Most consumers unassumingly entrust the technicians that a cable caller or any other kind of serve provider sends to their door , but this incident is a flametastic reminder that just because they ’re wear out a badge does n’t mean they know what they ’re doing . A tech for Comcast prove up at this cleaning lady ’s house to install her cable modem , but curve up set off her Powerbook after plugging the coaxial cable from the modem into a “ similar - appear ” electrical cable length while the Powerbook was still connected to it . resolution ?
Everything on the desk was blackened with soot and burned either partly or completely . Three external intemperate driveway , a digital television camera , videotape , paper , CD ’s , etc . The floor , wall , and radiator top were incinerate , along with the tabletop .
Every cable that was connect to the laptop , Ethernet , Firewire , Power , and USB , was forcibly shot out of each portal , and each portal covered with the black smut . Metal bits and electronic junk from the mogul cable hub and other cables was scattered around the room and some telegram had divide apart into copper tittle . Molten silverish metallic element bit are still lodged in the windowsill .
Ouch . While Comcast take province and pay for the harm as well as data point recovery services for the hard parkway and is in the slow process of bear for the harm , it ’s a harsh mode to learn that techs do n’t cognise everything . Though Gizmodo does .
The full history of how the cable caller incinerated my Powerbook.[MacWork viaConsumerist ]
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