I was once the 2nd technician to take a look at a computer for which we couldn't figure out what the problem was. I needed to try out a new CPU and the web developer was taking a long lunch so we decided to quickly take the CPU from his machine and try it on the MB of the inexplicably broken computer.
Well, I was trying to remove the heat sync but it was jammed in there pretty good. Suddenly it popped out... along with the CPU still glued to it. Just as I was holding it up thinking "Oh Crap!" my boss walked in, saw it and automatically realized what I did and shrieked... I thought there was a hawk in the building or something. Somehow the CPU came out but the pins didn't bend. Not a single pin. Fluke!
Fast forward a couple of years, and a couple of guys were trying to remove the CPU from a PC for which they were going to be replacing the MB. Well, the one guy couldn't figure out how to remove the heat sync so I told him to startup the computer for about 30 seconds to heat up the CPU and immediately after turning it off, remove the heat sync, and told him my story of what I did and then went for lunch. He decided to wait until I got back from lunch. The other guy was impatient and just yanked the heat sync out... CPU and all. Same thing happened to him as did to me, and fortunately he didn't bend the pins on the CPU either.
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