Geek Weekly: Our top weird tech stories for 23 April

Technology Decisions’ weekly wrap of IT fails, latest tech, new must-have gadgets, ‘computer says no’ moments and more.

Ever felt like doing this? Exasperated by repeated blue screens of death on his Dell computer, a US man took things a little too far when he decided to put it out of its (and his) misery… by shooting it. The gunshots attracted the attention of neighbours, who called the police, who have charged him with ‘killing’ his computer. The man is facing a probable fine. Perhaps he should have just stuck to the Nine Stages of Technology Grief.

News just in… Traders, bankers and others reliant on Bloomberg’s famous news terminals were left high and dry last week when the system went down for several hours. Bloomberg says it was a combination of hardware and software problems, but unconfirmed reports put the blame on a spilled can of Coke in a server room.

The Good Glitch of the North. Have you heard of Glitch art? No, we hadn’t either, but apparently it’s out there. There’s an iOS app for it called Glitch Wizard. What does it do? It produces images like the one below - don’t stare too long.

On the buses. A computer glitch might have been behind a runaway bus incident in London, a court has been told. Security cameras inside the bus captured the moment it went out of control, accelerating into traffic and smashing into a car.

Robbing the rich… A woman has appeared in court in Dublin on charges of stealing €57,000 from ATMs while the bank was experiencing computer problems. The woman, who has admitted to making 115 fraudulent withdrawals, told the court she used the money to pay for a kidney transplant for her father in Nigeria.

Oops! Someone needs to reboot these things - particularly the foggy billboard that appears to floating in mid-air.