Don't make Captain Slow angry....Telegraph article Nov 13, 2009

[skylock]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...-Top-Gear.html

James May, one third of the crack presenting trio on Top Gear, the latest series of which returns tonight on BBC Two, is talking about the time he shot his printer

In your office? ‘Oh yes,’ he says. May also shot his mobile phone for a similar crime – though he took it to the garden for the execution.

Yet that would miss the point. May got angry at how badly engineered the devices were. It was a high-tempered crime of purest geekdom.

[HeidiL]

I've wanted to destroy a fair bit of hardware in my time... but mostly I just want to shoot the users.

[skidd]

Reminds me of my favorite scene from one of my favorite movies:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...&hl=en&view=2#

[racingfan1]

+rep for Mr. May.

[Squidge]

"All this added up to the day I slipped the cartridge into my trusty small-bore .410 shotgun and shot the b------.’

In your office? ‘Oh yes,’ he says."

I'm not terribly familiar with guns, but it seems to me that apart from the printer, wouldn't there also be some kind of collateral damage? Like the desk perhaps? (Or at the very least, Woman's nerves.)

Our big-assed Xerox digital printer gives me more grief than the desktop printer I use. It's ancient by today's standards, but my trusty HP has churned out (possibly) hundreds of thousands of sheets without so much as a glitch. It's a bloody workhorse and I love it.

[ladyblue]

I would imagine there are a few bullet holes in the walls of his office.

Admittedly, there are a few printers and stuff I would like to destroy for making my life miserable. The only printer I've not had problems with, touch wood, is my Epson.

[stiggles]

I punched my laptop screen out once. Would've shot it if I had a gun.
May's doing his bit for recycling! Good on him...

[iam-nobody]

One of my buttons on my lap top is damaged after i hit it too hard after it would not do what it was supposed too.

[gaasc]

Hammond’s near-death crash in 2006. because of parkinsons

Nice read that article

[flydiscovery]

I thought you were supposed to drop misbehaving electronics from tall parking structures?

[shellygrrl]

And I thought you were supposed to just hit them with a hammer?

[matt2000]

Anyone else notice that they said TG was starting on Friday? Don't know how they got that wrong.

James May, one third of the crack presenting trio on Top Gear, the latest series of which returns tonight on BBC Two, is talking about the time he shot his printer

[Nati]

^Maybe the article was meant to be published on Sunday

[That American Girl]

I'm not terribly familiar with guns, but it seems to me that apart from the printer, wouldn't there also be some kind of collateral damage? Like the desk perhaps? (Or at the very least, Woman's nerves.)

Here's hoping he doesn't always look down the barrel like in the Polar Special.

[Dr_Grip]

He's in good company shooting hardware:


RIP, Hunter. I miss you.