Techie Expensed a Bag of Oranges and Then Juiced Up a Stupid Security Incident
The Register, Monday, June 1st, 2026
A contractor threw expensed oranges from a window, baffling a van driver while guards hunted the culprit in vain.
Kirk, a technician installing equipment at a landmark government building, recounts witnessing a coworker's prank involving a bag of organic oranges that were expensed to the client.
The colleague lobbed fruit from an upper window onto a van below, amusing himself as the bewildered driver repeatedly searched for the source. Security personnel from an adjacent building observed the chaos and tried to track the oranges' origin by checking multiple floors but never identified the perpetrator. Both employees kept their jobs despite the incident.
The story, from The Register's reader-submitted column, serves as a lighthearted cautionary tale about workplace misbehavior on government contracts.