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Santa Clara University in California has discovered a weapon of mass destruction: Pink iPod Minis. A tiny pink ipod wreaked havoc on at the Santa Clara University College of Arts and Sciences building after a student accidentally flushed it. Here’s the story:

It got stuck in a way that maintenance crews could not get it out. They told NBC11 News they first tried to break the iPod into pieces, but that failed. One maintenance worker called the device "indestructible". An independent contractor was called in to deal with the problem. He was able to get the iPod to move 20 feet, but then it became stuck again underneath the office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. In order to get the iPod out from under that building, crews simultaneously flushed as many toilets as they could and they turned on every sink. That caused a water surge which pushed the iPod into a larger more accessible pipe. Next, a water company was hired to blast water into the pipe in yet another attempt to get the iPod out of the pipe. That effort worked, but at the same time, the blast of water along with a build-up of air caused geysers to burst from the second floor toilets. Crews were finally able to retrieve the iPod from a nearby sewage disposal point outside of the building by using a piece of rebar. The student who originally dropped the iPod in the toilet has since come forward. She will not be punished or fined. It cost the university $1,000 a week to fix this problem. It took months.

The University could’ve avoided this whole mess had they not been too cheap to install these:
[source and source --Thanks Dan!]