I am on a university campus, I have a old laptop with me. Runs at 700 Mhz, with FreeBSD 6.2 and 256 MB of ram. I am sitting at one of the computer workstations that they have set up in a huge square area that is fairly open for people to walk in and out of. The place looks like a general mess, and half the lights are out.
Someone from IT walks past, his name was Todd. I ask him a few questions about the hardware and how they have set up the machines, and whether or not he would have some time to fix an apparent issue. He tells me to figure it out on my own. As he walks off I pull out a screw driver from my backpack and shut down the computer. I've got this covered. I pull on both the plastic tabs to open the case, and the side of the case gracefully pops off. Inside we have a Dell Intel motherboard with a quad core CPU, a Nvidia graphics card which is huge, and has a white fan on top of it that kind of wraps around the monstrosity of it.
Two of my friends walk up, Victor and Mark. They are there to check out what I am doing. I see the problem, an IDE cable running to the main hard drive has a few leads showing they look like they are shorting each other out. I fix the problem by applying some electrical tap across the cable and neatly folding it back in place. No more shorts hopefully. At that moment in time a student frantically starts yelling at me to close it back up, at which point Codey walks by and tells me that I am going to get suspended and thrown out of school for violating policy. As I fumble to get the computer closed up, there is a metal plate with holes that are supposed to line up perfectly, they don't. After a while Todd comes back and tells me he needs to speak with me as soon as possible. At this point Victor has fixed the metal plate and put the computer back into its original working order. I hear and see it boot up without a problem as I walk towards my backpack to pick it up.
As I walk over, I stumble over a long bolt and what looks to be a handle on a piece of metal. As I get to the desk where my laptop sits, I see a chair that has been taken apart, has some wheels missing. At that point Todd comes by for a third time, this time telling me to go with him. He looks really pissed as I am holding the different parts of the chair.
We walk to a small room, which said Corporate on the door label. The room is square, very dark and contains many desks. As Todd and I walk in there are two teachers that are just leaving. They are discussing the new photo copier that came in, and how it is faster and more efficient at what it does. At this point a tall Chinese looking lady walks in.
"Cho, this is the student who was ripping the computers apart", Todd says to the Chinese looking lady.
I am sitting on a desk, while Todd takes a seat at another desk, apparently packing up for the end of the day. He has a nice MacBook Pro laptop, he puts it into a leather case.
At the same time Cho comes up to me, and starts shouting at me:
"You know it is illegal to tamper with school property"
"I had permission, from Todd here to figure it out!"
"YOU WILL NOT MESS WITH SCHOOL PROPERTY. WE ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR ASS", she shouts into my ear
She has tiny round glasses on, and the effect is kind of comical as I watch her get more angry. I am sitting on the side of this desk, facing Todd as he wanted to talk to me, and she is leaning forward on both her hands sitting on the corner of the desk. Out of spite, and because she is now blatantly verbally attacking me I move my legs over so that now I am sitting on the table facing her, which also causes her to have to remove her hand from the corner of the table and thus stand back up. I stand up, I shall not to be intimated. She also stands up straight, she is now a few inches taller than me, and I don't care. She starts yelling again, but she should have left it at that.
At this point she puts a hand on my arm, which I push away with a shove from my right arm. This gets her all pissed off. There are two fish bowls sitting on the desk next to where I am seated, Cho grabs it and starts pouring its contents all over me. At which point I myself grab a fish bowl, which also has fish in it, and start emptying its contents over her, at least attempting to. At this time Todd has stepped back up and grabbed the fishbowl I have, but I won't have it. I elbow Todd in the throat and watch as he goes down from not being able to breathe. I grab the bowl Cho is still holding and empty it's contents over her head, and then beat her until she is out on the floor.
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