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Imagine spending 11 years on this boondoggle.. Also, this is totally unhinged:

> Howells claims it "was taken from his home without his permission or consent on the morning of 5th August 2013"

That's certainly a hell of a way of describing "my wife put it in the trash, and the garbage truck took it to the dump".

Or his original: I asked her to take it to the dump, she said 'too busy, do it yourself', meanwhile I remembered I wanted to double check which drive I'd thrown out but she'd had a change of heart and taken it already.

It doesn't matter which version. He threw the damn thing in the trash can! He made a careless mistake and tossed the wrong drive. Normally people think about it, learn a thing or two, get over it, and move on. Instead this jackass seems to see himself victimized by [checks notes] literally everyone? And he wasted untold human years of other people's time, and eleven of his own, all because he couldn't shrug off a silly mistake and learn to laugh about it. Pointless.

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