Well, being a now-Chairborne warrior, I can only describe my untimely demise in such fashion:
I’m sitting at my computer, banging on the keyboard, making paper come out of the printer. Suddenly a scream erupts from the copier/fax room: it’s a toner leak! Being the only rated HAZMAT/Toner guy on the floor, I immediately don my Kevlar flak jacket and helmet, as well as my response vest (always stowed in my system furniture’s overhead storage), and emerge from my cubicle ready for work.
I immediately storm down the hall, to where a small crowd has gathered around the doorway to the copier room. I part the crowd and notice the one lady who shrieked in panic still standing there, pointing at the puddle of toner on the floor. I ask her what happened, and she whimpers, “I came in here to send a fax to Montana, when I noticed the leak. . . and when I looked at the control panel, it kept blinking. I didn’t know what else to do!” I quietly tell her it’s all going to be alright, and escort her out of the room.
I square off to the machine, and notice that the power to the shredder and the fax machine are still on. This is good–I don’t want a power fluctuation to the copier sparking across the toner, igniting it all in the fraction of a second. But, with toner leaking all over the place, I don’t have much time–the laminating machine is still powered up and the warmed plastic might just set everything off.
Immediately, I whip out my SOG tool and flashlight. Despite the danger, I lay in the puddle on the floor, and gently open Tray 1 and Tray 2, removing the potentially flammable A4 paper and the 11x17" sheets. I peer inside the guts of the monster and can clearly see three wires connected from the main power bus to the drum, which seems to have worn a leak in the toner tray. . . I’ve got a one in three chance: I can cut the blue, the green, or the red. With time running out, the laminating machine warming up, and toner leaking all over me and the floor, I have to make a snap decision. . .
Unfortunately, I cut the green wire. :smack:
Tripler
PowerPoint Ranger, Very Special Forces, XVIII Chairborne Corps