When Scientist play jokes …
This one’s about crop growing and gardening, no kidding!
However, the location is somewhat, well, strange…
Anyway – enjoy the comical incident when Erik Fransén, a Swedish researcher, went away on a Neuroscience conference in the USA for two weeks and noticed on his return that his computer keyboard had come to life.
You can read about the whole affair on the website of Fransén’s colleague Johannes Hjorth:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~hjorth/krasse/english.html
Really a bad joke, isn’t it? If I had been in the place of unfortunate Fransén, I’d have been scared witless and immediately would have tested my hard drive for further green infestations.
The Swede’s joke has spawned imitators. Here is one eternized on Youtube. Here is another.
By the way, gardening already appears to be a topic for jokers. When investigating for the “growing cress on a keyboard” story, I stumbled upon this nice gardening clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5F04ItE3Oo&feature=user
Well, one has to have a sense of humour at Canadian colleges when Paul Telner is around!
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