New Zealand Customs destroy a Gigabyte G1 Assassin 2

[gabbdogg]

It seems that the folks over in New Zealand customs decided to go crazy on a GIGABYTE G1 Assassin 2 looking for the gun that was obviously picked up during the x-ray process. Taking a look below we can see the obvious culprit of the whole process, the gun shaped heatsink that GIGABYTE use.

 

 

Well

We have the trolling law, then this

 

Good job New Zealand, GOOD JOB

 

Source:

http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/news/hardware/motherboards/36044-new-zealand-customs-destroy-gigabyte-g1-assassin-2-looking-for-gun.html

 

*Also on a side note, click the link, and see what they did

[hotpocket800]

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Geez, so it wasn't just the board. They actually ripped apart the whole system. And an SLI setup at that. Hope whoever was having it shipped got money to replace the entire thing. 

[iludez]

Saw this a few days ago on reddit.Sadly we have some muppets here

[BoredErica]

Well, the board name has the word "Assasin" in it, so that's probable cause. 

[aom]

Well I mean, honestly, I blame Gigabyte for having a stupid motherboard design than customs. Probably none of them actually built or know how a pc works. And imo, the pcie tab things are actually quite difficult to unhook (mostly cuz of my meaty fingers). And considering how busy they probably are, they probably didnt have time to properly disassemble it.

 

Still a shitty thing to do, but meh, customs have done worse.

[Guest Generallee]

A gun shaped heatsink

 

WHAT COULD GO WRONG

[thekeemo]

I. Really happy that didnt happen to mine

[Sam Z Man]

This is why you never ship a system with the graphics cards installed.

[dizmo]

Honestly I see why they did it.

On an xray, that'd come up like a gun. When they open the case they're likely not going to be too careful when they're thinking "this person is smuggling in weapons".

[GoldSrc]

 

Damn.

[MegaDave91]

1. Motherboard manufacturers from here on should never design a heatsink to resemble a a firearm.

2. Good on customs for being vigilant (as they should). It's unfortunate they ripped the cards out, though. 

[ClownFace1511]

"Maybe GIGABYTE installing a gun shaped heatsink wasn’t the smartest thing they’ve done."

 

best thing i have ever read.

[mr moose]

Yep,  I understand. Customs officers have much better things to do with their time than work out how to properly uninstall GPUs when they have more important things to do like find out if this PC is just that or something more sinister.  

[xAcid9]

GGbyte fault imo. 

[Daelar]

I get that customs had to do what they had to do, but who is going to pay for the damages?  

[ObeseWalrus]

As long as they pay for damages I'm ok with this.

[Misanthrope]

See they need lessons from Mexican custom officers, those fuckers know exactly what a motherboard is and how fancy ones cost more and are made on China so it's 33% tax or you can live it here.... assholes.

[TheMcSame]

Someone posted this not too long ago, I said it before and I'll say it again, if you have an ounce of common sense you don't take anything that even remotely looks like a gun to the airport. Both parties are to blame.

 

*Goes to find the other post*

 

Found it...

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/406859-new-zealand-customs-suuuuuuuuck/