Readers weigh in on why taking your trousers off to lasso a help line 10 feet away is never a good idea — even if you can’t let go of that power button on a critical server. Suggestions involved coins, sticky tape, shoelaces and an unlikely strategy that even the contributor admitted, “I chanced it, and it worked. It didn’t power off. Something like that isn’t in the tech manuals, and it doesn’t work everywhere.”The comments come in reaction to last week’s Off the Record, in which a young IT professional removed his pants and used them to try and reach that helpline because, had he taken his finger off of a critical server power button, he thought he’d be history. Have your own wacky tales of IT shenanigans? Submit them — we don’t publish names, so your boss won’t ever know you talked. Send to offtherecord@infoworld.com. Careers