Rarest thing you've broken?

Rarest thing?
I don't think mine was too rare, but I screwed up the mainboard (ripped components off) of a GameDoctor SFIII trying to swap out the crap floppy drive about 10 years ago as a kid.. only to fix it about 2 years ago

 

ipod nano 3g and a zune, i fall asleep with them on and bad things happen

 

I didn't break it but a $1200 sealed game got opened by customs on the way to me

 

A mint condition Atari Lynx II (in fact it was my sis who messed around with the voltage selector in the AC adaptor while I wasn't home, I connected it and... you can imagine the rest of the story OH. It was not that rare, but it was damn painful since these are pretty uncommon in Uruguay and I never could find one in decent shape again...

 

My first Steel Battalion controller I bought a while back. We got it in at work and I had tested it out and had all kinds of fun with it. Took it home and realized somewhere between work and my apartment I had broken off one of the switches.
I was very fortunate my manager at the time was cool and sympathetic just let me mark that it came into the store that way so I got my credit back called the nearby stores and managed to find another one about an hour away that I bought. =P

 

I lost my ballance and stood on a Wondermega's CD lid once putting a big crack in it. The wost thing is that it wasn't even mine!! I had to forkout 30000 yen for a mint one as a replacement

Yakumo

 

Oh god, that's insane bad luck. May I ask which game it was? Hope not one that costs like 20$ opened. :evil:

 

An expensive light bulb for a beamer slipped my hands, that is about the most expensive thing I ever broke. Approximately $270 in damage, thank god I'm insured.

 

Not strictly gaming related, but the HP Omnibook 530 is still considered pretty rare. It's one of the first 386 machines with an LCD screen that ran off of four AA batteries. The RAM (which is only partly modular) went bad, and in the process of trying to solder in a new chip I set it on fire. I now have the lesser Omnibook 300, which is only a 286 and shows fewer shades of grey but still plays Rogue just fine.

 

It was a very rare NES games named Sqoon

 

Did you receive any compensation? I hope it was insured!

 

I broke some equipment at work last week, £350,000 new. The Ethernet cable clip didn't release properly and when I pulled on the cable the port came off with it!

Stone

 

On a similar note as a trainee I did a stint maintaining specialist printers worth about £8k. We used to make custom Fibre NICs for them and at the time that was my job. Until I made one with the polarity round the wrong way and blew the motherboard... doh! The worst of it was, I refused to believe my NIC was the problem so I tried it on another equally expensive printer, whoops!

 

well not game related, when I was younger my dad had a motorbike he loved and would never let me on it as i was only 15 and not legal to drive it. Him and my mum went on a holiday one summer and left the keys to the bike at home (very silly) and i decided it would be good fun to take it out for a run, little did i know it was running low on oil and I was cruising around town on it thinking I was great when the engine totally seized up. I had to push it home haha

Needless to say he wasnt impressed when he got home LOL

 

Didn't ship insured?

If not, do you ever get insurance for something you ship?

 

I've done the exact same thing to a less expensive CDX when I lost my balance trying to maneuver around a pile of cords. I kind of managed to lift my foot off it after I stumbled a bit without completely putting all my weight on top of it. Even so, it still left a nice ugly crack in the casing.

On the non-gaming related side, I once broke an $8000 antique lamp that my great grandmother had owned for years when I was about 10 or 11. To my surprise, when I told her about breaking it, she didn't even get mad. Grandmothers are nice like that, or at least mine was. =)

 

Or the second you left the room she started uncontrollably punching the walls

 

If it was the buyers responsibility, why eat the loss if he was trying to be cheap? I know it's nice and all, but considering the costs, he really should have insured for his own sake.