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The other apprentice picked up the far end of the cable behind him, took a deep drag on his cigarette and blew it down the cable. 100mS later tools went one way and cable the other. Good job he didn't have a dicky ticker!!
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Slight variation on a theme - a guy blew a mouthful of smoke into the rear fan of a large, early 80s video digital effects machine - The front of the machine erupted with smoke, accompanied by a yelp from the engineer and a rapid "power down".
Another little "wheeze" was the fitment of a 555 timer inside the remote plug of a machine. This had the effect of periodically switching the equipment into standby. The entire workshop looked on as the machine repeatedly switched as the guy was looking in the other direction - Happened about 10 times before he noticed - Took him best part of the morning to work out what was going on. He couldn't work out why everyone kept grinning at him - Pretty cruel really I guess in hindsight
pretty funny at the time though
