[ale] Exploding CD?!?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:01:07AM -0800, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I was sitting at home playing a video game (Red Alert 2), 
> when all of a sudden the CDROM that was spinning in my 
> CDROM player EXPLODED.  I know this may be hard to believe, 
> but I have the ~10,000 pieces to prove it, not to mention
> the minor scars from fying shards.  Has anyone else ever 
> experienced this?

	Not personally, but I've heard of it.  In particular, if someone
labels their CD's and doesn't use the right labels or gets the labels
off center.  Figure that CD in a 40+ speed drive is spinning god awful fast.

> -Jim P.
> 
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