Rarest thing you've broken?

I remember a long time ago when we were working on an early PlayStation 1 game, one of our programmers wanted to test some serial link code he'd written so he connected 2 PlayStation devkits together. Unfortunately he connected them together using the wrong ports (the joypad ports I think) and blew both of them up!
We were all like "Hey man, you've just destroyed a house!" (houses weren't very expensive in Liverpool in those days)
We laugh about it today but he went into shock at the time!

 

i guess it would be my TOOL that i somehow (don't ask ) managed to get in the shape it doesn't even boot and basically does nothing.

fixed it later but i had just kinda gotten it so wasn't fun at all.

another which i didn't break but that got damaged in transit was a sealed copy of asian version of FFVII. Still sealed, now with a cracked case :crying:

 

Sell it on ebay as a " RARE manfucaturers defect ONLY 1 LIKE IT!!!!!!!" :lol:

 

Probably my PS2 about a year after launch. The disk tray wouldn't close (easy fix BTW) so in frustration, I slammed it shut with a game still inside and it shattered the who laser assembly. It was a blessing in disguise. I got an xbox and my fanboyism stopped when I realized that the people who make fun of your console purchase are only trying to hide their jealousy.

 

What? I can't seem to bring those words in a reasonable order :redface:

 

Oops I meant that it shattered the whole laser assembly. The whole drive was destroyed.

 

Didn't actually break it, but delivered the final blow. Got a Panasonic Q in the mail that was disassembled (box, manual, controllers, Q was $100 shipped) because someone was trying to get the GCN mode to stop being finnicky. Played DVDs just fine but didn't read GCN games.... thanks to my "tweaking" now it simply clicks and doesn't read anything.

 

Not exactly I who broke it (nor may it be entirely broken), but my cousin bumped into a table last summer so that one of my portable drives took a 20cm nosedive from the shelf it was resting on beneath the table. For some reason, the HDD inside it crapped out on me (it simply doesn't wake up when connected to a PC, the exterior works with a new HDD now, etc... so not sure what's broken with the drive itself... not sure what I wanna hope for.)

The HDD holds something kinda cool... so hopefully it's not entirely broken, but I can't spare the money for a repair/recovery right now, so I'll have to do it later (will evt. do it, as that drive also held most of my photos from various journeys and stuff pre-2007).

 

Blowing up the PSU in a Sonic 10th Aniversary Dreamcast that was lent to us by Sega as it was a Japanese machine and not a PAL machine that I thought it was.

 

Hard drives are very delicate things, and a nosedive off a bookcase, especially one switched on and in a 3rd party caddy will likely knack the read heads or cause them to put a lovely dent in your data.

AKA: hope for the best, but in most cases shocking a drive can be a killer. Quality 1st party external drives can have cushioning inside to prevent major shocks, but many don't.

Hope your data isn't killed.