Fukobukuro 19: Fools Rush In

  • This is a Fukobukuro, an unlucky bag
  • That means it’s filled with worthless junk you wouldn’t buy knowingly, and you shouldn’t buy it sight unseen either
  • We used to sell the same sort of thing as a “Fukubukuro”, or “lucky bag”, but the contents couldn’t live up to the name
  • Before that, we used to sell the same sort of thing as a “BoC” (Bag of Crap) at Woot, but someone else runs that business now
  • Long before that, you got your Japanese custom of Fukubukuro dating to the Meiji period, but all we really know about that is what’s on Wikipedia
  • ONLY BUY ONE. Multiple orders will be canceled.
  • (Or buy zero, if you’re smart.)
  • Model: APRFU39
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Mediocrebot's Prankstravaganza / Massacre

I could have run any number of situational analysis programs for hours and never hit upon “impalement on toilet shards” as a potential cause of death for poor Frank, but in the end that’s exactly what happened. The explosion from the bang snaps weakened the porcelain, and the force of his bulk falling onto it caused the toilet to break. The fragments carved through his body like blades, and Frank was ended.

I took a moment of silence in remembrance, then congratulated Theresa on a truly epic prank.

The next room presented a challenge. In the center, a rudimentary Faraday cage had been constructed surrounding a resonant transformer discharging an extremely high voltage electric field. My circuits were safe outside the cage, which kept in the brush discharges of the transformer, but to enter would almost certainly fry my hard drive.

Inside the Faraday cage, of course, was another key.

At this point I wondered if Theresa was less interested in pranks and more interested in just placing keys in difficult to reach places. After weighing the possibility of succeeding without permanently destroying my memory, I opted to just pop the padlock off the door instead.

Theresa was quite upset.

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