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Kyle Bennett gets hard labour for pic spoof

Gets put in cooler for overclocking

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Pictured here below is Kyle Bennett of overclocking site HardOCP, who at the beginning of last week published a picture on his site of Register old-timer Mike Magee. Now, it appears, the authorities have caught up with him and he is going to have to spend a mandatory sentence of 10 years in the overclocking cooler. Kyle Bennett We understand the Texan authorities might give him time off for good behaviour, but view that as an unlikely event. His wife (see ring finger in pic), is said to be gutted. ®

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