Monthly Archives: May 2010

UNKNOWN INCIDENT

"Was working great, up until an object was thrown at the screen"

sharp lcd object

Wii remote. Or an extremely green banana. The child deemed responsible is still pretending it doesn’t know what happened.

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HUMAN ERROR

"the Nintendo Wii remote was thrown at the TV and has now cracked the inner screen, outer screen is fine. Other than the screen TV is in A1 condition"

sony cracked screen

Sony/Nintendo take hardware battle to its logical and physical conclusion. Nintendo won this one as well.

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UNKNOWN INCIDENT

"These memory staicks are faulty in as much as they can take small files such as office documaents, MP3's and such like but anything bigger it doesnt like it"

broken 128gb usb memory

How does it show its displeasure?

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UNKNOWN INCIDENT

"NO ram, No hard drive or caddy. no ac adapter.no cdrom or floppy. Includes battery (untested sold as-is.)"

gateway damaged

No doubt the spacebar has also gone shiny.

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HUMAN ERROR

"i think it was stood on while closed"

stood on ibm laptop

That’s why you should always go the extra mile and place it on the bedside cabinet, and not just casually place it down on the floor beside the bed.

The above sentence is based on personal experience.

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UNKNOWN INCIDENT

"This screen works 80% of the time. When it fails the entire screen goes crazy"

lenovo screen randomiser

Sounds ideal if you want to play ‘Productivity Roulette’.

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HUMAN ERROR

"THE BATTERY STOPPED WORKING PROPERLY (DUE TO AGE) AND WHEN I TRIED TO CHANGE IT I CRACKED THE SCREEN IN THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER (ABOUT 2 1INCH CRACKS). INCLUDED WITH IT IS THE NEW AND SEALED BATTERY THAT I FAILED TO INSTALL!"

ipod cracked battery

Take it to a fashionable man in an Apple store next time. They have all the special screwdrivers.

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HUMAN ERROR

"The screen has a screen protector on, which I added after dropping it"

iphone 3g cracked screen

Maybe if it was Doctor Who’s time-traveling screen protector it would’ve helped.

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UNKNOWN INCIDENT

"100% WORKING EXCEPT THE SCREEN"

cracked dell art

The screen is at least 60% of a laptop, so it’s 40% working at best. But what a beautiful crack. It’d be a shame to fix that.

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HUMAN ERROR

"unfortuantley the wii remote got thrown at the screen! in otherwise mint condition and previous to this was in perfect working order"

jvc wii accident

And we thought Wii accidents were the stuff of urban myth.

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