Talk about wish-fulfillment.

An engineer with San Francisco's Department of Technology has locked the city out of its own computer system.

Not very smart, though. Apparently he did this as a form of job insurance. It didn't occur to him that the city would simply throw him in jail.

On the other hand, the city is expressing fears that seem just a little over the top. They may have seen one Keanu Reeves movie too many. According to San Francisco Gate:

Officials also said they feared that although Childs is in jail, he may have enabled a third party to access the system by telephone or other electronic device and order the destruction of hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents.

Bwa-hahahaha.

One commenter noted "officials conjuring up these fairy tales about him destroying all their data with remote devices... W-W-WHAT?? Wow. DEEP END."

Deep end indeed. Still, you have to hope the city has adequate storage and back-up plans.