They check in, but they don't check out.

A local business brought in their computer late last week. The had a bad power supply, but the part was proprietary so we ordered a new one.

As the computer sat on the floor a tech noticed a couple cockroaches leaving the machine. We checked the power supply and it was full of dead roaches.

Now we have roaches running all around the shop. I was doing inventory today and it seemed like every time I move something a roach scurries away. We didn't have *any* bug problem a week ago. Now we have to bug bomb the shop.

Does anybody know fumers are bad for computer parts?

should be fine dude, just make sure that everything is powered down, and anything vital that cant be powered down, is covered up.

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Luckuly we don't have a roach roblem in wisconsin, to bad anyway. A few bars downtown have them, had one fall in my beer once from the ceiling, boy, that will cut a night early.

do you guys have any polocy of charging the customer for bringing in the roaches, I would think to exterminate could be quite expencive.

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due i would file a law suit to recover expenxes for bombing the place and i would also never work on thier comp again.

When my family and I moved into our house we had TON's of roaches but after reapeted bug bombings and boric acid in all the corners of the huse we got rid of them all in 3 months.

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sometimes i love bein a canadian... I saw a roach once...tiny little guy my buddys girlfriend moved up from her crappy little place in florida...little guy ran scootin out of a packed box STOMP. Once again CANADA is safe from the invading menace...
come to think about it i aint seen no rats either since i left europe.


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No, we're not going to charge them extra. We'll just spend a few bucks on a do-it-yourself can of fogger at Wal-Mart. I've killed about a dozen little roaches today. I figure there can't be more than a few dozen left. They aren't nesting yet, so the fogger should get them.

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You haven't been to Toronto yet, have you? Our former downtown office building was infested! They kept going after the sugar cubes for the coffee

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R U sure the 'bugs' never came from their windows installation???? Sorry couldn't resist it https://forums.windrivers.com/

Hire a Pest Controller and send them the bill.

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I saw 2 roaches on the sidewalk in Hawaii last week--only the 2nd and 3rd I've ever seen. I guess living in the Northwest is good for something besides moss and webs between my toes....

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That is just WRONG.....YUCK!!! Can you hold the customer liable and make them pay anything on the "fumigation"?
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I hear ya. When I lived in Houston, we'd have the smaller domestic roaches all the time, no matter how much you cleaned (living in an apartment). Sometimes we'd get these big 2" to 3" long wood roaches. You can saddle those babies up for a ride. Yee-haw... https://forums.windrivers.com/

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I hear ya. When I lived in Houston, we'd have the smaller domestic roaches all the time, no matter how much you cleaned (living in an apartment). Sometimes we'd get these big 2" to 3" long wood roaches. You can saddle those babies up for a ride. Yee-haw... [IMG]http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-
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yeah my mom used to live there and she would get these wierd mutant "CLEAR" roaches she said they were like transparent.

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...but after reapeted bug bombings and boric acid in all the corners of the huse we got rid of them all in 3 months.

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Yeah, Boric Acid powder is the way to go...RoachPruf (as advertised by Paul Harvey) is something like 99% boric acid powder. It really does work...

Anyway, Good Luck!
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Yea right!!

Might as well on figuring for every 1 roach you see, there is 2 dozen you don't.....I would get an exterminator in and pronto....that Wal-Mart can of crap ain't gonna get everywhere those exterminators will.....you'll just waste time and $$$$$



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Between Japan(sewer roaches, really big) and Florida (palmetto roaches, flying), I've probably set the global roach population back a coupla K. Got a pellet gun pistol to deal with the menace now. Getting to be a pretty damn good shot with it to.

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I got a computer in one time that had hard drive problems. Upon opening the case I saw dust everywhere. Was afraid to breathe. I pulled the HDD and set it on my desk after a few min a noticed a Silverfish walk out of the bottom of the drive, then another and a third.
I had to take the computer outside and Clean it out then I called the Exterminator and had him spray my office and the office the computer came from. I also left a note for the maid to vacuum better under her desk.
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Another time I had the same thing with a dead Power Supply and upon opening it it had a ton of dead roaches. No live ones.

We had a computer come in once from a tobacco warehouse. Couldn't figure out what the strange smell coming from the computer was until someone saw mouse poop on the motherboard. Ewwwwwwwwwwww....

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hmm some guy brought a computer in he got cheap at an auction sale...that was back in november, it is STILL sitting in the back room? guess he didn't want it back too badly huh?

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Oh man, I worked at Sony for a while. We had problems with people who would bring in stereo systems that didn't work. Low and behold they didn't work cuz they were filled with roaches. Anyway, I once got to read to a client an update from a tech that said "Could not repair unit due to massive roach infestation. Millions of living and dead roaches inside." Needless to say the client wasn't happy.

We just hired an exterminator. In fact, he just left.

The computer came in Tuesday. We saw two bugs on Tuesday.

Wednesday we saw two big roaches.
Thurday we saw four roaches.
Friday we saw four roaches.
Monday I killed a dozen.
Tuesday I killed about eight, some were babies.
Wednesday I killed about five small ones.
Thursday I only killed two babies.
Today I haven't seen any. Hopefully I won't see any more.

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I once went out on a job (the usual "my computer's broke" type) only to find that the guy's house was CARPETED in roaches!
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It was truly disgusting. I walked out and told my boss that he couldn't pay me enough to go back.

He didn't believe me until the next guy he sent out came back with the same story. I still have nightmares.

I made the mistake this weekend of renting "Joe's Apartment". EEEEEWWWW. Brought back all those icky memories!

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Yesterday I was bored and decided to browse http://www.computerpranks.com and came across Vermin, which puts cockroaches on your desktop that you can sqish(hey, you can even change the guts color), for some reason it reminded me of this thread.
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On monday I saw three live roaches. All three were very lethargic. They walked away. They were easy kills.

Today I saw four roaches. Two of them were lethargic, but two seemed pretty frisky. I killed them all.

I assume the poison is working. I've been finding a lot of dead roaches. I asume the slow roaches are in the process of dying. I'm glad the exterminator gave them the "long and slow death" formula.

Supposedly it takes a week for them all to die off. I hope they're all gone by Friday.

Well, back when I was in High School, We had cockroaches 12 inches long that ran across the floor in the cafeteria. Needless to say, when I could, I left campus to eat lunch.

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I live in Texas and they can get big and bad down here. I had a nieghbor who was ver dirty people, never had roaches till they came along and we moved. The roaches seemed to have moved with us, I found some stuff from combat that comes in an epoxy looking tube. You put it in all your cracks and corners and it kills them permanantly. Since I used that stuff they are all gone and never ever had that problem again. In fact it looks like a big shot.

Im just glad i dont work in our warehouse

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On monday I saw three live roaches. All three were very lethargic. They walked away. They were easy kills.

Today I saw four roaches. Two of them were lethargic, but two seemed pretty frisky. I killed them all.

I assume the poison is working. I've been finding a lot of dead roaches. I asume the slow roaches are in the process of dying. I'm glad the exterminator gave them the "long and slow death" formula.

Supposedly it takes a week for them all to die off. I hope they're all gone by Friday.

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You haven't been to Toronto yet, have you? Our former downtown office building was infested! They kept going after the sugar cubes for the coffee

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I think they're just a SWOntario thing. It's the American's way of getting back at us for not giving up everything to the 49th parallel. LOL!

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- I only came for the platypus soup

We get dead gekko's across the power supply terminals at least every 2 weeks. Sometimes they are fried and dry and sometimes they are fresh with maggots.

The funniest thing was when a guy dropped his IBM PC off and left it for us to fix. He then moved away and has not called us since. That was 15 months ago. His PC is running away as our Internet access server and is doing a nice job with another 7 months waranty left on it.

Gotta luv kustomerz.

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Gross Story,
Charge them.
Take Pictures.
Post them to us.
Mail them to the customer.
RMA the roached powersupply.

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And that would be 54'40 on the Pacific Coast.... https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Just a quick reminder:

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I do feel your pain ... any more if I so much as see a wing, out the door it goes and I refuse to work on it!

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