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Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-geek-squad-terms-of-service dept.

Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.

Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.

Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!

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  1. Summary error... by SCPRedMage · · Score: 5, Informative

    He charged $50 an hour. For 40 hours of "work".

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  2. Re:I Wonder How That Conversation Went by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 3, Informative

    A girl in my dormitory dropped her computer and destroyed her hard drive. Being the CS guru that I am, I assured her I could fix it... sans harddrive. She had already sent the Harddrive back to the manufacturer. There was now a gaping hole in the bottom of her laptop where her harddrive used to be. I told her I could STILL get it to work.

    "But there's no harddrive!"
    "Don't worry, I can fix it."

    So I take her USB drive, load DAMN SMALL LINUX on it, plug it into her computer, and voila! You should have seen the look on her face when I booted up Mozilla and had Facebook running on a computer without a harddrive.
    The media likes to portray us geeks as sorcerers, and sometimes, you can see why.

    She's back on the internet, she's got webmail, she's got facebook, she's got text editors, she's got practically everything she needs for school. (Naturally, I ask her if she's doing anything later, and of course she's 'busy.' Oh well.)