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I've found many awful things.... an electrocuted mummified mouse in the power supply of an Epson dot matrix printer. Cables attached to drives and boards w/ caulk, or hot glue. Spiders, roaches various bugs. 3 pounds of concrete mix in a 4Simx. Most recently, the day before yesterday actually, a golfball.
https://forums.windrivers.com/ i have post this before a year or two ago---working on a new computer that was giving to a grandmother..there were snapshots of her grand kids stuffed into the floppy drive ..somebody told her she could mail pictures on the internet to her friends......get this....after i explained it to her...she asked if she were to put stamps on them would it work?
https://forums.windrivers.com/ i have post this before a year or two ago---working on a new computer that was giving to a grandmother..there were snapshots of her grand kids stuffed into the floppy drive ..somebody told her she could mail pictures on the internet to her friends......get this....after i explained it to her...she asked if she were to put stamps on them would it work?
Hi
As you can see, i´m from Brasil, were theres the biggest rain forest in the world.
Tha fact is that were i live is more or less 4000 km from the jungle.
Well, 4 days ago came to my shop a guy with a chashed tower he said it wasnt working since he came from Manaus (a city that is just in the middle of nowhere, i mean in the middle of the amazon jungle)
When i placed the machine over the bench, i heard a little sccratching noise on it, so i decided to open it to see what was going on...
When open, a little spider, wich measured at least one foot from streched leg to streched leg jump out and tried do bit me!! it seemed to be really Hungry!!! It was so huge that some guys considered sohting it down, instead of hitting it...
Do you remenber those beasts from the aracnophobia movie? its one of then, but they acctually dont have poison.
X C A R Y!!!!
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Bestiae sumus ut num Bestia simus
Gateway computer with Promise ATA 66 controller with am IDE cable hooked up to nothing. Customer had no clue how it got there and what it was, I left it there.
Holy Snikies! thats a little spider? what the hell do the big spiders look like???? man, i am never going to brazil, you could not pay me enough to be within a mile of that thing, I don't care if it was already dead.Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by alravanello:
a little spider, wich measured at least one foot from streched leg to streched leg jump out and tried do bit me!!</font>
geez, a foot long spider, and it was little, i would crap myself on the spot and it attacked, too!! i would rather be confronted by a bear than that spider.
a foot long, and it was little, am i not the only one frakin out thinking about this?????
I found a whole necklace inside a printer one time. Everytime a jammed printer comes in, the first thing I do is turn it upside down and give it a good shake! Had a big chunk of a brownie fall out one time!
But anyway, I could see a bit of the necklace without even tearinng apart the printer. I showed it to her, but she insisted that was part of the printer. She left, and I took the necklace out, and taped it to the printer! (kind of an I TOLD YOU SO BEEEEAAATCHH)
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Say what?
LOLQuote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by theBeast:
I don't know what ESTO is, but PEBCAK is (P)roblem (E)xists (B)etween (C)hair (A)nd (K)eyboard.
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Thirdfey ya want something to really get to you. Fixing a friends computer. Well this guy happens to be a tarantula nut. Apparently a male and female had escaped 2-3 months previously. I pick up the case and dozens of little baby spiders come swarming out of the power supply. 1 big spider I can handle, dozens of small ones get to me.
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Life isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over.
Oddest things I've found in a PC:
1: A dead mouse
2: A picture of a German Shepard with an erection the size of the Eiffel Tower (Ick) stuffed under a woman's Mobo.
3: About 5 live cockroaches (we killed them with a 4lb lump hammer)
4: Waterproof crayons
5: Blood
And the real kicker:
6: The tip of a finger, upto the first knuckle. I held it up with a pair of pliers and asked the customer if it was his. He had to check to be sure.
~Cad
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Research has shown that a barrel of monkeys is not fun at all. In fact, it is rather horrifying. https://forums.windrivers.com/
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by alravanello:
Hi
When open, a little spider, wich measured at least one foot from streched leg to streched leg jump out and tried do bit me!!
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A Spider!!!!!! WHERE?!?!?! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!! *Getting on Table!!*
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How about the dumbest thing I've put inside a case...
I was comming back from a major LAN party, since I was part of the organization team, I had brought a bunch of extra NICs. I didn't have enough hands to carry all of my stuff back home so I put all the NICs (still in the electrostatic bags) inside the tower. When I got home, I immediatly set-up my system and turned it on...
nothing
Odd... I checked the breaker switch and tried again...
nothing
Then I remebered the NICs
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Luckly no permenent damage occured. After I removed the extra NICs, the system booted fine. *whew*
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Some ppl complain, others upgrade! (Add me to the second catagory plz)
I agree....glad I don't service "public" pcs. That is some pretty rank st_t that you all have found in there. And I thought dust bunnies the size of an infant were bad.....
Anyway, I also want to know what ESTO is....I know what the other 2 were...Help? https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Ever stop to think....and forget to start again?
One computer that was donated to us, an IBM PS/1 system that came from Japan had a Yen (i think)coin in it, and the BJ400J that came with it had a pen lid stuck in the gears, and to think my dad was ready to throw the ptinter out.
Methinks, this computer came from a family with children.
PS. it was kinda fun playing with a Japanese version of Win95, but ended up formating the HD in the end.
At my store one of my guys was working on a printer that had been in someones basement or garage for a while. when the guy went to use it...(ready for this) there was a mouse that had gotten inside and died touching the power supply, so when they turned it on, the mouse fried... it was probably the most disgusting thing that I have every seen in my life....
NO JOKE!!