[geeks] Venting anger the fun way.

[James Sharp]

> Gary Nichols wrote:
> > 
> > Eons ago I had a Packard Bell computer that kept overheating.  I solved
> > the problem by dropping it in the desert and treating it to 5 magazines of
> > .380 ammunition.
> > 
> Once I had a VCR with a stuck tape in it. I threw it into the street,
> jumped up & down on it for a while, then finally emptied a full clip of
> .45's into it. I then promptly took it to a store that had a BIG banner
> out from "We fix ANY VCR $29.95" :) In the store they pointed out the
> fine print that says they can refuse to service any unit, and they
> refused mine, but I can't imagine why!
> 

my dad did something like that.  A serial data mux that got shipped between his office and Datarace half a dozen times, each time going back with "Problem still not fixed" and coming back with "Problem not duplicatable on bench".  A .357 slug through it fixed that problem.