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Man Gets "spam Rage" Over Penis Ad
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Nov 24, 2003 @ 3:30pm |
 Coolness: 685845 | Man gets "spam rage" over penis ad
By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Call it spam rage: A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his penis. In one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the state that made "road rage" famous, Charles Booher, 44, was arrested on Thursday and released on bail for making repeated threats to staff of a Canadian company between May and July. Booher threatened to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to the company, to "disable" an employee with a bullet and torture him with a power drill and ice pick; and to hunt down and castrate the employees unless they removed him from their e-mail list, prosecutors said. He used return e-mail addresses including Satan@hell.org. In a telephone interview with Reuters on Friday, Booher acknowledged that he had behaved badly but said his computer had been rendered almost unusable for about two months by a barrage of pop-up advertising and e-mail. "Here's what happened: I go to their Web site and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me," he said. "It just sort of escalated ... and I sort of lost my cool at that point." The Sunnyvale, California man now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for next month on charges of threatening to injure someone. He said he did not own any guns or have access to anthrax. Booher said the problem stemmed from a program he mistakenly downloaded from the Internet that brought a continuous stream of advertising to his computer. The object of the Californian's anger was Douglas Mackay, president of DM Contact Management, which works for Albion Medical, a firm advertising the "Only Reliable, Medically Approved Penis Enhancement." "This went for a long, long time. He seemed really dedicated to this," Mackay said from Victoria, British Columbia in Canada. "He seemed like a guy just crazy enough with nothing to lose that might actually do something." He said his firm does not send spam but blamed a rival firm which he said routes much of their unsolicited bulk e-mail through Russia and eastern Europe. Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. In other cases, Internet vigilantes have bombarded spammers with both unsolicited e-mail and regular mail and phone calls, launched attacks on spammers' computers and posted spammers' personal information on the Internet, according to reports. Separately, lawmakers in Washington said the U.S. House of Representatives was poised to vote for on a measure to outlaw most Internet spam. Lawmakers hope to pass a national anti-spam bill before a much tougher California state law goes into effect on January 1. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Mon Nov 24, 2003 @ 4:59pm |
 Coolness: 472060 | Its been so annoying ...those freakin penis enlargement adds ...
As if i need that anyways ..:) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» errorizE replied on Mon Nov 24, 2003 @ 5:28pm |
 Coolness: 61095 | HAHAHAHA
ohh man i remember sending threatning e-mails to spam companies. I feel bad for that guy. I know how annoying it can be to get a million fucking pops and spam mail. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Mon Nov 24, 2003 @ 6:16pm |
| Coolness: 141620 | i hope the threatener gets let off, and the president gets exactly what the guy threatened him with |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Mon Nov 24, 2003 @ 11:23pm |
| Coolness: 66770 | I hope this guy goes to jail for being an idiot.
He could've fixed his spam problems in 30 minutes or less with AdAware, Ad Muncher and a new email address. Yet another case of PEBKAC |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» errorizE replied on Tue Nov 25, 2003 @ 2:44am |
| Coolness: 61095 | not everybody is computer literate. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Tue Nov 25, 2003 @ 10:58pm |
 Coolness: 201480 | hey, at least he didn't get spammed by someone's sad life story they wrote while on methamphetamine. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Nov 25, 2003 @ 11:01pm |
| Coolness: 685845 | Yeah, or by some happy hardcore DJ promoting his radio show with an MC who's got the intelectual capacity of a box of rocks, with all the smart rocks taken out of the box.
That's enough to make someone want to kill. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 9:11am |
| Coolness: 149070 | Originally posted by SPOOKY...
an MC who's got the intelectual capacity of a box of rocks, with all the smart rocks taken out of the box. the funnirst words i have ever read.... EVER |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 11:55am |
 Coolness: 276690 | Hey spooky tones might be pretty annoying but what makes you think hes dumb.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 2:17pm |
 Coolness: 91945 | Originally posted by SPOOKY...
Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. HAHAHA..cuz we all know how respectable the "penis enhancement business" is. The only explanation I have for this, is that guy must be really, ReAlLy insecure about his penis size. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 3:35pm |
| Coolness: 685845 | Originally posted by MC BETTI FORDE...
Hey spooky tones might be pretty annoying but what makes you think hes dumb.. I dunno, it's just a hunch that someone with so little inteligent things to say and that has so little skills on a mic might, just might, not have the brightest bulb in the chandeliere. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 7:34pm |
| Coolness: 201480 | I wish I could opt out of getting penis enlargement spam because I really don't need it. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Nov 26, 2003 @ 8:33pm |
| Coolness: 685845 | Yeah, seriously.
"Get a 9 inch penis NOW!" like, wtf do I want to cut an inch and a half off of my dick for? |
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