Tue, 13 Jan 2004
Fries to go ...
Grabbed from The
Guardian without apology:
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?"
Meanwhile, in other news, the King of Swaziland is asking his
government to build new royal palaces for each of his wives
(all eleven of them), Tokyo and Seoul are heading for the
diplomatic deep-freeze in a row over postage stamps, and a
Cardinal has gone on record as saying that while abstinence is
preferable, he thinks it's acceptable to use a condom to
prevent the spread of AIDS -- as long as you're already
HIV-positive.
Somebody shoot the script-writer, please.
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