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Is this the world's dirtiest PC?

Reader snap reveals Quatermass-style horror

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 6th November 2009 11:02 GMT

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We're obliged to reader Danny Lee for forwarding evidence of what appears to be a Quatermass-style lifeform, which has attached itself to a PC and pretty well explains why the thing had ceased to function:

The world's dirtiest PC, with vents completely blocked by dust

Chilling stuff indeed. Anyone out there who has experienced The Invasion of the Ventblockers is urged not to approach the creature without first firing up a flamethrower, and to forward photographic proof to me right here. Be vigilant. ®

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