Eating a Flash Drive

March 8th, 2010 admin

How not to destroy evidence: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents, records show. The article wasn’t explicit about this — odd, as it’s the main question any reader would…


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