Strange suff you find in customers computers.

[Interex]

In my 3 years of shop experiance I have found nuerous things in customers computers. Some include:
1. Key Chains
2. Kids Sun Glasses
3. Coins
4. Roach/Mouse Droppings
5. Roach Nest (LIVE ROACHES!)
6. Funny notes from previous techs that have worked on the PC
7. Credit Cards in floppy drives (Must have been shopping online) =)

Whats some strange stuff you've found in your PC's?

[AlienDyne]

1. Screws all over the box
2. A motherboard manual
3. Dog and Human hair.
4. A coin
5. Various creatures (Check my website. I've placed some photos of a nice spider's web).
6. Stickers with notes and service information from previous Techs.
7. A bag with extra screws.

and the best of all times...

8. A colleague of mine, told me that he had found some used condoms(??!) inside a teenager's machine. He told him he couldn't hide them anywhere else!!!!


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[Interex]

LMAO! Used condoms! AHAHAH

[jimmr13]

1. Roach = the smokeable kind.
2. Credit Card
3. Student I.D. Card
4. Dead little mouse (Weard smell coming from my computer)
5. Tech Notes
6. IOU for $200.00
On the hard drive, PORN,PORN,& PORN
1. About 1.5 gigs of gay porn
2. About 1 gig of cartoon porn
3. About 1 gig of girls an animals
4. About 1/2 gig of Horny Grannies
In the printer,
1. Peanut Butter Sandwich cut in lil Triangles. (From a tea party for some 3 year olds, No cupcakes till you finish the sandwiches the Mom told me)
OOps forgot jelly beans a whole lot of jelly beans.


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If all else fails read the directions !

[This message has been edited by jimmr13 (edited January 01, 2001).]

[Green Iguana]

1. Coins
2. Insects & mice
3. Notes, pictures, razor blades, screws
4. Win95 CD & misc. software
5. Bundle of wire ties
6. Ruler
7. Old video card

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It's a dog eat dog world out there, and there isn't enough dog to go around. So get as much dog as you can, before all the dogs gone.

[Darren Hensley]

In my 9 years of playing system GOD I've found the usual stuff posted here. The oddest thing was a butcher knife through the side of a tower case. The funiest thing was packing peanuts. Lots of packing peanuts.

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I have the cure for ESTO, PEBCAK, and ID10T diseases. A 14lb sledge hammer.

[theblueghost]

lol

I used to work with him, guys...he speaks the total truth!!! LOL!

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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station...

[unknownGHOST]

1. playboy cutouts
2. condoms (new and still boxed)
3. a gun (i guess he was prepared for a system crash?)
4. $800 (8 $100 bills)
5. dried coke
6. an AMD!
and the oddest of all...
7. a 500MHz system w/ a master drive of 10gig and a slave of 200mb...

that drive should be in a museum next to ENIAC!

[window_washer]

The strangest thing we've ever seen in a machine is Alpha-Bits. Don't ask me how they got in there.

[theBeast]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by window_washer:
The strangest thing we've ever seen in a machine is Alpha-Bits. Don't ask me how they got in there.</font>

Maybe the kids were trying to simulate the commercial, and hope that the computer would spit out words using the Alphabits.
I found a corn puff in a printer once. I told the customer, "Sorry, this printer is parallel, not serial." The other techs howled, but the customer starred blankly at me.

Most disgusting thing? About a dozen cockroaches...dead.

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***the Beast
- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...

[LabRat]

A very shocked mouse with extra crispy hands firmly cleanched on the leads of a diode and transistor. We was right next to the ATX connection base.

The customer had complained the system was randomly re-booting.......

[MacGyver]

A friend of mine complained his CD-ROM drive wasn't working. I ran the thing through every test I could think of, then pronounced it clinically dead. For fun, we popped the cover off and found little bits of a bookmark tassel and a healthy dose of icing. Kids....

[AFJuvat]

Broken CD in the CDROM.

They somehow thought you could stack the disks up and read all of them at the same time....


AFJuvat

[Larommi]

Lite Brite pegs...toms of them

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You spend your whole life believing that you're on the right track,
only to discover that you're on the wrong train.

[SiCkNuT]

I just love it when you open a machine to find that the previous tech doesn't own a screwdriver. Not a screw in sight and the hard disks are dangling from the ide cable. I once opened a PC that a customer had tried to build himself to find that he'd plugged the cable from the power supply that's supposed to go into the CPU fan into the audio output on the back of his new CD Rewriter. Ha! Killed the Rewriter go0d and proper!

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