Reminds me of a time way back when a colleague was trying to kill a rogue process, traced it back to its root and cheerfully did "kill -9 1".
Almost immediately the penny dropped, and was rapidly followed by a facepalm heard all the way across the office.
Fortunately the system was back up five minutes later and as it was already running slowly we just told everyone it was overloaded and had crashed and nobody seemed to think that was out of the question.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
