I have some framed paintings. Late last night, one decided to fall off the wall onto a shelf containing my wii, a heavy chinese statue, and a full to the brim glass of fruit punch.... :-( Fruit punch lands on approximately 300 cds and cdrs stored in cakeboxes, all open. :dammit: I spent the next hour washing and drying cdrs, my other rooms look like CDR gardens, every spare inch covered by cds and cdr. Scrubbing carpet on hands and knees at 2am!! :banghead:
Once in a very old house a neighbour put a masonry nail (7 inch and up nail) through there wall and into ours. It took a shelf right off the wall.
Always make sure that painting are hung with mirror plates into the wall using the correct raw plugs for the wall type (or into the stubwork) and the right length screws for the weight of the painting say inch and a half.
D'oh. Reminds of the time my Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru manual fell into a bucket of water (and pretty much survived because of its thick glossy paper :-0)
When I was younger I would transport my Dreamcast and a couple of games in a box to and from various locations. One day I had a bottle of Sprite above the box, something knocked it over and some got in the box. Thankfully (or unfortunately?) only Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Shenmue got hit. The former had some pages in the manual get a bit funky where as Shenmue got away with being wiped down by a papertowel. After that I rarely took any video games outside of my house for any length of time.
I'm trying to think of a situation where a bucket of water would be in the vicinity of a copy of Shinrei.
Reminds me of an event years ago still stuck in my head where a cup of grapefuit juice was placed on a ledge right above where my N64 was kept. Forgot it was there and was fixing the blankets on my bed and hit it, splashing it all over. By a miracle though it somehow completely avoided the system, which surprised me. Especially since they put that grating/heating vent thing on the front just for a bunch of dirt to fly in, I almost panicked
Alright, get this: I bought a copy of Shinrei (cost me $50 or so, crazy price, got real lucky there :-0). Just one thing; the manual had some slightly crooked pages. I thought about putting something with a little weight to it on top of it for a few days to straighten them out. I came across a jeux des boules (lawn bowling) set in a small wooden box in an open closet in the hallway. I simply placed the manual underneath it for a few days. A few days later my father (I still lived at home back then, aaaanyway) was cleaning the closet with..a bucket of water. When he removed the jeux des boules set from the closet the manual stuck to bottom of the wooden box (probably something to do with static) for a few seconds..before dropping from mid-air into a -rather small- bucket of water standing on the floor. OH: What are the odds, eh? To make matters worse I had placed ANOTHER manual under the jeux des boules box (something like JPN Sky Target or suchlike common crap) that DID remain in place.. :banghead: (like said, it thankfully survived, phew) True story, that..
