The following is an attempt to clarify the circumstances of a production incident that happened more than 10 years ago; it is also a lesson to all of us to decouple our production servers from boilers in distant Balkan countries.
'Who could refuse that?' Turns out, almost no one - especially when faced with puppy eyes, heartfelt asks, or a desperate Pikachu. Refusing is hard, and it costs more than we admit.