In a really goofy case the Danish Police made such a fool out of themselves. While investigating a stolen credit card case, they wanted to confiscate the author's computer. When the author's roommate agreed to also let the police look at her first generation iMac, they were dumbfounded. They thought the iMac was just the screen and they wanted to know where the actual computer was. Hit the jump to sample the hilarious conversation between the police and the roommate.

'We have your roommate's permission to confiscate her computer,' the Ichabod Crane one said.

'Whatever,' I said. They had already assured me that we would get our laptops back that afternoon, so I figured the damage had already been done. Ichabod started rooting around under her desk.

'Where's the computer?' he said.

'On the desk. That's the computer,' I said.

'No, the computer.'

'That's the computer, dude.'

'That's the screen.' He had lapsed into the voice you use when you explain to your 6-year-old cousin how the toaster works. 'I mean the compuuuuuter. Understand?'

'Dude. That's the whole computer. Right there. The blue object the size of an armadillo.'

'No. Where the daaaaata goes. The computer part.'

'That is the computer. For Hell!' Danish swear words aren't as satisfying.

'So that's the entire computer, right there?'

II was standing there with a look on my face like I was watching a dog walk on its hind legs.

'New technology, huh?' he said.

I blew the dust off the keyboard and handed it to him. 'Do you mind if I check your badge again?'

The police were also very confused about how a neighbor could log onto their open, wireless network. "The internet doesn't work that way," was the officer's response.