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I did it.
Arrest this woman for false reporting. Stupidity.
that dammed microsoft!!
Probably Best Buy. Bet they formatted her hard drive, too.
No leads? no wonder it doesn’t work
I need new locks on my doors to prevent this from happening to me again.
I’m only surprised there is no 911 call to go along with this.
#6, PWUK: Good one!
Happens to me too. Must be organized crime.
Hey– same thing happened to my car about 6 months ago….
I’d talk to Stephen Wright.
He talked of something like this decades ago.
#5-Bet they formatted her hard drive, too.
They did that to mine last month. Those SOBs over-wrote all the data on my hard drive with identical data! Someone has to stop them!
Hasn’t this happened to almost everyone?
The worst part is that now she has an unregistered and unupdateable copy of Windows. WGA FAIL!
Maybe 20 years ago, when hardware was really expensive, a friend of mine would do this. He had a floppy fail, so he pulled it and surreptitiously swapped it with one on a computer at work, then reported it to the tech guys. Did the same with a failed 10Base2 network card and some memory sticks.
Sound like that crazy woman that keeps calling Leo Laporte’s tech guy show…
They always blame the hardware. Never the software, or the OS. Bet that thief really broke in and switched her OS with an identical Microsoft OS that didn’t work.
Poltergeists!
Somebody snuck into our country and swapped out decent, brave, tolerant Americans with these unhinged, terrified, racist Tea Partiers.