Dangerous Geeks

Milton loved a challenge. He marveled that the old Atari 2600, with only 128 bytes of RAM, survived for 14 years on the market and through creative programming could ultimately handle games with code 256 times as big as its memory. Milton also had too much time on his hands and was captain of his local Star Trek coven.

So he took his vintage 1981 Atari 800 personal computer with 48K RAM, soldered a wireless transmitter into the motherboard, plugged a wireless receiver into the USB port of the HD radio set in his 2005 Ferrari Enzo and created a BASIC program that allowed him to remotely control his car like a giant R/C toy.

Unfortunately, like most drivers of a Ferrari Enzo, Milton crashed it and was killed.

Here's how it happened: the joystick he used to drive the car broke off its controller base, the red fire button that controlled acceleration got stuck in the down position, and the brittle CPU in the old Atari finally melted from the added juice brought in by the wireless transmitter, causing the Enzo to run backwards down his street, through his living room window and over his body as it blared out an Atari voice-synthesized recording of the Borg's "resistance is futile" salutation from its HD radio speakers.