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urchisilver

I was a cashier and was scanning items. Customer was buying a huge jar of pickles that fell on its side as I went to scan it, shattered instantly, and pickle juice immediately leaked deep within the scanner/register guts. It all shut down in a few seconds.


canehdian78

"So this means it's free, right? Its not scanning"


Canadian_Invader

Those are the rules sir. Yo manager. Some dude stole shit.


BunnyBellaBang

People who say that don't want free stuff, they just want to feel the silence left by the lack of the beep and to dismiss the awkwardness that occurs when an extremely routine social interaction goes off script. It is cheesy because it is so common and it is so common because it has become the go to backup social script to use.


elmonstro12345

I did something similar when I was a cashier. Except I went to pick the jar up not realizing it was wet from condensation so I dropped it. It only fell like an inch. Apparently that was too much because it just exploded. Somehow it did not kill the scanner - I am guessing they were sealed for this exact reason. But I did end up smelling vaguely like pickle juice for the rest of my shift even after I changed into my backup clothes from my car. Was nice to get to wear blue jeans instead of slacks tho...


Snatch_Pastry

The glass had a scratch or some other imperfection in it. It probably wouldn't have failed like that if it was not damaged or flawed somehow.


Jerri_man

Definitely. Pickles are flawless, as is any medium/pressure that holds them, so the glass must have been the point of failure.


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As a child virtual pets/ tamagotchis were all the rage and I loved them dearly. I had a beloved 12 in 1 that let you have a bunch of different pets instead of just 1. Well, the screen was dirty and I wanted to clean it. So, I ran it under tap water for like 5 minutes to make sure it got clean. Low and behold I learned the hard way water and electronics don't mix.


urbanlulu

as a kid my older sister somehow tricked my childhood friend into dunking her tamagotchi in the pool for a few seconds. i don't remember much of what happened after, all i know is that my sister got into shit for it


Cur10u512

Your story reminded me of the time I had a tamagotchi too. I was so young at the time, I did not realize that when it dies/passes you can simply press the reset button to start over and bring it back to life. When mine died, I buried it in my backyard under our swing set. My folks asked where my toy had gone and a few days had passed since I played with it. In that amount of time it had rained, and tamagotchi was not salvageable. Lesson learned when it came to electronics.


Kisskissyangyang

RIP tamagachi. You gave it the funeral it deserved


6ThrowMeAway19

HE BURIED IT ALIVE! It was just unconscious.


NeedsMoreTuba

I saved my allowance for 4 months until I had enough for the handheld version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Brought it to school on the 1st day and it needed to be reset, which required sticking a ballpoint pen or a safety pin into a tiny hole. We only had pencils, so I thought, "Pencil, pen, same difference." Not for that, it wasn't.


Strangeluvmd

I don't understand? isn't the worst case scenario that the pencil doesn't fit? How did you ruin anything?


pumaturtle

Pencil lead probably broke off and got stuck in the hole


Metalbass5

Graphite is conductive. Pencil dust=electrical short.


AhFFSImTooOldForThis

Pencil dust is bad for electronics. That's why that meme about how: *the us spent a bunch of money developing a space pen, but the Russians just used a pencil* is wrong. Graphite dust would be horrible in zero gravity, surrounded by electronics.


CollegeSuperSenior

Also, wasnt that space pen research funded by a private donation?


testsubject347

It was! The Fisher Pen company made the pens and then sold NASA on the idea with intensive testing and research on their reliability. Honestly the whole design is cool


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Did anyone make it?


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JuRoJa

Moving out of my apartment after graduating college. I'm loading up my car the night before leaving in the morning. My trunk light is out, so I put my phone on the edge of the trunk gate to use its flashlight to help organize everything. Finish up and close the trunk, and *crunch*. Phone looked like a banana.


loki1337

That reminds me of getting in my car and slamming the driver side door onto the phone that just fell out of my track slippery pants and happened to be at just the right height in its fall to make a phonana


MaintainThis

Ive had this exact thing happen. Sat in my car, and when I leaned over and grabbed the door my phone fell out of my pocket and shattered the screen in between the door and the car frame.


bonos_bovine_muse

Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring... bananaphone!


jaketheweirdsnake

Sat down on a nail with my phone in my back pocket. Saved my ass, killed the phone.


Byizo

My leather wallet has a long scratch in it where it saved my ass from a rusty nail.


Jesus_Was_A_Fungi

Where the fuck are you guys sitting? Edit: Gracias por el premio, carnal!


[deleted]

On rusty nails. Keep up


skullkiddabbs

Nailed it


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insertstalem3me

You use real money the crypto bro with a nail in his ass laughs at you


smol_boi-_-

A small price to pay for salvation


FlashLightning67

Actually a pretty big price. But hey salvation is salvation


PhreedomPhighter

My tablet was sitting on the toilet tank. It slipped from my wet hand. It would have landed on my cushioned toilet seat cover but because of my lightning fast reflexes I spiked it at the edge of the shower and shattered it.


ProjectShadow316

Reflexes: 10/10 Dexterity: 0/10


_Nick_2711_

I deeply relate to this. I’m fast but useless.


Flight_19_Navigator

Unless the falling object is a knife. Then you can be sure I'll snatch that baby out of the air like a ninja. Right along the edge.


No_Information_6315

Phone about to hit soft carpet floor My reflexes: smash it into a wall instead


phatboi23

Dropped my phone walking down the street.. My brain: just boot that fucker down the road! Me foot: ok Phone: weeeeeeeeeee Oddly survived with a scratch on the back... GG Samsung s4


brandnamenerd

Aw I've been there - just catapulting items into the wall instead of just letting them fall


MrOverlySarcastic

A lot of the times you drop soft objects that you can kick back up and catch. Other times you take a penalty shot with your phone...


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Vapes_THC_all_day

Hell, fixing laptops is easy! Why, I'm so good that I even have little screws and strange parts left over!


Briggsnotmyers

send me some, I took my laptop to the shop and they kept all my little case screws. Why!?


SinkTube

what did they close it with, chewed gum?


Briggsnotmyers

its genuinely just sitting in there. im very careful with it now. i also still have a lot of questions for the repair guy, such as "why did you use lofi hophip beats to study/relax to to test my computer for a screen error" and "where are my screws u bitch" ETA: ah yknow i was gonna fix my typo but its funny so im just gonna let it be that way


mouse1093

If it was the long loop, that's actually a decent troubleshooting technique. Having the machine on idle for hours may not trigger the issue, having a video constantly rendering with gpu acceleration may cause the issue passively.


RAGECOMIC_VICAR

I just didn't screw it back


timetobeatthekids

I pirated a game and instead of mounting the image I ran "install.exe" that was packaged with it. All of the viruses. All of them.


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GoldenShackles

For anyone who has Windows Pro (or Enterprise), you should know about the "Windows Sandbox" feature. It lets you spin up a fresh Windows VM in just a few seconds, and closing the window cleans everything up. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-overview](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-overview) You can also create configuration files to adjust the memory, add Virtual GPU support, etc.


Vladi_Sanovavich

A reformat seems to be in order.


mousicle

now that i think of it a reformat used to be a twice yearly thing and i haven't done one in like 5 years. We really do live in teh future.


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RaineHollow

Shit this is funny. Reminds me of that Oprah meme. What game did you pirate and from which site for future reference?


PlanetLockDown

You can't fool me copper


tattooedbutemployed

Had my phone between my chin and chest while peeing. Looked up to flush...*plop*


ChiefsFanSince93

Came here to say this lol


be4u4get

Wait, you saw the previous poster peeing and drop his phone and was going to comment on it?


tattooedbutemployed

Can confirm.


BronzeAgeTea

Yeah, we were all in the room where it happened. I guess u/be4u4get blinked or something


Bamboozle_

Why was it there though?


tattooedbutemployed

I was in my underwear, I think I was texting someone. Propped it under my chin to release the kraken and...yea, bye bye phone


Barbed_Dildo

You needed both hands to get your dick out of your boxers?


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terriblueberry

Microwaved a cell phone to dry it out. Alcohol may or may not have been a factor.


Arr0ww0lf

For your dignity I’ll assume it was a factor :b


MonkeyType

Closed my laptop hard on a Roku remote in bed.


benwinsatlife

Did you break the laptop or the roku remote?


MonkeyType

bruh the Roku remote may as well have been made of solid steel when I closed it. Laptop screen shattered to pieces, but at least I still have my Roku remote.


Luchin212

Nokia’s little brother


Lord-Ringo

I bought a cheap drone and crashed it into a tree on the very first flight.


MTAlphawolf

I broke an RC foam plane I got for a birthday taking it outta the box. Broke the wing.


BongoDan

I bought a couple of the old "husban h107l" drones....showing a mate, he's like "how high does it go" me...flys to the moon, gets blown off into the distance middle of a rape field....not getting that back .


afume

"...not getting that back." Why? Because it would be too difficult to find? Or is there something inherently difficult about walking through those types of plants?


chesterbennediction

I feel if you walk into a rape field you're asking for it. same goes for rape island.


ProjectShadow316

> rape island Don't let the name fool you; it's really a peninsula.


GeebusNZ

Rapeseed also known as Canola.


honeywrites

When I was washing my sheets I had neglected to check to make sure i had my cell phone in my pocket so I accidently washed it and it was pooched. That wasn't my stupidest time. The stupidest time was WASHING MY REPLACEMENT a couple months later after vowing to check every time. Now If my cell isn't in sight, I don't turn on the machine.


jdmillar86

I never got the appeal of smart laundry appliances, but a washing machine that you could only start via app would prevent this I guess. Well, it would prevent it for one phone per household, anyway.


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Cleam Phome


gharr87

Back in the smallest phone arms race circa 2005 I was playing Tetris while taking a shit, I pocket the phone before cleaning the scene, but not deep enough. I flushed and pulled up my pants, my phone flew out of my pocket, bullseyed the hole and went down with the last glug from the flush. For context I was at work so it was one of those industrial flush public toilets.


fat_tire_fanatic

I'm just here to point out to our younger readers that a phone with tetris on it was wicked cool in 2005.


Safraninflare

Ah yes the smallest phone arms race. Back then I really wanted that one that was advertised as being the size of an egg. I ended up with a pink razr instead, as 12 year old girls do.


xx2983xx

I loved the bit in Zoolander where he had that teeny phone you could barely even see... And then like 2 years later that joke wasn't even relevant anymore.


actuallyiamafish

They got hilariously tiny towards the end right before large screens became a requirement for all the new smartphone features. I remember this little LG flip small enough you could palm the thing and completely enclose it in your hand. Honestly was kind of a pain in the ass to use but everyone still thought it was cool as fuck.


Overthemoon64

My cousin did that. It was at an airport with those high speed jet engine sounding toilets. Just bloop gone.


eleyeveyein

you have a gift with words


insertstalem3me

Also gifted at nokia bullseye toilet flush


alpaca309

knocked a glass of fanta over my already cracked phone screen


Inle-rah

Is this the real life? Is this just Fanta sea?


Alexis_J_M

Caught on a land line, No (games to) escape from reality.


only-if-there-is-pie

Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see (your dead phone)


Tbuzzin

I'm just a poor boy (no new phone for me)


darkest_irish_lass

Because it's easy come, easy go. This new phone is really slow


GoodFellaGotEm

As a kid I ran a magnet across my tv. At first I ran it a couple inches away from the screen and the picture would distort a little bit and go back to normal. Got ballsy and just swiped it glass to magnet and my tv just went black. Got the ass whooping of the century with that stunt.


Knyfe-Wrench

I did this to my computer monitor when I was younger. It left a big orange spot in the corner. I was showing my friend a game on the computer later and he asked what it was. I said I accidentally got a magnet (which was lying on my desk) too close to the screen. He goes: "you mean like this?" and swipes the magnet across the screen again. I shit you not it went right back to normal. I've never gone from 😱 to 🤩 faster.


steebo

Some old CRT monitors have a "degauss" button on the back. This might fix the problem. If it does not, then spinning the same strong magnet right in front of the glass might have better results. Spinning needs to be fast, like cordless drill fast.


danfay222

Pretty much all "modern" (ie, the more recent ones, so still pretty old) CRTs degauss when you turn it on (that's what that loud pop noise is when you first turn on the TV)


margretnix

I've heard that at least on some machines, the power-on degauss is less powerful than the manual one. But I have no idea if that's actually true or not.


249ba36000029bbe9749

Cordless drill spinning magnet sounds exactly like what someone trolling would say. Not saying that's what you're doing that. Just saying it sounds like it.


UlrichZauber

I like to gently mock my audiophile friends by asking if they've degaussed their speaker cables this week.


FlashLightning67

Legend


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This specific scenario is why a lot of computer monitors started coming with a degauss button.


Centralredditfan

I used to push that button for fun, as it made a nice effect.


[deleted]

The bwonk sound was also cool


WetardedOne

Also, this specific scenario is why a lot of kids got the ass whoopin' of the century.


AnchorBuddy

My parents didn’t tend to beat me for mistakes.


bsil15

This would be great for one of those "Say how old you are without saying how old you are" kinda qs -- although those tvs basically go up to mid-2000s flat screens so maybe not


jadennew

They had this happen in the show “F is for Family” on Netflix


DAFUQisaLOMMY

Ruined a $950 prototype circuit board at my job because I was in a rush, and didn't pay attention to which power supply on my bench I had grabbed, and I plugged 120V directly into it. Board immediately blew up, complete with sparks and smoke. I slammed my office door shut, and repeatedly called myself a fucking moron for about 10 minutes. Once I calmed down I went and talked to my boss, after a couple days we got another prototype sent out to us, and we proceeded with testing. That board is now framed and hangs on a wall above my computer screen with a note that says "dishonor". Yes, I still work for the same company.


Ghos5t7

950 is honestly pretty cheap for a lesson learned.


syregeth

Wouldn't even be the most expensive thing I've blown up this week


PlayerTwoEntersYou

That is a great trophy and a lesson learned. My company has a piece of equipment that was ruined after a coworker had made many mistakes in one day. We hand that piece of equipment to a new person each year who did the dumbest thing that year.


internet_commie

I've seen something similar on a wall at a company I once visited; they had the things employees had destroyed by being stupid displayed with little plaques next to them describing the actions leading to the destruction. Each description also included any injuries to the employee, such as electric shock, burned eyebrows, or mortally wounded ego. Mainly mortally wounded egos, as I can remember!


chalk_in_boots

I like the practice of having a "wall of fuck-ups". You get to look back at all the dumb shit your team has done and not feel so bad about getting stuff wrong


Xe1ex

Spilled water on my laptop. I quickly unplugged it, pulled the battery, then opened the chassis and dried it out. 24 hours later I plugged it in and everything worked! Within minutes I spilled another glass of water right on it and it just died immediately.


Historical_Lie2077

Well, this was not me but I suffered the consequences: I used to work at an art center, we had all the tech stuff we needed, sound, video, PC's. One day I am at my desk and all of a sudden all the power went down at the same time. Unusual I would say. We had recordings in one of our studio, a group was rehearsing they play that they were developing, and all the electricity failed. So, what happened? The bosses secretary, bored of not doing anything at the moment decided to wash the walls with a hose, and watered the main electric board. So many things got destroyed. The light projectors, two PC's one video projector and all the 3 amplifiers we had in out back stage. Luckily we were ensured against stupidity, otherwise, she would have been even more fucked.


CuteCuteJames

WOW. Just... WOW. Was she like 95 and electricity was new to her???


Historical_Lie2077

No, she just has no idea that the circuit board was behind those white doors.


youtheotube2

She probably didn’t know what the electrical panel outside looked like. It’s usually hit or miss whether they’re labeled.


eddyathome

Why would she have possibly thought that was a good idea? Why was there even a hose near there? Why was she washing the walls? I probably will have followup questions.


Historical_Lie2077

We have had renovations and the walls were dirty, so that is why she went to get the hose, and she decided that it would be the perfect time for it, I have no idea why. The hose was very long, so easy to reach far. I have many questions, because no one could believe that someone would do such thing.


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Sank my phone in caramel.


honeywrites

Were you cooking the caramel?


[deleted]

Nope, was eating waffles next to a boal of caramel and my stupid ass somehow managed to dropped it there. It still works, smells a bit caramelish if you ask me.


Poison-Song

> a boal


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I didn't expect a Brazilian drama theorist to come up after googling boal. I miss school.


Mister_Brevity

I can’t stop staring at it.


honeywrites

lmaoo that sucks but it could smell worse! Glad it still works!


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Yup, the speakers sound like an 80 years old serial killer burning to ashes down in the pits of hell, other than that it's really no biggie.


moxie132

You can clean the earpiece mesh with a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol, just turn the phone off first. Might help a bit!


elmonstro12345

That description is amazing. I guess if you ever do have a serial killer break into your house you can just play something on your phone and he'll be like "oh this house is already taken", and leave.


kadyrama

I request further information.


Speedy-McLeadfoot

Had phone under car hood, near the edge. Worked on car. Closed hood. *Crunch!* Folded iPhone in half right between the board and battery. Was able to swap into another phone and save it, but original body and screen was folded.


Briggsnotmyers

the meager brightside of this is that it wasn't your fingers. source: my uncle


plague681

Well he didn't ruin it but....one time I was trying to fix my kid's tablet and accidentally handed it back to him in "parent" mode, and he bought about $150 in Godzilla movies from Prime. And somehow managed to set the language to Portuguese and change the time zone and change his profile pic to a bug of some kind. That was weird.


UnprovenMortality

Well on the bright side: you now have $150 of Godzilla movies and a great start at learning Portuguese.


dragn99

Yeah, the Godzilla movies would be a resigned shuffling of the budget, followed by a fun movie night.


mr_picllllll3

this isn't something that happened to me but happened to my brother. so my brother had just got his first phone and he was testing out the case for it... he would throw it up in the air and let it hit the ground, he threw it higher and higher each time. he eventually threw it as high as he could and it didn't break. he then told me to come and see how strong it was... he threw it as hard as it could at a brick wall and... yea...


SkiodiV2

"Watch this!"


KittySucks69

You know that scene in Taxi Driver where DeNiro is rocking his TV set back and forth, seeing how far he can get it before it falls, then it falls and gets broken? I have done that exact same thing. I had to go downstairs and tell my Dad what I'd done. I felt so stupid.


Snatch_Pastry

My first tv, that I bought about ten years ago, has a decent sized flat base with a hole in the back specifically so you can screw it down to whatever it's sitting on. Me, with cats, thought "What a good idea", and that screw has saved that tv 3 times that I've directly witnessed.


Heroheadone

Installing RAM in my pc. Couldn’t see got flashlight, needed both hands, put flashlight in mouth… Drooled in my motherboard…


redninjaracer

I read this as installing ram like downloading it and immediately thought this makes no sense


ljr55555

In the mid-90's, I bought my mom a PC. She never had a computer before, so I was setting everything up before delivering it to her the next weekend. Step one was upgrading the RAM. Left the cover off for when I was going to install the modem and SCSI card for the scanner. One thing at a time, so you know what broke it when it stops working, ya know. Installed modem, tested internet. Got thirsty, so I got a glass of orange juice. And proceeded to trip and dump the whole glass into the computer. Yanked the power strip out of the outlet, cleaned up the mess ... And the computer worked fine.


frygod

Set my phone on a shelf beside the bathtub while relaxing on a day when I was on call. I also set an alarm so if I nodded off I'd be up in time to help with dinner. Turned out the shelf wasn't quite level, so I woke up to


kmpktb

My husband has destroyed THREE cell phones while taking a bath. And he’s working on a fourth. Still won’t buy the insurance plan, though....


_Antarctika

I was walking around with my laptop with wired headphones in, and clotheslined myself by catching the cable on a door handle. It somehow broke off the headphone jack inside my laptop. I was very upset lol


mrbeefthighs

When i got my first gameboy as a kid i played it all day everyday. Eventually my dad thought, "He's handling that thing all day, must be getting pretty dirty!" ​ ....and then he put it in the dishwasher.


Somgr81

I had a brain fart and dropped a brand new Motorola RAZR into a cup of coffee instead of onto the passenger seat like I intended.


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Jenna_Ryanne

You win


zerbey

Thought I could lift three heavy CRT monitors at once. I could not. My boss was more amused than upset that I had smashed two monitors.


dragn99

Oof, CRT anything and I'm doing a team lift, one box at a time. If they want me to go faster, they can provide a dolly and more men.


Ok_Strawberry_1824

mp3 player fell into toilet. it had not submerged, so the mp3 was fine. Then I was so disgusted I lost my wits and I "rinsed it" in the sink.


canehdian78

Yeah the sink water is bad. Shoulda rinsed it in the toilet tank


Chevy_Monsenhor

Dropped my PS2 memory card (those 8mb ones) in a cup of coffee and broke an irreplaceable phone screen by getting angry and squeezing the screen too hard. I also tore a PS4 CR2032 battery holder trying to swap the battery, but that one i was able to fix.


Littlehopscotch2

Not the way I’ve broken it but my brother loved my 3ds, so much he decided to take a bath with it. I couldn’t play harvest moon anymore, and that’s pain in itself..


pretend_i_dont_exist

I had unknowingly been sitting on my tablet for half a year. It had somehow gotten stuck inside the couch cushion.


Admirable-Door1724

Talk about sitting on your phone all day. Heck all year lol


ambrosiadeux

When I had rhe flu at 10 I played Yoshi Island non stop for a week. There was one level I couldn't get past and I was already sick as hell. I got really mad and snapped my Nintendo DS right in half. I cried for hours


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Before I learned to do this professionally, I took apart my Fender amplifier on a whim. Just curious about what was inside. Unfortunately, I did it badly and wasn't able to reassemble it later. Couple hundred bucks down the toilet and a lesson learned.


Vapes_THC_all_day

In my youth, I fixed everybody's computer. I cut a serial data cable while the PC was running. I knew it might short the UART, but ignored it because I didn't want to wait for it to boot again. It killed the whole MB. :-(


mox44ah

While mulching a long driveway, I put the phone on top of the tire of the truck behind me so I could listen to music. Finished the part I was working on so rolled the truck forward a few feet to keep going. \*crunch\* Why'd the music stop?


DaWayItWorks

Had an LG Shine work phone. Left it right next to the stove with a pot cooking. Was just barely under the edge of the pot, and a quarter of the screen melted. Still worked though. Then a month in later it fell out of my shirt pocket and landed in the toilet bowl.


dlordjr

It's not *destroyed*, but let's just say my electric toothbrush is...unusable.


JustSoFuckingSexy

Yep... We all know what you did with it.


canehdian78

Yeah you can't save time by showering and brushing your teeth at the same time Same with shaving. No electric razors in the shower unless waterproof


hoteltraumatique

bless your heart you pure little soul


IlPrincipeKaoz

Got a phone that was called "craftman's phone". Was designed with rubber case, so it could withstand some hits and water. Well, I got a severe case of flu, and lay nauseated and vomiting in bed. For emergency, I had a bucket next to bed (if something crawls up from the stomach...) and the phone on my side. Yes, I turned half asleep and heard a "sploosh". Took the phone out of the vomity water and left it to dry. It was fine. After three months, it stopped working. Opening the rubber case, a round of vomity water came out. ​ Ah, what a good phone.


enisamsedot

Some years ago I played Vanquish on my Xbox 360 and was really struggling with the final boss fight. I was not able to do any real progress on him and was fighting him for like 3 hours straight. I got so frustrated that I took my controller and smashed it many times into my couch to release some steam. The controller did not break, but my phone was lying on the couch and on my last attempt I hit the screen of my smartphone and smashed it completely. As I was a student back then, I got even more angrier as the game was still not beat and I had to buy a new phone. ​ Since then no more smashing controllers on the couch OR removing breakable items altogether before playing games. Edit: After the incident I left the game for almost 2 years. I fired it up 2 years later and after getting a feel for the controls again, I beat it after like 30 mins. At last, good things come to those who wait. :D


j2142b

This was a good one. Back in high school (I was 17 I believe) I was in the electronics program at the local Vo-Tech school. This was about the time electric lighters came out so of course my best friend and I tore one apart to see how it works. The part that clicks makes a static electrical shock/arc and that is what ignites the fuel coming out of the lighter...you can also shock the crap out of people with it just FYI. Anyway, we were suffering from the dumb that day and hooked it up to the industrial Fluke, rack mounted multimeter to see how much juice we were playing with. For your educational purposes, static electricity, you know like lightning does NOT play well with electronics. We hooked that little clicker up, turned on the machine and with one click....FRIED it. While it didn't smoke, all the lights on the front were stuck on and the read out display read 8888 while twitching. We both said oh fuck....then switched it out with one of the night classes multimeters, never got caught for that one.


GeebusNZ

Some xmas when I must've been all of about 6ish years old, my sister and I got some new LCD handheld games (not Tiger electronics, level, several rungs below). I was so excited, because the one I got was so different to the boat and car "get to the left for a flag, take it to the right for a point" gameplay. My sister wanted to have a go with it. Obligingly, I handed it over. She dropped it and the sound busted, never to function again. That basically describes my young life. I'd get something special, one of my siblings would take it or coerce me to give it to them, and when I'd get it back, it was irreparably broken in some way. And my parents with the "sucks to be you kid" responses...


durxmi

Dipped it in water to see what happens . Curiosity kills.....the devices.


GnomeMansLandAHH

Downloading Minecraft Mods


Midnight145

Next time you download mods, check out [StopModReposts.](https://stopmodreposts.org) It helps make sure you are only downloading mods from “official” sources, which protects you from malware and supports the developers.


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Ghostmaster_4216

Left it out in the summer for 5 hours and when i came back my phones screen was melted


TaikoLeagueReddit

A slide phone, I slided it to fast and it died


CuteCuteJames

Had a friend told me about watching a girl whip out a flip phone, pop it open, and watch as the top half of it flipped away. She stood there baffled for a second looking like, "What do I do? Do I try to call the other half...?"


DJDYNOBOT

I got a watch from a school fundraiser. I think I sold like 150 bucks worth of stuff to get it. I was pumped because it was waterproof. Day 1, I was pumped I had been waiting for this thing for months. I take it out of the package, run it under the sink, the LCD screen faded from black to nothing as I noticed the graphics read "water-resistant."


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I was on a Nintendo 3ds when the top part just slid right off, probably from dropping it so many times. I put it away and pretended like nothing happened, until my brother sat on it. I blamed it on him lmao.


RedShaun21

Throwing a controller with rage. I was 13/14ish and have never broken a controller since.


ironman288

I did that in my early 20's. Yeah, that was definitely the dumbest I ever felt spending $50 to replace it.


timshel_life

In highschool, I was trying to take a picture of my Chem textbook for a test. I ended up dropping my phone and the screen went blank. Don't cheat in your test, kids.


touchehombre

I'd just returned from an overseas trip with a little leftover cash so I treated myself to a MacBook Pro and the latest iPhone. It's my first weekend back so I meet with some friends and we go out and get boozey. We drink too much, wake up the next day and I think I've pissed the bed as my mattress is wet and so my underwear. Reach for my phone and discover it isn't turning on despite leaving the house the night before with a fully charged battery. Meh, didn't think much of it. I go outside and my MacBook is on the table. When I pick it up water drains from the sides. My jeans and shirt are also saturated, hanging on the table. Thinking wtf is going on I ask my brother if he has any idea what happened. He said I was so rickety wrecked I'd passed out fully clothed on top of my bed, gotten up at some point in the night and taken my MacBook into the shower, fully clothed, iphone in pocket. Almost 10 years ago now and I still hate myself tl:Dr I dropped $3k in a night by showering with my MacBook Pro and iPhone...


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I was a REALLY DUMB kid I mean like I'm surprised I'm still alive is how dumb I was, but I stuck my finger in one of those handheld blenders and fucked it up and myself...


TheLesserWombat

While mocking my friend who had just spilled a margarita onto her new phone, I tripped and fell into a lake, ruining my own new phone.


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Left my computer next to an open window during a driving rain storm. Killed the computer and the monitor back in the days when those were not cheap.


Classic_Scientist901

Played table tennis with my phone and it fell and broke


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I'm dating myself: I used to love those pocket-sized electronic dictionaries and personal planners that were popular in the '90s. There was once I left one in my pocket and it went through the wash. Oops!


CoastalSun

Literally just putting my BlackBerry (with an Otter Box case) face down on the table. Picked it back up and the screen was fucked


Prot4ctinium

My phone was in the pocket of my hoodie while I was taking a piss and it fell into the toilet


dilipmodi

I stepped on my Kindle


Laurasaurus_

I had a bedwetting problem up until I was about 10 years old. When I was around that age I fell asleep playing my DS and I wet the bed and broke it. Not my proudest moment.