It's 2 a.m. Somewhere in Britain. The main system at a 24-hour service facility crashes. The "main man" is called in. A cuppa (British for a cup of tea) is waiting for said "main man" upon his arrival. Let's see where the tale takes us, as we enter...The Blooper Zone.
Let's call the "main man" Bubba. Bubba's a little grumbly this morning, having been awakened in the middle of the night to fix things. So, he grabs his tea and shuffles sleepily to the main server, muttering all the while. He takes one piece of the server out, then another and another. Tea keeps coming, because that's all our blooper submitter could do; well, bring tea and cross his fingers.
Eventually, the grunts of frustration change tone. Could that be satisfaction in Bubba's voice as he declares, "A mouse peed on the board."
"What?" asks an innocent and helpless bystander.
"A bloody mouse peed on the motherboard!" Bubba roars back. Realizing that this is just about the silliest thing to crash a main server, the two workers burst into tears of laughter. The cold weather had apparently driven the tiny rodent indoors where she made a hot little home for herself in the back of the server. The problem was that she picked the motherboard to be her bathroom.
Bubba, however, was one prepared man. He must have been a British Boy Scout. Bubba had brought spare boards.
Four hours after his arrival, just as the sun was coming up, Bubba departed, leaving the server up and buzzing happily, the first calls of the day coming in and the mouse homeless. Bubba had implemented a new mouse-proof backdoor complete with mouse-proof lock. However, as those of you with mice "companions" know, hardly anything is mouse-proof for very long. Let's just imagine the mouse warm and cozy in some harmless place, shall we?
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