What's the Worst Thing You've Done to a Piece of Hardware?

[wraggster]

Someone walking through the parking lot of my apartment complex and seeing a shattered DualShock laying on the ground probably thought someone had a little temper tantrum mixed in with his Bioshock last night. Actually, that's only half right. I wasn't mad at a game, but I was mad at the controller (of course, I'm not to blame). I'd spilled Dr. Pepper all over myself and some got in the left thumbstick. Suddenly I could not move to the right anymore. That's kind of important in a game like MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. It's kind of important in any game, actually. I tested it against my other controller, restarted the machine, let it dry out, nothing. So, $60 got me barely a day's worth of use of this controller. I said why not, heaved it over a row of apartments here and into the adjacent parking lot.

The weekday guys forgot to do a TUD and I know everyone likes weighing in, so I'll ask you here: What's the worst thing you've ever done to a piece of hardware, and why? Bonus points for details like people harmed/frightened by the act. Tell us everything about your rage! Tell us, dammit!

http://kotaku.com/5074202/whats-the-...ce-of-hardware

[newb_fo_life]

I once smashed up a laptop that had been damaged by smoke and didnt work,Was pretty damn good,I also threw a sledge hammer at a crt monitor (big boom coz its vaccumed)

It was pretty damn cool

[pspmodel1001]

The worst thing I've done to a piece of HW was when My iPod back light would not stay on unless I squezed it. One day I squezzed it a little too hard a heard a scratching noise. So I restarted the iPod and as I thought, I scratched the HDD. After that, I left it alone for a couple months. Now I got back to my iPod months later and desided to open it up.*Was completly bored at this point* I wanted to see what was in an iPod. I took it COMPLETLY apart. After that, I wanted to know what the HDD looked like inside, so I opened it up. But doing that, I broke a piece off. All I have left of the iPod is the screen and the torn apart HDD. That was a fun day!

[noname1]

The worst thing I've done to a piece of HW was when My iPod back light would not stay on unless I squezed it. One day I squezzed it a little too hard a heard a scratching noise. So I restarted the iPod and as I thought, I scratched the HDD. After that, I left it alone for a couple months. Now I got back to my iPod months later and desided to open it up.*Was completly bored at this point* I wanted to see what was in an iPod. I took it COMPLETLY apart. After that, I wanted to know what the HDD looked like inside, so I opened it up. But doing that, I broke a piece off. All I have left of the iPod is the screen and the torn apart HDD. That was a fun day!

Haha another ipod accident.
I also destroyed my ipod.
I just put ipodlinux on it and it was working fine i really loved it to play some doom and watch movies but one day the ipod couldn't boot so i was angry and hit the screen with my fist and it cracked but it was a really gentle punch.
So i also opened my ipod and it worked again! i removed ipodlinux and i had a working ipod nano 1st gen! but the screen was f*cked up and i couldn't see anything on it again.

Oh yeah another thing.
I had a M3 perfect SD and a passkey 2 for my ds i really liked them but my SD card and passkey got screwed up after a while.
I threw those thing at the wall (the only way to get them to work)
but my passkey is broken now maybe my M3 too.

[pspmodel1001]

WOW.

Also a friend of mine had an old GBC w/ a cracked screen. After awhile of cracking the screen more with my thumbs, two of my friends grabed it out of my hands, took out the batteries, put a battery on the floor, put the GBC screen on top of that and stomped on it a couple of times. The next day, a few of my friends in one of my classes was trying to rip it apart. After a couple of people trying, It was completly ripped in many pieces.

That was the most fun I had with a GBC ever!

[Chalkbot]

A friend of mine (I would never do this) took a machette to his psp after a frustrating experience in Monster Hunter. The rest of us were bummed out because we couldn't play PSP with him anymore. He eventually got enough money together to buy another one and things were back to normal. One of my other friends asked me if I heard about him destroying his PSP with a machette. I chuckled and said yes, I heard about it. Then he was like, I can't believe he did it again! Then I was like, wait, again? Yep, it didn't take long before PSP number 2 met the same fate as the original, due to Monster Hunter 2. I told him he should seriously consider getting rid of the machette, it would save him a ton of cash.

[GibsonSGKing]

A friend of mine (I would never do this) took a machette to his psp after a frustrating experience in Monster Hunter. The rest of us were bummed out because we couldn't play PSP with him anymore. He eventually got enough money together to buy another one and things were back to normal. One of my other friends asked me if I heard about him destroying his PSP with a machette. I chuckled and said yes, I heard about it. Then he was like, I can't believe he did it again! Then I was like, wait, again? Yep, it didn't take long before PSP number 2 met the same fate as the original, due to Monster Hunter 2. I told him he should seriously consider getting rid of the machette, it would save him a ton of cash.

lol, that, or get rid of monster hunter

[ian h]

i not so long ago threw my 600 pound laptop out my bedroom window, all because i was drunk and couldnt put my windows password in and thought it was my laptop and not me, stupidest thing ive ever done, oh yh that and selling my psp :-(

[pspmodel1001]

i not so long ago threw my 600 pound laptop out my bedroom window, all because i was drunk and couldnt put my windows password in and thought it was my laptop and not me, stupidest thing ive ever done, oh yh that and selling my psp :-(

Next time yer drunk, hide it or lock it for later. Sold yer psp!? WOW

[ian h]

Next time yer drunk, hide it or lock it for later. Sold yer psp!? WOW

i know yh im seriously losing my hair over both! gonna get a asus ee pc soon though and a slim!