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Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator! (www.theregister.com)

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Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Nigel" who shared a story from 2004 when the office he worked in found itself in the path of Hurricane Ivan, the superstorm that rampaged its way across the Caribbean and the USA for almost three weeks.

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[–] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

...so the story is that an American police officer almost murdered him for no reason

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The cop was joking. Also, Ivan was 21-years ago, things were a little different in America. I was there.