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Thread ID: 69910	2006-06-16 06:50:00	Hear The Ocean in 5.1	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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463550	2006-06-16 06:50:00	I always seem to find some really cutting-edge technological posts on the places I surf . . . hence the username: SurferJoe46 . . . . Anyway . . . here's another one: "Indestructible . " . . . . . . . . that's how one Santa Clara University maintenance worker described the iPod mini that clogged the schools septic system for months after it was accidentally flushed down a toilet its owner . Lodged in the pipes beneath the office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the device wreaked havoc on the university sewer system for nearly an entire semester, until an independent contractor figured out a novel way of recovering it . NBC-TV11(US) explains: In order to get the iPod out from under that building, crews simultaneously flushed as many toilets as they could and they turned on every sink . That caused a water surge which pushed the iPod into a larger more accessible pipe . Next, a water company was hired to blast water into the pipe in yet another attempt to get the iPod out of the pipe . That effort worked, but at the same time, the blast of water along with a build-up of air caused geysers to burst from the second floor toilets . Sometimes these posts just write themselves . . . :blush:	SurferJoe46 (51)
463551	2006-06-16 08:45:00	I take it the student had crap taste in music (sorry, just couldn't help myself) :blush:	Shortcircuit (1666)
463552	2006-06-18 03:01:00	Did the iPod work when it was recovered? Or was it a warranty claim?	Graham L (2)
463553	2006-06-18 03:23:00	"Indestructible . " . . . . . . . . that's how one Santa Clara University maintenance worker described the iPod mini that clogged the schools septic system for months after it was accidentally flushed down a toilet its owner . Hmmm, indestructible is not how Fair Go described them . . . . . . . . . .	pctek (84)
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