{"id":2125,"date":"2004-01-12T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/12\/apple-computers-pshawtry-potato-processing\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:07:53","slug":"apple-computers-pshawtry-potato-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/12\/apple-computers-pshawtry-potato-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Computers? Pshaw&#8230;try Potato Processing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the most inventive (and stupid) ways I&#8217;ve heard of yet to try to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/odd\/article\/id\/378496%7Coddlyenough%7C01-12-2004::11:06%7Creuters.html\" title=\"German Police Investigate Potato Computer Scam\">score some free computer parts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.<\/p>\n<p>  The store replaced the computer free of charge but became suspicious when he returned a short time later with another potato-filled computer casing, police in the western city of Kaiserslautern said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The second time he said he didn&#8217;t need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash,&#8221; a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>  Police are now investigating the man for fraud.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004_01_11_archive.asp#107397108963769802\" title=\"Small potatoes\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Voodoo People&#8221; by Prodigy, The from the album <em>Hackers<\/em> (1994, 4:08).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}