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In 2003 Silicon Valley programmer Charles Booher was arrested for repeatedly threatening to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to a spam company, "disable" employees with a bullet, torture them with a power drill and ice pick or hunt them down and castrate them. The spammer had attracted his ire by barraging his machine with offers to enhance a particular part of his anatomy.

Booher explained

Here's what happened: I go to their website and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me. It just sort of escalated ... and I sort of lost my cool at that point.

Californian authorities were not particularly sympathetic: Booher was released on US$75,000 bail after indictment for making threats by email and phone.

The story ended unhappily, with Booher committing suicide in 2005 by inhaling helium.

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