Knowing that youve just been owned by the comment above… PRICELESS

“I cleared tray 3 four f*cking times!!!”

Might look into that legal name change thing now.

Such a funny picture I have come across, rodents like mice and rats love small dark places such as printerwells and my rat has gotten into the same predicament:

http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n446/starspangledwarrior/Kwong-Jostuckintheprinter.jpg

These are the real deal and were posted on another site by a member of the site (using an alias) who got the pictures from an e-mail which was sent to staff at her place of employment. The link to the original thread is below:

http://www.debtorboards.com/index.php/topic,424.0.html

The backstory: A printer was being serviced by the IT staff. The mouse was found caught in the cartridge; it was freed by IT staff and scampered, apparently unharmed, off to parts unknown.

These pictures were taken to document the “find” and prove WHY the cartridge did not survive to make it to the recycler (and had to be replaced prematurely).

The offices (for a State of Connecticut governmental agency) are in an old building, which often suffers from mouse infestations so the fact a mouse got in to the building and even the printer is no surprise. The fact it got into the printer cartridge and actually survived its “curiosity got the cat…eh…rodent” event is.

Nobody knows how it managed to get in there…it just did. However, I do know something about rodents: Mice can get into very tiny spaces (even a RAT can get through an opening the size of an American quarter dollar coin). I suppose the mouse thought the cartridge was a “den” and went inside to hide and/or investigate but was unable to get out, possibly because of the way those rollers likely work; I suppose they operate well in only one direction and the direction corresponding to “out”, for that mouse, apparently was not it.

The mouse probably had a few seconds of pain before it bought the farm — maybe a rib pierced its heart or its neck was broken. All in all it was likely considered a gallant death by mouse standards — the thing died on an adventure, boldly going where few mice had gone before.

So while we should lament that mouse’s almost certain death, it died in grand fashion… and at least it didn’t endure the long-term pain of starving to death.