Public BSOD Sightings?

Sanksa Wott asks: "My travels over the weekend brought me to a very popular fast food restaurant, where, in the drive-through I was greeted with, what else... a blue screen! Since BSOD's can show up almost anywhere, I thought I would ask: 'What has your funniest/most interesting/noteworthy/etc. encounter with public displays of the BSOD been like?' Note: This isn't meant to be a troll, so lets be nice ;)"

Comments

My personal favorite

[revmoo]

My personal favorite BSOD is the one where Bill Gates was doing a keynote showing off the new features of Windows 98 and it crashed on a massive screen in front of hundreds of people.

Priceless :-)

I saw one at McDonalds this weekend also

[setzman]

I went through the drive-through, and the total came out to around $10 + some change. Not wanting to break the $20 bill I had (a new one) into a five and ones, I found the correct change and feed the computer the $20 and the change. The computer did not comprehend this input, however, and a human had to intervene by helping the computer count the proper change. The human assistant, however, still got the change wrong, as I received a five, five ones, and a dime back. I still don't understand why neither the human or the computer could figure that one out.

The computer model was human high-school female type, and the human assistant was a manager.

BSODs

[CyberVenom]

Lets see...

I've seen a BSOD on the local access cable channel.

I've seen a BSOD on the ATM at defcon (sorta. Wasn't really blue, but it was a major crash)

The best, though by far was when I went to Target and they had 3 consoles set up side by side. X-Box on the left, PS2 in the center, and GameCube on the right. The PS2 and GameCube were working just fine, demoing Tony Hawk and StarFox I think. The X-Box on the other hand was sitting there at a Black-Screen-Of-Death that was the same as a BSOD only black. (wow! great upgrade, Microsoft! No more Blue Screen of Death!) That really says a lot about the comparative reliability of those three systems. I'm glad Target was kind enough to provide the public with this demonstration: comparison shopping it its best!

Not a BSOD, but...

[sailracer6]

At the top-10 American university I go to, there's a big plasma screen behind the main information desk that shows a slideshow of school events.

Imagine my surprise when, one day, the screen informs me that I can get a

U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.I.P.L.O.M.A

from home, courtesy of Windows Messenger!

Re:TV Station

[Feztaa]

I once saw the on screen scrolling Guide (now owned by TV Guide) crash and it was sitting at an AmigaDOS console prompt.

One time, at 3 AM, I was surfing, and when I got to the TV Guide channel, what did I see? A MacOS 9 desktop, with some pebbles as the desktop wallpaper. I must have watched that sit there doing nothing for 2 hours before the mouse started to move and then I got to watch some guy launch the TVGuide program :)

Re:Warner Village

[Gleng]

Hehe, you should've Goatse'd it and walked off.