I don't think tech support is going to be able to help this.

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#1  Edited By Hailinel

So I was just sitting here, browsing Giant Bomb, when a large flying insect on its last legs (or wings, in this case) buzzing around the room crashed into the wall and fell right into the paper feed of my printer as it keeled over.  There weren't many pages left in there, so the little bugger managed to get pretty pretty deep where I can't reach him.
 
I'm really not sure what to make of this.  I printed out a page as a test and it worked, but I don't know if it'll cause problems in the future and I have no way of opening up the printer to get at its new tenant.
 
Not that I expect anyone here to be able to offer help, but damn.  What are the odds?

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#2  Edited By The_jewish_lord

what the hell? a bug?
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#3  Edited By natetodamax

Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it.

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#4  Edited By The_jewish_lord
@natetodamax said:
"Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "

*crickets*
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#5  Edited By Hailinel
@natetodamax said:
" Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
I know.  It strikes me as ironic.
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#6  Edited By The_jewish_lord
@Hailinel said:
" @natetodamax said:
" Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
I know.  It strikes me as ironic. "

why?
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#7  Edited By shaun832

Wow. That's... umm... different...

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#8  Edited By teptom

 @Hailinel said:

" @natetodamax said:
" Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
I know.  It strikes me as ironic. "

Most ironic thing I've heard all week.
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#9  Edited By The_jewish_lord
@shaun832 said:
"Wow. That's... umm... different... "

just wat i thought.
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#10  Edited By Hailinel
@The_jewish_lord said:
" @Hailinel said:
" @natetodamax said:
" Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
I know.  It strikes me as ironic. "
why? "
Because my printer now has a literal bug in it, as opposed to a glitch in its hardware or programming.
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#11  Edited By The_jewish_lord
@Hailinel:
i see well call tech support
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#12  Edited By iam3green

wow i would say it will work just fine. have u tried opening it up where u put in the cartridges? maybe the bug went in there. funny stuff that it happened to fly in the printer.

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#13  Edited By Hailinel
@iam3green said:
" wow i would say it will work just fine. have u tried opening it up where u put in the cartridges? maybe the bug went in there. funny stuff that it happened to fly in the printer. "
No, that doesn't work.  The cartridge hatch is separated from the paper feed, which is where the bug fell.
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#14  Edited By oldschool

It may just be in a spot that doesn't cause problems?  Hell, how do we know spiders haven't taken up residence in all our tech stuff?  I bet it has.

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#15  Edited By Al3xand3r

Yuck. What the hell were you thinking printing a page? Who knows what a mess that bug has been made into now with the moving parts of the printer? I don't wanna be the guy who opens it up to see what's wrong... Hopefully the bug wasn't squished :S

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#16  Edited By allah
@Al3xand3r said:
"Yuck. What the hell were you thinking printing a page? Who knows what a mess that bug has been made into now? I don't wanna be the guy who opens it up to see what's wrong... "

yeh it could be quite a fuckin mess. more like a piece of fucking shit printer wouldnt ya say?
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#17  Edited By torus
@oldschool:  
 
Seriously, fuck you. Now I won't sleep tonight.
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#18  Edited By Video_Game_King
@The_jewish_lord said:
" @natetodamax said:
"Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
*crickets* "
Sucks that you have a cricket colony in your printer :P.
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#19  Edited By eroticfishcake

The irony. This must be the first case were life imitates language. It's quite poetic in a tragic way.

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#20  Edited By oldschool
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" @oldschool:   Seriously, fuck you. Now I won't sleep tonight. "
Sorry  ^-^ 
 
I have been using my laptop when a a small spider ran across it.  Before I could flick it of, it went inside the computer.  It isn't like a tarantula can take up residence!  Unless your computer is from 1982.
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#21  Edited By Jeust
@eroticfishcake said:

" The irony. This must be the first case were life imitates language. It's quite poetic in a tragic way. "

The term bugs comes really from that akward situation. In the early computers, as they took over a large division, many bugs would get attracted to the heat emanated from it, and would take up residence on the computer, and cause it to malfunction.
   
Bug Origins
 
Cheers and good luck
 
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#22  Edited By eroticfishcake
@Jeust: The Mark II in Harvard if I'm right. It was a moth that got caught in a tube. Also the term debugging existed since the 1800's. One newspaper described how Edison spent an entire night looking for a bug in one of his machines (a gramphone or something like that). I only happend to know this since I studied Edison and Tesla for my history project.
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#23  Edited By Jeust
@eroticfishcake: Nice :)
 
I know because it's a common joke in the computer world, and a way to get interested about the painstaking work of debugging something. 
 
But i didn't knew about Eddison, thanks! :)
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#24  Edited By Bruce
@Hailinel: 
 
Ew, that is nasty. Perhaps take it to a local computer shop and have them dissemble it, letting them deal with the insect themselves. Then when you pick it up, you'll be treated to "THERE WAS A FUCKING BUG IN THERE!" and you can just shake your head in disbelief.
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#25  Edited By Akeldama
@natetodamax said:
" Just say your printer malfunctioned because of a bug. Hehe, get it. "
i lold. but i feel dirty about it.