Toshiba dynabook A8 The CRASH / The CRASH! Posted by zmcnulty on Jan 20, 2006 - 12:07 AM |
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Not every edition of "The Crash" ends in tears. This week, Mr. Stray Cat Food scores himself a free laptop.   Victim Mr. Kanagawa Stray Cat Food Scene of Accident Parents' house Broken Item Toshiba dynabook A8 Details of Accident I went to my parents' house for Obon last year. I was just relaxing, something I hadn't done in a long time, when I decided to go home. As I casually glanced over at the PC my mother has and uses on her table, the LCD was broken. "It was fine a second ago," I said as I looked next to it, and there was my child (1 year old) with a shit eating grin on his face as he played atop the table. It seems he was standing on the laptop. Repair Costs Buying a new PC cost about 110,000 yen. I was going to reimburse my mother ford it, but she wouldn't accept it, so my personal cost was zero yen. More from the Contributor I earnestly apologized to my mother and wanted to put it in for repairs, but it seemed as though she had already purchased a new machine. When I went home at New Years', I asked her about the machine; it was just sitting there in the closet. It now is serving its final years as a web camera server at my house. Inspired by: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/readers/crash/27390.html [1] dynabook |
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This article is from TechJapan http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1233 Links in this article [1] http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/readers/crash/27390.html |