Dude, your Dell just freaking blew up!!!
As I sit here typing I'm reminded of what happened at roughly 4
p.m. Central Standard time at my office (about an hour ago);
especially since my hands still smell like 'fire extinguisher'.
While specifying instrumentation tag names on a flow drawing my
attention is turned towards the haze building up on the other side
of the engineering area. I started hearing some distant prattle
about fire, hmmm... what could this possibly be? I think to
myself. Upon further investigation I've come to the conclusion that
someone's Dell laptop just freakin blew up and started a cozy
little desktop fire!!!
Since Im not in the mood for Smores... "Oh, this is priceless" I
think to myself; as I turn straight back to my desk where, from
within my back-pack, I whip out my 7.2MP digital camera.
One of our IT guys put out the flames (yes, I said flames) and
thusly covered the entire area with fire extinguisher material.
The battery burned its way straight through the laptop creating the
beautiful hole with which is so beautifully depicted in the
picture. The fire department showed up. The police department
showed up. The entire lower floor was allowed to leave early and as
we stood there in front of the building we simply couldnt
resist... we jokingly called the engineer a terrorist as he was
being asked a few questions by the friendly officer.
The most priceless moment of this entire ordeal is something that
I, with regret, do not have a picture of. While taking pictures
through the haze (after everyone had evacuated the area and before
the fire department came to kick us out), the engineer whos laptop
it was had been spotted out of the corner of my eye. Apparently he
heard there was a fire and that we all had to go outside. Being the
noble engineer that he is, he quickly wanted to grab his laptop!!!
HAHAHA The look on his face, as he stretched out his arms in
disbelief was priceless!!! Again, Im sorry I didnt get a picture
of that... I was laughing too damn hard! (I was only able to get a
picture of him walking away, as I was intermittently laughing and
coughing at the same time)
Here are a few pictures, please enjoy them as much as the Dell
representatives and the AWESOME crew over at THG surely will when I
send them the link.
Regards,
The Automation Engineer who had to go home early!
