Man Killed By Exploding PC

Have seen pieces of a computer exploded ie...psu, hard drive, vid card....never enough to toast someone though. I'm going with stevedave on this one though with FAIL
 
Rebel44 said:
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lol o wow, nice!
 
I call laptop bomb. The perfect assassination tool. You put some C4 and a trigger in with some code to hijack someones computer, flip on their web cam to make sure they are at the computer and then boom!
 
SelousSizzle said:
I call laptop bomb. The perfect assassination tool. You put some C4 and a trigger in with some code to hijack someones computer, flip on their web cam to make sure they are at the computer and then boom!
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This is clearly the beginning of a firestorm. Elite hackers across the globe will begin to fall, one by one, from pc's with hidden explosives installed ready to activate via remote detonation.

All of our hopes and dreams now rest with this guy.

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I for one welcome our new hacker overlord.
 
HACKERS TURNED HIS PC INTO A BOMB!

Any idea what company made the device? I would like my face intact.
 
Kil4Thril said:
Sounds fishy. Ram Prasad killed the guy and is trying to cover his tracks.
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Exactly. That was my first thought.

"I was taking a leisurely bath -- I must have been in there for 2 hours -- when I the house shook with an explosion. I got out the tub and dried off as fast as I could--"

"Why did I take time to dry off? Well, so I didn't get the carpet wet, obviously, cause it wasn't, right? Anyway, I then ran out to the living room, and there was my good buddy, Vijayakumar, dead in his chair. I always told him the computer might explode on him one day. <sniff>"

"Oh, no, I didn't touch him to check if he was ok; he was already dea-- I mean, dirty, yeah, dirty. I had just taken a bath after all."
 
Surprised no one mentioned gasoline in the CRT tube, like the classic light bulb with gas used to trigger something like a blown out pilot light on a stove.
 
Ram... *giggles*


But really, this is all very fishy. Murder is a very plausible explanation here, that or spontaneous human combustion.
 
Umm.. Yeah... This story has all of the trappings of urban legend.

If it caused enough damage to kill and instantly char somebody, one would think it would have caused a huge fire and burned the whole place down.
 
I've got it! It was this huge flash of light, so bright and intense that it was as hot as a 1000 Suns. Yes, he was looking at a picture of *NSA CENSOR*.
 
If it wasn't a bad PSU that electrocuted him. It could have been lightning.
 
Chances of the computer actually killing him 0%. Charred body? Come on.
 
Jakalwarrior said:
Maybe he had a monster CRT monitor and the tube exploded? Personally I can't imagine anything in a PC being able to explode with enough force to char and kill though.
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CRT tube have as much air as possible removed from the inside, creative a vacuum.

It's highly unlikely a CRT could do anything other than implode, the negative pressure makes it fairly impossible for it to explode.
 
I see this has been mentioned several times, and my spelling also failed rather hard due to this crappy laptop keyboard.

Double fail on me, oh well...
 
Drill a hole in the top of the tube, fill with combustible liquid of your choice, for irony sake, put sticky on screen that says, "BOOM, head-shoot!"...

...BOOM!
 
My guess: they failed at building a laptop bomb. The survivor is betting on weak-ass forensics to get away with it.
 
This is exactly why you need proper cooling on your cpu (giggles)

Now all computers will have to come with a sticker that says

"Be aware of spontaneous combustion as it may occur from time to time"
 
Didn't the have a Dell, Sony or HP blow up somewhere in Asia on camera during some kind of Parliament? Battery fried right through the notebook.
 
Don't you all remember that video of the asian business man suddenly bursting into flames at a business conference? The lithium battery in his laptop had exploded while on his lap, setting him on fire. This was the famous incident some claims was responsible for Sony making that huge battery recall that affected almost all brands of laptops including Dell.

Yes, poorly made Lithium Ion batteries explode sometimes, cheap knock-offs more often than original parts.
 
maybe he had a quantum computer. And somehow it became nuclear
 
1 of 2 things likely happened. Either he stuck something into the PSU and discharged a capacitor into himself, or the news was inaccurate (like it usually is) and he was actually working on a CRT monitor and discharged it into himself.
 
Or maybe the computer in question was something like a CRT iMac, or an eMac....
 
hahahah i love all these puns, maybe it was a C4 apple computer, not a G4!!! lololololol
 
Raudulfr said:
Wasn't it a laptop? Why are we talking about CRTs? :confused:
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The article didn't mention if it was a desktop or laptop, it just refer to it as a computer.

The weird thing though, they did mention though that "his body was in the sitting position in front of the burnt computer"

So even if it was a laptop, it probably was on a table or something rather than on his lap. I don't see how an exploding battery could set fire on that person so fast that he died in his sitting position:confused:
 
Detonation of explosive capable to causing deep charring would have surely destroyed house so not probable option.


coolie_d said:
1 of 2 things likely happened. Either he stuck something into the PSU and discharged a capacitor into himself, or the news was inaccurate (like it usually is) and he was actually working on a CRT monitor and discharged it into himself.
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Capacitors can store only very limited amount of energy per size.


Unknown-One said:
It's highly unlikely a CRT could do anything other than implode, the negative pressure makes it fairly impossible for it to explode.
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Implosion actually produces also overpressure when all that air rushing to fill vacuum crashes together.
And in case of fragile material plain collapsing part of implosion would probably throw out some excess of stuff. Imagine this happening to glass object:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
But CRT tube has lot of reinforcements for preventing sudden collapse and fragmentation if tube is cracked.
 
i have never read so many successive jokes about someone being murdered before. it is simultaneously sickening and HILARIOUS. carry on
 
This is clearly what the RIAA mean when they say downloading music is linked to terrorism
 
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