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Man rushes into burning house to save PC
A MAN WHO RUSHED into his burning house in a daring bid to save his PC has been arrested for disorderly conduct.
The fire, in Winona in the US, happened at a two-story house but no one noticed and it was well under way by the time the fire crew arrived.
Nicholas Christopher Guy, 53, showed up and was a Nintendo bit sauced up and was 'tired and emotional' about the fire. Coppers tried to calm him down and tell him to stand back and let the fire-fighters do their jobs.
For a while Guy agreed, but when no one was watching, battled the flames and smoke to sneak inside to save his PC. He wasn’t injured, but needed a bit of help getting out again.
Coppers were furious because he jeopardised the safety of numerous emergency personnel.
The house was gutted in the fire so chances are the computer would not have made it out unassisted either. µ
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Was he shouting "pictures of (naked) women and children first!!!" ?
My p0rn! My p0rn!
Somebody save my p0rn!!!
...
Ok. I'll do it myself then!
Can you get arrested for trying to save something from a building that's on fire.
I can't really say anything bad about this guy. I mean I would do the same for my PC or Guitar for sentimental reasons. He shouldn't receive any jail time, even though the fact he risked the firefighters lives. He should have to pay a fine. (But hmmm... Having to pay a fine after losing all your stuff.)
Was the PC still working when he got it out?!
Can't blame a man for trying to save his pRon
Maybe, in this digital age, that PC contained the only copies of important documents, records or family photographs that he didn't want to lose? It really doesn't seem so surprising if he'd ran back in to fetch a paper photo album or a box file of letters and bank statements.

Yes he may have had a backup - on an external hard drive next to the nicely warming PC.
Next we'll see a counter story: Man rushes into burning house to burn his Windows Vista PC.
Just an honest man trying to save something valuable and irreplaceable. Obviously, disobeying the orders of emergency personnel is illegal but I think he will get a very minimal punishment.

morally, he is in the right because we cannot say whether or not the data he was saving was important or not. I would have done the same to my work and home computer.
While the machine itself could be easily replaced, the same isn't necessarily true of the data held on it. Perhaps just his pr0n but the idea of there being important work-related files on there as well isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
This is why keeping all really important, non-replacable files on external hard drives kept in fire proof lock boxes are a good idea. Seriously just such a lock box will only cost you about as much as an external drive does.
If he'd had an Apple with a .Mac account and used the backup software it provides, he could have had all his porn safely saved in Cupertino.

I reckon I would do the same except it would be grabbing the NAS.

There are old scanned letters from both wars and all the family photos on there.

Might be worth keeping a portable HD at someone elses house I guess...