I’m sitting in a burger place in Cherry Hill, NJ. When I walked in, the girl at the counter told me that they can only do cash right now because their credit cards system is down. Their entire register would be inoperable if someone hadn’t discovered that they could disconnect the CAT5 to send it into an offline processing mode where it will just queue transactions until later.

The reason is awesome. Apparently, the company that runs their registers is down because their antivirus installed either new definitions or an application update that is preventing something from working, I’m guessing a false positive. They’ve been down since last night. Even better, this took down everyone using these registers, which is apparently a ton of other area businesses. Not sure if it’s national or not but either way, it is hilarious. I hate the antivirus development industry.