That "PING!" you hear from one of those portable Xenon Strobe lights
As long as it's not the 'ping' you get when you remove a screw too many when disassembling something and thousands of tiny springs and things fly to all points of the room, narrowly missing your eyes in the process
I remember this happening at work once. I'd somehow managed to get a sheet of paper well and truly jammed in my printer, and despite all efforts I couldn't get it out, so I called the IT department. Three days later (that's quite fast for them..!) this guy and his mate turn up. They spend a good hour trying everything I had, to no effect, then one of them said to his mate, "Go and get the toolbox, Steve"..!
Well you know what's coming, don't you... As screw after screw came out, there was a loud 'PING' and said springs and cogs went everywhere. You have never seen anyone look so sheepish
I said to him, "You
ARE going to buy me a new printer, aren't you..?!"
"Ummmm...."
"And it
IS going to come out of your budget and not mine, isn't it..?!"
"Ummmm...."
The next day he knocked on the office door with a brand new printer, and it was the next model up from the one I had