I'd like to recount a story I posted at TechTales.com.
I had an obsolete pager whose service had expired. (or the carrier had, I forget which) Useless as a pager but it would still get news, sports and weather headlines. It would 'beep' when a new message was available.
I run a one-man computer shop fixing home PCs.
One of my clients cheated me out of $100 (my fault for not immedietly pocketing the payment while copying the invoice.)
Months later he had the nerve to get it serviced by me again!
I fixed it, put a fresh battery in the useless pager, set it to beep when messages were updated and hid it in a void area in the PC's front cover.
It would beep once at random time intervals even when the computer was unplugged.
Similar in concept to: http://www.shomer-tec.com/product/mind-molester-267.cfm
Adam Sandler films have a similar effect and they're slightly cheaper.
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I'd like to recount a story I posted at TechTales.com.
I had an obsolete pager whose service had expired. (or the carrier had, I forget which)
Useless as a pager but it would still get news, sports and weather headlines.
It would 'beep' when a new message was available.
I run a one-man computer shop fixing home PCs.
One of my clients cheated me out of $100 (my fault for not immedietly pocketing the payment while copying the invoice.)
Months later he had the nerve to get it serviced by me again!
I fixed it, put a fresh battery in the useless pager, set it to beep when messages were updated and hid it in a void area in the PC's front cover.
It would beep once at random time intervals even when the computer was unplugged.
Similar in concept to:
http://www.shomer-tec.com/product/mind-molester-267.cfm
I never heard from him again.
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