Andy Chase

From The Guardian | Computer's chips turn into potatoes:

Staff at a department store in the German city of Kaiserslautern called detectives after an angry customer tried to return a computer stuffed with potatoes to the shop twice on the same day.

The man berated sales assistants in the store, complaining that the computer he had bought only hours before did not work, according to police reports.

The store's staff opened the machine and discovered it was not functioning because its working parts had been replaced with small potatoes. The bemused shop assistants gave the man a new computer free of charge.

But bemusement turned to suspicion when the shopper returned a short while later with another computer - again potato-filled.

Police were called and the man was arrested.

It sounds like a sketch comedy vignette, but this is actually some guy. Some guy bought a computer, went home, and very deliberately removed the side panel and inner components, filled the compartment with potatoes, and put the panel back on - and just as though he had installed a new sound card or some RAM, he assumed it would work.

Potatoes!

While very amusing on one level, it's very disturbing on another... that's well beyond mistaking the CD tray for a cup holder, it's closer to "The neighbor's dog told me to kill those people." Or fill the computer with potatoes for a start.