Angry Janesville Man Barbecues Slow Modem
Thu Nov 7, 9:22 PM ET

Janesville police responded to a smoke complaint around 1 a.m. Tuesday and found a man barbecuing his computer modem.

The 39-year-old man told police the modem was operating too slowly, and he decided grilling it might make it dial up faster.

The man's wife told police that this wasn't the first time her husband got upset with a slow modem and that he has smashed them or tossed them out the door before.

Police doused the coals with water and told the man's wife to make sure he went to bed.

No one was injured, but police said the modem was a total loss.

I feel his pain. THere has been many a time when I have wanted to destroy whatever part on my machine that decided not to work.

Sounds like some needs to get some anger managment help.

But when I am at work we are on dial up and at home I am on cable. And at work I do get frustrated. Thank god there is no BBQ here. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

I allways have used a modem and I have never moticed it being too slow (compared to other modems) But then again I have never used anything BUT modem, except the school ones but those are so phenominally slow I hardly ever ues them.

If that was me, I'd be toasting the monitor, keyboard.. the whole lot. I can't wait for a newer computer.. [img]graemlins/2gunfire.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/skull6.gif[/img]

Slow modems, crashing computers and windows 9x are a crime against humanity [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D

Meh...broadband :D [img]tongue.gif[/img]
ADSL actually ^ ^