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I once had something vaguely similar happen while registering a car, though obviously with much less drastic consequences. The registration management software was running on a PC with a touchscreen. As my registration was nearly complete, a fly landed exactly on the close button of the application window. All that happened in my case was the attendant had to repeat the application process.

Brazil is my favorite movie of all time because it was so prescient. It seemed exaggerated and over the top in its day, but nowadays it seems to me that everything in the film has actually come to pass. Alas.

> everything in the film has actually come to pass

everything but what the world so desperately needs: vigilante guerilla airco repairmen.

Sometimes fiction can only be topped by ... the reality.