No One Suspects the Shredder
There I was, minding my own business and eating lunch at my desk. I was talking to the other programmer when we were interrupted by a loud "boom" and some low level screaming / eeking. The CFO was just shredding some stuff in our HR person's office. I'm not sure why, but the shredder is located in her office. Anyway, that boom was apparently the bin flying out of the shredder somewhat explosively. The eeking was the CFO's reaction to the flames shooting out of the top of the shredder (which burnt the hair off of one of his arms).
The office is now filled with the smell of burnt hair and plastic. The plug for the shredder also shot out of the wall during all of this. As nearly as we can piece together, the shredder may have been jammed and the CFO was reaching to turn it off when it exploded. Our best guess is maybe the motor fried and ignited just the right mixture of paper dust and oxygen. The CFO is fine, though somewhat rattled.
Here's some of the aftermath:
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