A legend popular in the 1990s concerned a cleaning lady who killed hospital patients by unplugging their life support machines in order to use a vacuum cleaner or floor polisher. See Arthur Goldstuck, The Aardvark and the Caravan, 113-28.
A somewhat similar scenario appeared decades earlier in “Robot on the Rampage!” (Journey into Mystery #51, February 1959). That comic book story described a future in which robots, led by the Supreme Calculator, have taken over the world. A janitor inadvertently frees mankind from enslavement when he unplugs the Supreme Calculator’s cable – its life support, in effect – in order to clean the floor.
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