From: "Phil Payne" 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Sounds like something out of a Laurel & Hardy old movie...would make a
good
> slapstick video, for sure.

I saw something better once.

An engineer friend of mine - Karl-Gustav von Neubeck - was measuring a
power supply in the back of a disk drive at Bosch in Stuttgart.  He got one
of his probes across a 5v capacitor, and it was a monster.

It completely vapourised the probe.  The copper cloud deposited itself on
poor Karl-Gustav - black as soot.  All of a sudden the air conditioning got
loud - because the computers had gone quiet.

He pulled his specs down to reveal two white circles around his eyes, and
shouted across to the operator - "What did you do?"

The operator looked at him and ran.

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