Story of my life

I used to be a bad ass like you, but then I took a USB stick to the knee

I try to remove it safely, but shit hits the fan when "..Some Application is using it ..." Comes up. I suppress the urges to pull it out...and start closing the possible applications using it.. closed 1st app..remove safely..doesn't works, close 2nd app... remove safely..doesn't work nothing works...more I do that, more I fall to despair. shit starts hitting the fan seriously...about to break my laptop when I notice I have opened some folder of the pen drive in command prompt..fking cmd. I close it.. laptop is safe for another day..

Later I learn to play it cool by using process explorer.. and killing the sonuvabitch process preventing me to eject..hackerman is born...

Don't do it on Mac

@omar-lotfi @erikdreyer11 helps you make sure the usb does not get corrupted

Damn it lazy! The sysadmin is going to have my ass for this!

Usually no problem for flash drives. However, for external hdd's I believe doing this might actually damage the platters (in some, probably rare, cases).

Yay, who doesn't love filesystem corruption!

@d4ng3r0u5 EVERYBODY!