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In 2009, Edward Sobolewski was passed over for a raise in his job at market research firm Frost and Sullivan. So he spent the next three years of his life destroying the company’s servers using cleaning supplies. That’s what you call a long con. A very long, very sad con.
He got away with his escapades until June of 2012, when the company installed security cameras. They caught Sobolewski spraying Cillit Bang—a counter-cleaner whose catch phrase is “bang and the dirt is gone”—into company IT equipment and pouring it on computers. Sobolewski caused around half a million dollars of damage, and now a judge has ordered him to pay a £12,000 fine and to spend the next eight months in prison thinking about what he’s done.
Sobolewski claims he was depressed, which is very obviously true of a person who spent three whole years of life slowly and methodically spraying computer grills with the same thing you use to get the lime out of your shower. Next time the easier route would just be to quit. [The Telegraph via BetaBeat]
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What in the name of everything that is holy was the catchphrase part about?
Nostalgia trip
http://www.luckykazoo.com/media/2005/03/cillit-bang-remix.html
Nostalgia’ing hard!
Did you bother reading the Telegraph article?!
“causing system failures and £32,000 worth of damage.” & “a judge ordered him to also pay £10,000 costs for his “malicious” attacks.”
Half a million dollars of damage is a bit of an exaggeration!!
To be fair she didn’t specify which dollars, it could be like Zimbabwean dollars (I guess that would make it like a trillion dollars or something…)
hmm… 32,000.00 GBP = 18,241,447.79 ZWD
so, too much. USD too low. oh, god which dollars did she use!!!!!
hong kong dollars?
32000 Pound Sterling = 391202.270577 Hong Kong Dollar
were getting closer!!!!
I think that’s the closest dollar. Also, how have I only just discovered the Vietnamese currency is called the Dong?
32000 British Pound Sterling equals
448467.20 Namibian Dollar
My bad
I like this bloke, this is the sort of thing I swear I’d do to people who’ve wronged me but lack the dedication.
This man is committed. And now he has been.
Same here.
I should start burning down all those buildings I said I would. But oh wait there’s a Steam sale…
Now where’s your Tyler Durden level of commitment to chaos and anarchy. Damn those decent offers though… they are rather good on Steam!
Hey there’s no steam sale, don’t get my hopes up like that!
I got a email a few days ago saying that Super Meat Boy is on sale. Is it over already.
Its some going…. Whats more surprising is that it took the dumb fuck server manager 3 years to pin point the cause of their continual server hardware failures.
more bs from leslie!
you and your need for accuracy
This guy should clean up his act
Nah, he’s all washed up!
they should hang him out to dry
“Next time the easier route would just be to quit.”
Just want to point out that he didn’t want to quit – he wanted REVENGE so this line is a bit pointless. I would also recommend you read the articles you link to before picking numbers out of thin air.