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by tinus_hn 1601 days ago
How is it a harmless prank if at the end the ‘prankster’ walks away smugly and the salesperson is left with a broken demo?

It’s only harmless if the prankster turns around and fixes the demo.

I remember some years ago there were people going around trade shows with universal remote controls turning off the screens. As far as I remember most posters thought that wasn’t a very nice thing to do. And that really is almost completely harmless.

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Because nothing got broken.

Turning off screens with universal remote controls... hm... imagine what you could do with one of those 3 Watt IR guns they use in laser arenas and a highrise building. During the worldcup soccer... Never mind.