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Or, as I call it

THE PAGES OF THE FIVE ARSE MONKEY
(Fans of the Southpark cartoon will know what this is about)

On this page, you'll find a lotta stuff written about ...
The 200 Monkeys Joke
Some Darwin Awards
The infamous JATO idiot
Stupid criminals
The chicken gun incident
Gorilla comedians
Some Hong Kong movie quotes, from the english subtitles.
Computer Morons making complete fools of themselves to help desks.
 

The 200 Monkeys Joke.

I like monkeys.

The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200.

I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall.

Although humourous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately, there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.

I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odour wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.

I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said that the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them, but I could tell they were lying.

Ingrates.

So I punched them in the genitals.

I like monkeys.

* No monkeys were harmed in the writing of this text.

The Darwin Awards
Have you heard of the Darwin Awards? They're for the people that do the gene pool a favour by removing themselves from society due to their stupidity. Here's a sample -

It is once again time for the Darwin Award nominees for 1996/7.  As you may already know, the Darwin Awards are for those nominees who contribute to the gene pool by dying in spectacularly stupid ways before they breed  (thankfully).
The 1996/7 nominees are:
NOMINEE No. 1 [San Jose Mercury News, USA]
An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

NOMINEE No. 2 [Kalamazoo Gazette, USA]
James Burns, 34, of Alamo, Mich., was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police described as a "farm-type truck."  Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung  underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

NOMINEE No. 3 [Hickory Daily Record, USA]
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in  Newton, N.C., when, awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

NOMINEE No. 4 [UPI, Toronto, Canada]
Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawyers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.

NOMINEE No. 5 [Bloomburg News Service, USA]
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his near airtight bedroom.  According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalised.

NOMINEE No. 6 [The News of the Weird, USA]
Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison.  Whilst sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

NOMINEE No. 7 ["The Indianapolis Star", USA]
A cigarette lighter may have triggered fatal explosion - Dunkirk, Indiana. A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about 11:30 p.m. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a .54-caliber muzzle loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

NOMINEE No. 8 [AP, St. Louis, USA]
Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market.  When the clerk threatened to call police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it. Police found him unconscious in front of the store; paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat, where it had choked him to death.

NOMINEE No. 9 [Unknown, USA]
To poacher Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him.

NOMINEE No. 10 [Associated Press, Kincaid, USA]
Blasting Cap Explodes in Man's Mouth at Party.  A man at a party popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth and tongue, state police said Wednesday. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during a party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D.Payne. 'Another man had it in an aquarium, hooked to a battery, and was trying to explode it," Payne said. "It wouldn't go off and this guy said,  'I'll show you how to set it off."

NOMINEE No. 11 [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario, USA]
A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko,  55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel regional police. "It appears the chair moved and he went over the balcony," Honer said.

NOMINEE No. 12 [UPI, Portland, USA]
Doctors at Portland's University Hospital said Wednesday an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive, and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous, in Grants Pass, OR. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Roberts' right eye. Doctors said had the arrow gone 1 millimetre to the left, a major blood vessel would have cut and Roberts would have died instantly. Neurosurgeon Dr. Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain, with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels.  Delashaw also said that if Robert had tried to pull the arrow out he surely would have killed himself. Roberts admitted afterwards he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this."

NOMINEE No. 13 [The Calgary Sun, VANCOUVER, Canada]
A man arguing over a love triangle accidentally shot himself in the groin, taking off his testicles and part of his penis.  Police said the man was waving a .357 Magnum revolver around during the shouting match early yesterday. But when he stuffed it back in his pants the gun went off. Police were called to the hospital after the man in his 20s was brought in by friends.  Charges are pending against the victim, who is expected to survive.

AND FINALLY, NOMINEE No. 14!!! [Arkansas Democrat Gazette, USA]
Two local men were seriously injured when their pick-up truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday morning. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are listed in serious condition at Baptist Medical Centre. The accident occurred as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog gigging trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck headlights  malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 calibre bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on east-bound toward the White River bridge. After travelling approximately twenty miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply to the right exiting the pavement and striking a tree.  Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident, but will require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his _____ off or we might both be dead" stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper for ten years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident  happened", said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia, Poole's wife asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck.

And the winner is...
John Pernicky and friend Sal Hawkins, of the state of Washington, USA, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the Amphitheater at Gorge, Washington. Having no tickets, but 18 beers among them they sat in the parking lot and after finishing the beer, decided that it would be easy enough to hop over the nine foot high fence and sneak into the show. The two friends pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for John, 100 pounds heavier than Sal, to hop over, and then assist his friend over the fence. Unfortunately for John, the Fence was a 30 foot drop on the other side.  Having heaved himself over he found himself crashing through a tree, falling to the ground. His fall was abruptly stopped by a large branch which had been snagged by his shorts. Dangling from the tree, with one arm broken, John looked down and saw a group of bushes below him.  Figuring the bushes would break his fall, John removed his pocket knife and proceed to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree.  When finally free, John crashed below into, Holly Bushes, The sharp leaves scratched his  whole body, and now being without his shorts he was the unwilling victim of a holly branch penetrating his rectal cavity. To make matters worse, his pocket knife proceeded to fall with him and landed three inches into his left thigh.  Seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, Sal decided to throw him a rope and pull him to safety. However, weighing about 100 pounds less, he decided the best course of action would be to tie the rope to the pickup truck. This is when things went bad. Sal in his drunken state, put the truck into the wrong gear, and proceeded to press on the gas and crash through the fence, landing on and killing his, friend. Sal was thrown from the truck, suffered massive internal injuries and died at the scene. Police arrived to find, a pickup truck with its driver thrown 100 feet from the vehicle and, upon moving the truck, a half naked man with numerous scratches, a holly stick up his butt, a knife in his thigh and a pair of shorts dangling from the trees 25 feet in the air.

As far as I know this is all genuine stuff. The Darwin award is presented every year - last year to a guy who thought he would fly around his garden in a garden chair attached to four weather balloons. He was eventually spotted by the  pilots of a 747, entering the restricted airspace of Los Angeles airport.

Some late additions, from 1998 -
 Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalised in Andover Township, NJ, USA, in September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed.

Taking "Amateur Night" Too Far: In Betulia, Colombia, an annual festival in November includes five days of amateur bullfighting. This year, no bull was killed, but dozens of matadors were injured, including one gored in the head and another lost his, um, 'manhood!'. Said one participant, "It's just one bull against [a town of] a thousand Morons."
 

There is also the 'infamous' story of the chap who found a spare rocket, and thought he'd find a use for it -

THIS 1967 CHEVY IMPALA IS DEFINITELY FASTER THAN A HONDA NSX

The Darwin Award - It's an annual honour given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.

Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a soda machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.

And this year's nominee is:
    The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smouldering metal embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an aeroplane crash, but it was a car.  The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.  The lab finally figured out what it was and what happened.
    It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit.  Jet Assisted Take Off - actually a solid fuel rocket that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from short airfields. He had driven his 1967 Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road.  Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the JATO.
    The facts as best as could be determined are that the operator of the  Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site. This was established by the prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location.
    The JATO, if operating properly would have reached maximum thrust within five seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 mph and continuing at full power for 20-25 seconds.  The driver, soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for F-14 jocks
under full afterburner, basically causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event.
    However, the car remained on the straight for about 2.5 miles (25-30 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tyres and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet, leaving a blackened crater three feet deep in the rock.
    Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable, however; small  fragments of one tooth, and hair were extracted from the crater and  fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

(Ok, now for the really sad part - The story isn't true, it was just made up by someone that's got even more spare time than I do ...   A pity, 'cause it's a heck of a good one!)
 

Ok, on to Stupid Criminals
Kentucky, USA (where else?): Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their car. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their car. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper bar still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper bar.

South Carolina, USA: A man walked into a local police station, dropped a bag of cocaine on the counter, informed the desk sergeant that it was substandard cut, and asked that the person who sold it to him be arrested immediately.

Indiana, USA: A man walked up to a cashier at a grocery store and demanded all the money in the register. When the cashier handed him the loot, he fled - leaving his wallet on the counter.

England: A German "tourist," supposedly on a golf holiday, shows up at customs with his golf bag. While making idle chatter about golf, the customs official realises that the tourist does not know what a "handicap" is. The customs official asks the tourist to demonstrate his swing, which he does - backward! A substantial amount of narcotics was found in the golf bag.

Germany: Oil of Olay no longer turning the trick for her, a woman decided that she would bathe in the milk of a camel (a modern-day Cleopatra). So she stole a camel from the local zoo (where *else* can you find a camel when you need one?) and transported it back to her house - where she realised that the camel's name was "Otto."
(Editor's Note 2: She might not have gotten much milk from Otto, but she probably made a friend for life while trying to ...)

Arizona, USA: A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies, etc. One day, they received a call from a 47-year-old woman, who wanted to have her husband killed. She got 4-1/2 years in jail.

Texas, USA: A man convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than serve a prison sentence. For payment, he provided the court a check - a *forged* check. He got 10 years.

USA: A man went into a drug store, pulled a gun, announced a robbery, and pulled a Hefty-bag face mask over his head - and realised that he'd forgotten to cut eye holes in the mask.

USA: A man successfully broke into a bank after hours and stole - are you ready for this? - the bank's video camera. While it was recording. Remotely. (That is, the videotape recorder was located elsewhere in the bank, so he didn't get the videotape of himself stealing the camera. The police, however, *did*.)

USA:  A man successfully broke into a bank's basement through a street-level window, cutting himself up pretty badly in the process.  He then realised that (1) he could not get to the money from where he was, (2) he could not climb back out the window through which he had entered, and (3) he was bleeding pretty badly. So he located a phone and dialled "911" for help ...

Virginia, USA: Two men in a pickup truck went to a new-home site to steal a refrigerator. Banging up walls, floors, etc., they snatched a refrigerator from one of the houses, and loaded it onto the truck. The truck promptly got stuck in the mud, so these brain surgeons decided that the refrigerator was too heavy. Banging up more walls, floors, etc., they put the refrigerator BACK into the house, and returned to the  truck, only to realise that they locked the keys in the truck - so they abandoned it.

USA: A man walked into a Circle-K (a convenience store similar to a 7-11), put a $20 note on the counter and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and ran out of the shop, leaving the $20 note behind. He stole a grand total of $15, thus losing $5 in the process ...
 

How about the famous (At least in Aviation circles) Chicken Gun incident?
Scientists at NASA have developed a gun for the purpose of launching dead chickens.  It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshield of airline jet, military jet, or the space shuttle, at that vehicle's maximum travelling velocity.  The idea being, that it would simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne chook, and therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough to endure high-speed bird strikes. British engineers, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test the gun out on the windshield of their new high-speed trains.  However, upon the firing of the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself  into the back wall of the cabin.  Horrified, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and asked the NASA scientists for any suggestions. The NASA scientists sent back a one sentence response:  "Thaw the chicken."
One person who used to work for British Aerospace tells a similar story (which he swears is true), that these machines are actually used to fire chickens into jet engines to simulate birdstrikes on the compressor blades. To thaw the chicken, someone left it in the gun overnight and performed the test in the morning. The results were somewhat different from the expected, and close examination of the high speed video footage showed a very startled-looking stray cat clinging to a half-eaten chicken as it exited the gun at Mach 0.7.
 

A Gorilla dressed as a WHAT?
A hunter in Uganda is being sought by local authorities for illegally hunting gorillas. He shoots them with a tranquilliser gun and dresses them in clown suits. So far six gorillas have been found wandering around in this condition.
A Ugandan spokesman stated that this was a person with a truly sick sense of humour. They felt this was a cruel practice, since they had to tranquillise the gorillas again to take the suits off!
 

Some genuine Hong Kong movie quotes, as read from the english subtitles.

- I am darn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
- Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep.
- Gun wounds again?
- Same old rules: no eyes, no groin.
- A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries.
- Darn, I'll burn you into a BBQ chicken
- Take my advice, or I'll spank you.
- Who gave you the nerve to get killed here?
- This will be of fine service for you, you bag of the scum.  I am sure you will not mind that I remove your toenails and leave them out on the dessert floor for ants to eat.
- Quiet or I'll blow your throat up.
- I'll fire aimlessly if you don't come out!
- You daring lousy guy.
- Beat him out of recognisable shape!
- Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your doctor for a thorough extermination.
- I have been scared silly too much lately.
- I got knife scars more than the number of your leg's hair!
- Beware!  Your bones are going to be disconnected.
- The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
- How can you use my intestines as a gift?
- Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some butt of the giant lizard person.
- You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken.
 
 

Computer morons, who should've NEVER been allowed near such a device!
Computers will never be completely "idiot proof" because idiots continue to be so resourceful. The following is an excerpt taken from  a Wall Street Journal article:
1.  Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any  Key"  to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on.  The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn't read word processing files from his old (5 1/4") diskettes. After trouble-shooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer had labelled the diskettes, then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels.
4. Another AST customer was asked to send a copy of her defective diskettes. A few days later a letter arrived from the customer along with photocopies of the floppies.
5. A Dell technician advised his customer to put his troubled floppy back in the drive and close the door. The customer asked the tech to hold on, and was heard putting the phone down, getting up and crossing the room to close the door to his room.
6. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of trouble-shooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "send" key.
7. Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap & water & soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
8. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.
9. A confused caller to IBM was having troubles printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer".  The user had even tried turning the computer screen to face the printer - but his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
10.  An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell  Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse.
11. Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand-new computer wouldn't work.  She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked "What power switch?"
12.  True story from a Novell NetWire SysOp:
Caller:  "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
Tech:    "Yes, it is. How may  I help you?"
Caller:  "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period.  How do I go about getting that fixed?"
Tech:    "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
Caller:  "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
Tech:    "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am.  Did you receive this as part of a promotion, at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
Caller:  "It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a promotion. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point, the Tech Rep had to mute the caller, because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder, and snapped it off in the drive.
13. Another IBM customer had troubles installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and I had some problems with the disk. When it said to put in the third disk - I couldn't even fit it in..."  The user hadn't realised that "Insert Disk 2" meant to remove Disk 1 first.
14. In a similar incident, a customer had followed the instructions for installing software. The instructions said to remove the disk from it's cover and insert it into the drive. The user had physically removed the casing of the disk and wondered  why there were problems.