Most dangerous thing I;ve done in IT
A few years back I was doing some temp work at a school scavaging a room full of old PC's for parts. It was alot of fun. Me, left alone in a room full of old PC's, cables, equipemnt and random crap. Ripping the guts out of PC's creating piles of RAM, HD's, dvd/cd/floppy drives, cables etc. Lots of fun making sure all the equipment too old to use wouldn't be used by anyone else (Hammer time!).

Then came the dangerous bit. Testing the power packs. Was told to plug em into the wall and see if they work or not. Fun. Have you every plugged a power pack in and have it blow on you? Sizzling electric sound. Sparks. Big pop. Lots of smoke. Distinct odour of burning plastic. Repeat 20 times. After the 1st blown power pack I started using a broken wooden chair leg to turn them on. I swear that leg had burn marks on it by the time I had finished.

The next day I found myself actualy enjoying gluing the mouse covers onto the mice to stop the kids from nicking em to throw at each other.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 11:54, Reply)