From Reuter's newswire today:
(http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4111495)
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A Truly, Truly Bizarre Story
Mon January 12, 2004 10:19 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.
The store replaced the computer free of charge but became suspicious when he returned a short time later with another potato-filled computer casing, police in the western city of Kaiserslautern said Monday.
"The second time he said he didn't need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash," a police spokesman said.
Police are now investigating the man for fraud.
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Potato *clocks*, okay, but potato computers...? Wait! Pomme de terre... maybe he was trying to pass it off as an "Apple" knockoff? ::grin::
Posted by gris at January 12, 2004 02:08 PM::laugh:: Great minds... (and ours). Had I only gotten up a *little* earlier... naaaaaaah.
Posted by: Gris at January 12, 2004 04:39 PM