, anyone who owns a firearm is required to keep it in a locked gun safe when not in use, and there are strict rules around transporting a firearm as well.

They cannot be left unattended in a vehicle, and they absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, be left loaded.

The fact that Americans have loaded firearms just kicking around in their house is utterly insane.

Shot through the RAM and you're to blame Darling…

Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.

It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who's PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn't pressing charges. They're getting margaritas later together.

Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor's life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.

Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman's friend at a time when she had every reason not to.

What the headline could have been was 'woman commits suicide after negligent discharge', but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.

The amount of people here who seem to think the dog actually shot the gun is insane.

All those dog open-carry advocates got some splainin' to do now.

... the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.

Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?

Nooo, not the RAM! You know how expensive that is today? Should have just shot me, would be cheaper.

I feel like that's not a valid thing to say. "My dog shot the gun".

I'm sure it won't hold up in court, but it also doesn't hold up anywhere else. Don't keep your guns loaded with the safety off where they are accessible.

You might as well just shoot your family and neighbors yourself if you're doing that shit.

If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where "your dog" can set it off, that's still negligence!

OMG!

I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.

PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!

RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:

For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.

o7

May Theseus grant you new life.

"I will never financially recover from this"

Insurance infinite money hack: getting your computer shot during an AI-driven semiconductor drought. Rinse and repeat, just remember to cash out before the bubble pops!

Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don't let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls