If I had a nickel for every time people pushed buttons they didn't know what they did back in college. An entire class full of Dee Dee's. ;)
I wanted to mount a "self destruct" switch to one of the consoles in the tv studio to see who would dare to push it, but couldn't find such a thing at the time.
Seriously though, if the slaver weapon had come with an instruction manual, the episode would have been really short.