What Was Your Worst Computer Accident?

Anonymous Writer writes "I learned years ago to backup regularly and never keep a drink on the same table as a laptop. I accidentally spilled a drink onto my laptop's keyboard where it drained into the laptop's innards, ruining the motherboard, CD-ROM, and hard drive. Thousands of dollars and all my data disappeared in a flash. Considering that there are even people out there that intentionally damage hardware, I was wondering what kind of disasters Slashdot readers have experienced."

Comments

Haha

[Anonymous Coward]

Slrpr!

Re:Cheeto mayhem.

[Txiasaeia]

CHEETO! Haven't seen you in AGES! Where ya been, bro?

I hate Bush so much that I'm villing to blow all

[ArsenneLupin]

my karma to get him unseated:

Is Soros Planning 'October Surprise' for Bush?

Nah, bad idea, Georgie: all this is going to do is give Bush another excuse for calling off the presidential elections. Your money is better invested in a hitman, plus it will be lots cheaper!

Re:I hate Bush so much that I'm villing to blow al

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! Hope your sacrifice helps! Unfortunately, hitpeople take only cold hard cash, and not Slashdot karma points :-(

Re:Mouse Pee

[azav]

frags. Not frag's.

Learn the apostrophe young jedi.

I would have expected you to have passed 4th grade English by now.

JEOMK

[Anonymous Coward]

JEOMK (Just Ejaculated On My Keyboard)

Re:Worst computer accident?

[Anonymous Coward]

Only if you call it "the" OC

Tom Petty Owes me a Keyboard

[robochan]

or How Tom Petty Almost Made Me Quit Smoking

^@%$#%^@##@%$^%@#$ Tom Petty
How dare he make an album like Wildflowers, that can make you zone out and get lost for an hour. I just got done with a zone session that ended up with a cigarette burning through the left CTRL key on my nifty Keytronic LT Wireless Keyboard, the keyboard I've been faithfully typing away at for almost 5 years now.
:-(
:-(
:-(
That keyboard, along with my trusty Logitech Cordless Mouseman, has been the direct interface between myself and the virtual world for some time now. The freedom was incredible. I could ease into my La-Z-Boy recliner, kick back, and surf for hours and hours and hours....[droooooooooool]

Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.

That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweet acoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time ... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...

I'm accosted by the stench of burning pl