Squirrel Urine Kills Computer

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July 1st, 2002, 10:33 PM
Percy

Squirrel Urine Kills Computer

True story, names changed to protect the innocent:

Lady comes into the large retail store that I work at with a laptop, tears pooling in the corners of her eyes. She sets it down and proceeds to regale me with the story.

She works at a private school and, as it's been unseasonably hot here in the Springs and the building she was in didn't have air conditioning, she opened a window while doing some work on her laptop.

So, she gets up to go to the bathroom, leaving the donuts that she'd bought earlier sitting next to her system. She comes back five minutes later to see one of natures furry friends sitting on her laptop keyboard, powdered donut in its fuzzy little paws. She shrieks and makes shooing motions at the intrepid invader. This literally scares the p*ss out of it. Right onto (and into) her keyboard.

She shut the system down and cleaned it up as well as she could, but upon trying to reboot, it wouldn't POST. Not even a POST beep. Nada.

I sat listening to her story, at first not believing it, but she was completely serious. I've still got it on my bench (she came in just as we were closing). I'm thinking that since this happened almost a week ago that any liquids inside will have dried up by now and hopefully I can get it going for her. I've been a tech for about 8 years now, this is the first time that animal pee has ever come into the situation. :p
July 1st, 2002, 11:01 PM
Todo

That story is hilarious! I mean I feel for the lady and her laptop, but that story definately made my day! You must have been trying so hard not to laugh at her while she was telling you the story.
July 2nd, 2002, 02:18 AM
EvilCabbage

I've seen animal .. uh.. waste, kill a few systems.

Quite a few actually.

It is a most, most, most horrid smell, and if I ever have to do it again, I would sooner throw the entire system out, than replace the broken parts.
July 2nd, 2002, 03:34 AM
NooNoo

Cats love to fall asleep on video recorders... and pee in them. Spent many a day washing boards from vcr's and letting them dry for a week!

They usually survive, but if you don't wash them as soon as the board heats up the smell ewwww, and it just don't go away untill you do wash the board.
July 2nd, 2002, 04:12 AM
freddy

and don,t drop yer cell phone down the Loo ,,,

FtF
July 2nd, 2002, 05:46 AM
EvilCabbage

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by freddy:
and don,t drop yer cell phone down the Loo ,,,

FtF<hr /></blockquote>Uh.. why would you be in a position to drop it in the loo in the first place? ... I always (and I mean always have my mobile phone with me, but I can not imagine having the chance to drop it down the lav...
July 2nd, 2002, 06:46 AM
NooNoo

Same way as my father dropped his $500 glasses from 35,000 feet in an aeroplane.... you put it in your shirt pocket and then lean over to push the flush button, the second the flush happens the phone or glasses slither out of your shirt pocket and freefall down the pan, in my father's case his glasses freefell down the loo and out through the ejection system somewhere over the atlantic.
July 2nd, 2002, 06:05 PM
FatalException0E

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by NooNoo:
Same way as my father dropped his $500 glasses from 35,000 feet in an aeroplane.... you put it in your shirt pocket and then lean over to push the flush button, the second the flush happens the phone or glasses slither out of your shirt pocket and freefall down the pan, in my father's case his glasses freefell down the loo and out through the ejection system somewhere over the atlantic.<hr /></blockquote><img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> There's a fish somewhere with a really stylin' (but slightly smelly) set of shades :D
July 2nd, 2002, 10:30 PM
-Senectus-

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Uh.. why would you be in a position to drop it in the loo in the first place? ... I always (and I mean always have my mobile phone with me, but I can not imagine having the chance to drop it down the lav... <hr /></blockquote>I've nearly done this heaps of times..
Leave it in your pocket and the slim little phone is going to fall out.. I have a bluetooth unit that (headset) is prone to nearly doing that a lot as well, I'm paranoid about it now :-P

My site has a NEC PABX that has a mouse piss on the CPU on the controler boad once... cost us a fortune to replace..
July 3rd, 2002, 01:23 AM
EvilCabbage

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by -Senectus-:
I've nearly done this heaps of times..
Leave it in your pocket and the slim little phone is going to fall out.. I have a bluetooth unit that (headset) is prone to nearly doing that a lot as well, I'm paranoid about it now :-P

<hr /></blockquote>Yeah, but you are unco-ordinated..
<blockquote>quote:<hr />

My site has a NEC PABX that has a mouse piss on the CPU on the controler boad once... cost us a fortune to replace..<hr /></blockquote>Im hoping a mouse will get the nerve to urinate on the voicemail system, personally... that something I would really like to see up in smoke.

-Cameron
July 3rd, 2002, 08:25 AM
-Senectus-

Troll? have you changed your nick?
heh.. kinda suits you actually..
July 3rd, 2002, 11:47 AM
Radical Dreamer

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Troll:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by freddy:
and don,t drop yer cell phone down the Loo ,,,

FtF<hr /></blockquote>Uh.. why would you be in a position to drop it in the loo in the first place? ... I always (and I mean always have my mobile phone with me, but I can not imagine having the chance to drop it down the lav...<hr /></blockquote>You would be surprised at the number of people kill cell phones this way, when I worked for a rather large cell phone company here in the states, it was one of the main resons phones broke <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
July 3rd, 2002, 02:41 PM
freddy

and i,m guilty of having a (european) nokia 3310 that works perfect apart from no ring tone or vibrate.

FtF