"Computers didn't crash in Regina as 1999 gave way to 2000, but at Knox-Metropolitan United they fell - literally, from seven stories up.
"In a performance-art piece conceived by Knox Metropolitan bell-ringer Wayne Tunison, six out-of-date (read:Y2K Non-compliant) computers were tossed from the church roof as bells at the church and elsewhere in Regina rang a mix of mourning and celebration.
"Tunison, a computer engineer by day, says the idea was to symbolize the 'death and birth' that occurred simultaneously as the century rolled over. Tossing computers off the church roof was a way of showing 'symbols of disaster leaving our lives'.