Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Rage against the sausage machine. In a sausage land far, far way, lived a sausage people beset with financial problems. Their bankers, while preoccupied with determining the size of their own annual bonus, had neglected to keep an eye on the financial markets. The result was a financial catastrophe of global proportions. Ninety nine percent of all sausages suffered in some way, many undergoing great hardship. On the ‘up’ side, the bankers were able to determine that their bonus should be at least double that of the year before.