“California Water Service Co. crews are cleaning up what’s left of a major water leak that left more than a foot of water lining the floor of an Apple Computer Inc. building in Cupertino early Wednesday morning,” CBS5.com reports.
“At one point more than 100 gallons of water per minute were flooding into the building from a leak under the first floor, a Santa Clara County Fire Department dispatcher said,” CBS5.com reports.
CBS5.com reports, “The leak was first reported at 12:55am… California Water Service Co. crews shut off water to the building at approximately 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and are working to clean up damaged areas of the building, the dispatcher said.”
Full article here.
Unfortunately for the rumor mill, that’s the only real leak at Apple right now. (Hopefully, there were no Mac Pros sitting on the floor or Xserves mounted low in racks in that building.)
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Sweet…collect insurance money…do some kick ass remodeling.
hopefuly the cleanup crew got some good shots of unreleased products laying around!!
This is one news story that doesn’t hold any water.
major water leak
wish there was a major rumor verification leak
mdn = major
…damages to blueprints for iphone beyond repair…
I’d bet it’s Ballmer sweating on the roof, trying to listen in…
Perhaps we’ll see a flood of refurbs soon.
No, Ballmer doesn’t do work like that. He has employees to do it for him, like Zune Tang.
MDN Magic Word: “mother”
addendum: Steve Ballmer was sighted carrying a monkeyboy wrench
Hey, wonder if they are bobbin’ for Apples?
Industrial Espionage! This has Microsoft written all over it!
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Obviously an attack by iriver. How could they resist the urge?
“Always be wary of the Software Engineer who carries a screwdriver.”
— Robert Paul
Someone probably found a brown Zune in the trash, thought it was a turd and tried to flush it to keep it from stinking up the place.
It would have been nice if they had mentioned which building was flooded.
Another classic take by MDN.
Damn TowerTone
you beat me to it
I remember this also occurred 12 years ago. The basement which held several critical computer banks was flooding, and the idiot security kept us from going down there and saving equipment and data. I hope they improved the emergency response plans for this occasion!
…..iPhones delayed….
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It would of been much better for MDN’s office get flooded out because the only useful feature to this site is links to other sites.
“MDN’s take:” – what a freakin joke. Wake up people, this site is raking in the $ because of advertising.
Support the sites that gather information, no link to it!
Agree that it sounds like industrial espionage.
Apple security better check out each member of the California Water Service Co. crews. At least one of them is looking around to find out what Apple has up its sleeve.
This story is all wet. With such a flood of bad reporting as we’ve seen lately, someone’s sure to get soaked.
To the lone voice who can’t see that MDN brings infinite value to Apple, Mac, and iPod news junkies:
You’re the joke.
MDN offers much, much more than links.
Hopefully there wasn’t a basement in that building.
MDN SUCKS dribbled, “It would of been . . .”
Nice grammar, mouth breather. Are you implying that “would” hails from the land of been? You should consider loosening your chin strap before chatting with adults.
I echo Sum Jung Gai. It would be nice to know which building was flooded. We could then come to some conclusion as to whether it was just an office building or a lab building.
–mAc