Weird But True
A tech for Texas Instruments notebooks received a call from a man who lived deep in the country. The man was working on the notebook in his cabin before going to bed. He left the notebook on his kitchen table turned on. The notebook went into power-save mode after a few minutes. A raccoon crawled into an open window and stepped on a key on the notebook. The notebook came to life, lit up the screen and began to make the usual computer noises. This scared the raccoon, who urinated on the machine. The man woke up to find that both his notebook and the raccoon were dead. He was calling tech support to see if this sort of action would be covered under warranty. The tech had to put the customer on hold because he was laughing so hard. When he regained his composure, he got back on the phone and told the customer that this would not be covered under warranty, however, he would said he would not log the call and referred the customer to customer service so he could tell the customer service rep that he was going to sue because TI killed his pet raccoon.
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