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I’m sure I used to have a cable for that somewhere

Posted at 5:15pm on Thursday, January 18th, 2007

A Guildford man has been honoured in the People’s Courage Awards for 2006 for showing ‘outstanding bravery and strength of character’ in throwing out a number of old computer cables, even though he could not remember where they came from and could not be certain that one of them might not come in handy again at some point in the future.

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