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Another guy saw the BSOD, and then subsequent rebooting and attempts to fix the system being displayed on a "jumbotron" type display on the Las Vegas Strip which lasted a few minutes until the tech apparently realized he should disconnect the big display...

Heh.

This isn't a BSOD story, but what the hell -- one of my jobs in college was working the customer service desk at a discount department store. Among other things, this meant being the guy that would announce things like "Mr Grimley, you have a call on line six. Mister Grimley, line six. *squawk*." Mostly, these announcements were pretty boring, but one of them was pretty memorable:

Would the owner of the brown Nissan Sentra parked near the front door please come to the front of the store? Your car seems to be on fire. Again, would the owner of a late-model brown Nissan Sentra please come to the front of the store -- your car is on fire. *squawk!*

I was told afterwards that in the future it would probably be better not to get into details about why the owner of the car should come to the front of the store, but oh well -- I figured that the people parked near that car needed to know too.

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As for BSOD sightings, I can think of two at the moment, not counting obvious, non-funny places like university computer labs, home, store displays, etc.

* An ATM at the Prague airport had a Czech localized BSOD. It made me proud to be an American to see that we can export localized versions of our broken software...

* A streetside window for the Boston Stock Exchange has a video wall with, among other things, a stock ticker, a CNBC broadcast, and other video content. (Somewhat bizarrely, last time I looked they had a set of speakers playing a monologue by former NPR radio show host Christopher Lydon, rapping on about how wonderful & dynamic the modern market is.) Anyway, it's all meant to be very slick & dynamic & awe-inspiring -- which made the BSOD on some of the screens that Lydon's now-disembodied voice was trying to describe to pedestrians charmingly surreal... :-)

I've also seen them in places like say Circuit City, but that doesn't seem as funny to me. They're floor models, it should be taken as given that they're likely to be flaky; if they're not totally locked down, random customers are definitely going to break things. BSODs on systems that are supposed to be public, stable, and preferably impressive are much funnier.

Something like this?

No you are not going to get any money, it's just going to bluescreen on you

Take your pick:

http://zem.squidly.org/bsod/

http://www.piemaster.co.uk/gallery/BSOD

Here are some of the best examples of windows crashing on high visibility systems that are relied upon:

in the street
At the airport
at the atm
on CNN
At disneyland
On your phone
In an airplane
At the bus stop

Here are some of the best examples of windows crashing on high visibility systems that are relied upon:

in the street
At the airport
at the atm
on CNN
At disneyland
On your phone
In an airplane
At the bus stop

Here are some of the best examples of windows crashing on high visibility systems that are relied upon:

in the street
At the airport
at the atm
on CNN
At disneyland
On your phone
In an airplane
At the bus stop

Here are some of the best examples of windows crashing on high visibility systems that are relied upon:

in the street
At the airport
at the atm
on CNN
At disneyland
On your phone
In an airplane
At the bus stop