This story from The Guardian made me laugh.

An angry customer tried to return a computer complaining that the computer he had bought only hours before did not work, according to police reports. The store’s staff opened the machine and discovered it was not functioning because its working parts had been replaced with small potatoes. The bemused shop assistants gave the man a new computer free of charge.

He would have got away with it if he hadn’t tried the same thing, at the same store, a few hours later.

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    potato potato peas peas

    Chris points out an unfortunate story. Good geekery from the spokesman: “If they are running for a long time they get hot and in theory it would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try…

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