Weapon X Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 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 $75,000 bond for making repeated threats to staff of an unnamed Canadian company between May and July, the U.S. Attorney’s office for Northern California said on Friday. 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, 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.” Booher, of Sunnyvale, California, now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for next month. 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. © 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. The threat: 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ToYs Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 and all those poor people wanted to do is make dudes dick bigger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 a buddy of mine got 3 months for scaring some ppl by shooting at them cause they were driving slow and got all pissed when i honked and tried to fight us. gotta love road rage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
square Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 "Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. " am i the only person who thinks that's really funny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caution Tape Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 wow, what a dumbass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofu Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 This person sounds especially mentally sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Originally posted by square "Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. " am i the only person who thinks that's really funny? nope. i can't believe somebody actually said that. i would've loved to see the interviewers face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Originally posted by ToYs and all those poor people wanted to do is make dudes dick bigger... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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