Comment AS/400 destruction in Oz (Score 1) 124
This reminds me of the *attempted* destruction of an AS/400 I read about in the local IT press.
Someone broke into an office, dropped all the backup tapes into a bin of water, pushed the as/400 down the stairs, and repeatedly rammed it with a fork lift in the basement. (10 points for effort
The article said the machine was so extensiely damaged you couldn't tell the front from the rear. Even the disks had popped out of their enclosures. Regardless, IBM were able to repair it and get it booting again.
And when it looked like they would succeed in repairing the box, someone broke in and tried to destroy the machine again! This raised suspicion that it was an inside job and someone was trying to cover their tracks. I didn't hear what happened next.