This is happened twice now. What an utterly stupid country.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Anything that happens or is done more than once is tradition.
But was the GPU OK? That's gold right there.
They're gonna have to sure that idiot neighbor for the $10,000 that RAM costs.
Where I live, anyone who owns a firearm is required to keep it in a locked gun safe when not in use, and there are strict rules around transporting a firearm as well.
They cannot be left unattended in a vehicle, and they absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, be left loaded.
The fact that Americans have loaded firearms just kicking around in their house is utterly insane.
Where I live, walls are not made of cardboard and would prbably have stopped (at least) anything up to and including a 5.56 mm round.
Are you suggesting the dog couldn’t have accessed the gun in the safe and shot through the wall? Why would you assume a gun owner is capable of being irresponsible? You must be that fake news I hear so much about.
All my guns are unloaded and in a safe, and my ammo is in a separate safe. Some people are complete idiots though and in a country with such liberal gun policies, this is the result. I am all for sensible gun control, and I hope this dumbass never gets their hands on another one, but knowing this country she still won't fail a background check.
We used to keep the bolts from our guns in a completely seperate second safe. Living in the USA seems harrowing
Well yea, the motherboard clearly says “military grade”
Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.
It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who's PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn't pressing charges. They're getting margaritas later together.
Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor's life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.
Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman's friend at a time when she had every reason not to.
What the headline could have been was 'woman commits suicide after negligent discharge', but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.
I'm trying to work out exactly how this is supposed to have happened. If the bullet was shot through the floor above then there's no path the bullet could have taken that would intersect the PC before it would hit somebody sleeping in a bed, unless the computer is in some way suspended above the bed, which not only doesn't really sound realistic, you can also see from the photo that it clearly is on the floor.
In order to be able to hit a PC on the floor, it would have to be horizontal through a wall.
Also the word neighbour would almost always be used to refer to someone next door.
This sounds super sus. I couldn't find the comment where OP said the neighbor was upstairs, but the damage in the photos, to me, looks like the bullet came from the side. And it doesn't jive with OPs comment in the in the original post.
The police said that the PC changed the trajectory of the bullet, and it would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there.
If the shot came from upstairs, where would the PC case need to be to change the trajectory to keep it from hitting you in bed? Hypothetically it could be possible, but those are some weird ass angles to make that work. Unlikely.
With the photo of the bullet mostly intact (I would expect it to be more deformed than that), that was supposedly found underneath the OPs pillow?? That they were supposedly dead asleep on? I don't think this actually happened. This is a work of fiction.
The amount of people here who seem to think the dog actually shot the gun is insane.
I don't think anyone thinks the dog actually shot the gun. She was clearly weaving it around for some reason and accidentally pulled the trigger.
Even if the gun was loaded, and it had an incredibly light hair trigger (I don't think the actual type of gun is ever mentioned) I can't imagine a dog picking the gun up in its mouth would trigger it.
It's verifiably happened enough other times to be plausible herw.
Shot through the RAM and you're to blame Darling…
... the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
All those dog open-carry advocates got some splainin' to do now.
Alpha energy.
Seriously though, jfc, please stop heaping your insecurities on your four-legged friend. They were wolves once, and this makes them contemplate where their ancestors went wrong teaming up with the rock-chucking apes.
I feel like that's not a valid thing to say. "My dog shot the gun".
I'm sure it won't hold up in court, but it also doesn't hold up anywhere else. Don't keep your guns loaded with the safety off where they are accessible.
You might as well just shoot your family and neighbors yourself if you're doing that shit.
This person obviously relied heavily on the "my dog ate my homework" excuse to get them through school and thought it might work here too.
Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.
Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.
Nooo, not the RAM! You know how expensive that is today? Should have just shot me, would be cheaper.
RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
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OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
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If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where "your dog" can set it off, that's still negligence!
XTREME NEGLIGENCE! Watch this baby pull a pistol out of the couch cushions and SHOOT THE DAD! This isolated, abused teen has access to SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARMS because his parents don't believe in a GUN SAFE! Watch the CARNAGE Carnage carnage!
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"I will never financially recover from this"
Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don't let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls
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Insurance infinite money hack: getting your computer shot during an AI-driven semiconductor drought. Rinse and repeat, just remember to cash out before the bubble pops!
Doesn't insurance generally exclude acts of dog?
Lol insurance is gonna say 'Well you paid x for the computer, we'll offer you x-30%'
That's if they're covered at all.
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