Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03.39, James Knott wrote:
In one place where I worked, we'd take a single strand of wire from AC power cable and wrap it around the pins on someone's power plug, and wait for him to plug it in.
In high school electronics shop, we'd charge a capacitor to a about 200V and toss it to someone.
And many years ago, I was taking a course on the Datapoint 2200, which used cassettes for data storage. I'd wait until someone was almost finished typing in his program code, and then "accidentally" trip over the power cord, before he had a chance to save his code. ;-)
You're either dangerously insane or lying through your teeth. Let me guess: "joke ideas I thought up while reading BOFH episodes"
They are real. And there are many others. For example, I used to service teletypes many years ago. Those devices had tape punches. We'd get some of the chad (the stuff they love in Florida <g>) and put it under the fan of a machine that someone else was working on, and wait for them to turn it on. Then there's the stink bomb taped to the break pedal of a Volkswagon Beetle, in February, or moving that same VW, with the key lock only on the drivers side, so that the drivers door was up against a wall etc. Ahhh... The good old days. ;-)