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I work as a work-study student at my university as a video-productions and broadcast operator, so essentially I build recruitment videos and web-cast sports games. During one of our most recent Lacrosse games, I had just finished setting up all of the several thousand dollar equipment and was ready to begin broadcast in about two minutes when there was a sudden power failure. I was lucky that none of the equipment was damaged! I was not so lucky however in finding the source of the outage. My first thought was that the campus had lost power, but after getting the campus patrol involved, we discovered that it was only the sports field that was dark. Second thought was that we had tripped a breaker, so we had the maintenance guys come over and try to find the breaker box and reset us. 45 minutes later, they come to us saying that they can't find the box that's connected to the field. Just then, I had the brilliant idea to check the power outlet. We had in fact overdrawn the outlet, and could be reset easily with the push of a button. (and we almost called an electrician for this!) I missed broadcasting half of the game, and had two angry bosses on my @ss after that one... oops?

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