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The potato PC (Read 884 times)
Jan 13
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, 2004 at 6:09am
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All I can say is this guy should nominate himself for Twit of The Year in Germany!
Staff at a department store in the German city of Kaiserslautern called detectives after an angry customer tried to return a computer stuffed with potatoes to the shop twice on the same day.
The man berated sales assistants in the store, complaining that the computer he had bought only hours before did not work, according to police reports.
The store's staff opened the machine and discovered it was not functioning because its working parts had been replaced with small potatoes. The bemused shop assistants gave the man a new computer free of charge.
But bemusement turned to suspicion when the shopper returned a short while later with another computer - again potato-filled.
Police were called and the man was arrested.
A spokesman said: "The second time he said he didn't need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash." Roman Zukoan, a computer technician who works in the Nexos computer shop, also in Kaiserslautern, said: "It is hard to imagine how the potatoes could get into a computer's casing.
"When computers leave the factory they are packed in plastic to prevent damage from condensation.
"If they are running for a long time they get hot and in theory it would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try that?"
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"If they are running for a long time they get hot and in theory it would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try that?"
Fozzer?
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Jan 13
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LMAO.............!
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I wouldn't put it past him. If he sees this he might even try it. Stay tuned to this station.
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Jan 13
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lmao thats great
Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac
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Jan 13
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lmao
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Jan 13
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oh...my...god.
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Jan 13
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what a novel idea....
I have heard of cooking meals in the drying cycle of automatic dishwashers.....
BUT never in a computer....
HMMMM
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Jan 13
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That guy sounds "baked" if you ask me!
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Jan 13
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Hmm, p4's for Jacket potato's & AMD's for mash?
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Jan 13
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LMAO
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Jan 13
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Did anyone think to ask what he did with all the innards?
Maybe he's not so daft as they seem to think.
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Jan 13
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Lmao!
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Did anyone think to ask what he did with all the innards?
Maybe he's not so daft as they seem to think.
I didn't think of that, till you said it. But now he'll probably get a fine or...something.
Should have just asked for his money back the first time.
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Jan 13
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I'm surprise the store gave the guy a new PC the first time around, but going back a second time was just pure greed! Didn't this guy think the store would get wise to him? I tell ya, some peolpe really got a set of brass b*lls on them.
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Jan 13
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DAMN! There goes my idea!
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Jan 13
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lmao thats funny!
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Jan 13
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"No, just a Pentium potato chip!!"
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