# Cat dumped a Coke into the wife's laptop.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 18, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560 "2013-08-18T15:07:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/21 "2013-08-22T08:50:26Z")

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> [@Slash1972](#):
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> A friend of mine got syrup on his laptop and the keys were all stuck. He had to leave or something immediately after, so he didn’t get a chance to clean up anything.  
> When he got home, there was _ **a trail of ants from the patio door, across his living room** _, and into the laptop. He just let them go and went to sleep.  
> The next morning, all the ants were gone, and the keyboard worked normally.  
> So, try ants.

(bolding mine)

Leave it outside, like, on the back porch.  
(Sounds like it might even work. Can’t see how it could hurt, at this point.) 😉

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/22 "2013-08-22T09:14:43Z")

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I spilled water on my (desktop) keyboard a few days ago and dried it in the sun for a few hours. Plugged it back in and every key except “c” worked. I took it apart and found part of the circuit corroded, so [I drew over it with a pencil](http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1ktlqm/lpt_spilled_water_on_your_computer_keyboard_try/). It worked again after that.

In your case you’d have to remove the keyboard and clean up the coke residue first, but if after that it still doesn’t work you could try the above method.

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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/23 "2013-08-22T12:59:15Z")

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A [Contact](http://www.lowes.com/pd_172753-12704-40-610_0__) [Cleaner](http://www.walmart.com/ip/CNC-QD-Electronic-Cleaner-11-oz/16817418) is better than alcohol for this kind of thing.

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/24 "2013-08-22T14:17:13Z")

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So the cat screwed the pooch, eh?

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**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/25 "2013-08-22T16:55:10Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> The expensive part is hiring the anteaters to finish up. They don’t tell you that until you’ve already signed up.

Actually, the single greatest expense is buying the snake-eating gorillas to eat the Chinese Needle Snakes that you bought to prey on the Bolivian tree lizards that you introduced to drive out the anteaters. And then disposing of all the dead snake-eating gorillas after they freeze to death in wintertime.

I guess biological pest control is [harder than it looks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother#Plot).

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-dumped-a-coke-into-the-wifes-laptop/666560/26 "2013-08-22T22:25:18Z")

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> [@JBDivmstr](#):
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> Leave it outside, like, on the back porch.  
> (Sounds like it might even work. Can’t see how it could hurt, at this point.) :;

I don’t think ants are attracted to Coke Zero. The OP should pour some syrup on his keyboard first.

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