eBAY Crashes Yet Again Sunday
Clueless Housewife Picked Up Phone While Connected To eBAY.
She feels really, really bad about it.
She should.
Sunday, after suffering another crippling downtime of it's services, eBAY network technicians were able to track the cause of the outtage to it's source: A brainless, halfwit housewife in Muncie, Indiana, who abruptly terminated her modem connection to make a phone call.
"I just feel terrible, terrible." said a shaken Regina Morton, trying to apologize for her devastating blunder, which disrupted all auction services for nearly 2 hours. "I logged onto eBAY to get some Christmas shopping done early. I found some Precious Moments figurines that I wanted to get for Melinda, my daughter's husband's sister, but I couldn't remember if she had 15" Katie Lynn doll or not. I left the computer to call my daughter, and picked up the phone without turning off the computer.
A 15" Katie Lynn Doll search led to 1.6 million in lost revenue. |
What happened next, say EBAY technicians, was pure chaos in their server room. "When she attempted to dial out while still connected to our server, she sent a naked analog tone of 13+ hrz straight into our servers, which were frantically cycling through IP's, trying to release and renew at the same time. I could hear her voice squawking through the server room, going 'Hello? Hello?' That's when the smoke started."
Regina insists that she had no idea that she'd cause so much trouble. "My daughter's husband bought that thing (computer) for me last year, and I thought I had the hang of it, but I guess not. I picked up that phone and just heard the most awfulest screeching noise. I thought kids were playing a prank on me."
Regina has promised to pay for any damage she might of caused to any computers equipment, though EBAY says that won't be necessary. "Our hardware is insured. All we ask is that she repay for the lost revenue in downtime during those two hours."
Mrs. Morton has agreed that "idea sounds fair enough.", though there's no word if she's aware that downtime is posted as a debit at $850,500 an hour.
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