Reply to post: Re: Lost at Sea

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

MGyrFalcon

Re: Lost at Sea

I had a friend who was in the US Navy many years ago and as the story goes...They had a computer system on the ship that was just horrible. Everyone hated it, it wouldn't work right, etc. One day my friend waltzed behind it with a hand full of crushed steel wool shards and blew them into the fan intake. That of course killed the offending kit. I don't know if they claimed it 'Lost at Sea', but he said they did take it up to the flight deck and pushed it off the back while underway.

All hearsay, though he claimed to be directly involved. Good story if it was true.

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