Tech Support South African Style!

[cybirea.livejournal.com]

This is from an e-mail sent to me by a South African Tech Support colleague. It's second hand information. Just thought I'd pass it on. :-)

'Hello, technical support, how can I help you'?

Customer: 'Last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me so I shut it down. This morning when I turned it on the computer started hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then nothing'.

SUPPORT: 'I will have a technician come over first thing this morning, just leave the computer just like it is, so they can find the problem and fix it, or change it out with another computer. Give me your address; phone number and the technician will be there just as soon as they can'.

When the technician got there, the lady showed the technician where the computer was, said what happened to it; this is what the technician found.



Click to get a bigger image. :-)













It's a South African Spitting Cobra better known as a 'Mfezi' the 'Staffie'!

The worse thing I have to deal with is house spiders and dust. I love living in a temperate climate!

Comments

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

EEP!

I'm SO glad I live in Canada, and in an urban area. We really don't end to get critters in our machines like that. D:

[claidheamhmor]

I thought you guys got deer and things in your machines? :)

[heuteistmeintag.livejournal.com]

our polarbears avoid our pcs because they generate too much heat :-)

my roommate is from somewhere near johannesburg. i have to show him this post

[miertam.livejournal.com]

I thought Polar Bears used macs. :)

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

Hmm. So did I. ;)

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

That's only during the mating season, when anything making a low hum (even a subsonic one) is pretty much asking for it.

[heuteistmeintag.livejournal.com]

i guess it depends on what part of Surrey you are talking about. i don't consider anything southe of fraser hwy / east of 152 urban :-p

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

Heh. We're very close to KGH and 104 Ave, actually.

[heuteistmeintag.livejournal.com]

I see your Whalley and raise your my Guildford!

Goodness it has been ages since I've been back in Surry :-(

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

wait that the racoons come :-)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

We took a VCR to a repairman once and (after he found a packing peanut stuck inside the mechanism) he told us about having found a mouse and a snake inside machines on separate occasions. It wasn't urban, but it was Canada (southeastern Ontario).

I'd expect to see more cases of critters inside machines in urban areas, just because critters live closer to humans there.