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The "What I've Dropped" Thread.

JosephDuffy

JosephDuffy

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Jul 12, 2009
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Great Britain
Disclaimer:
*May be too intense for those heartbroken by the partial destruction of :apple: products*

Hey guys,
Thought I'd start a nice little "Off Topic" type thread, "What I've Dropped".
Post what products you've dropped, what happened, where/what onto, and any other side-note type things. Apple products preferred, but not necessary!
Any format that is readable is OK.
I'll start us off:

MacBook Pro
Thin Carpet, in effect a wooden floor
CD got jammed in CD Drive

iPhone 3G 16GB
Table corner, then a chair, then a stone floor.
Opened the Stocks App

Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse
Wooden Floor
Bottom came off, still turns on, but haven't fully tested :S
 
iPhone 3Gs. Out of my lap in the car. My hands were full and I wasnt thinking.
A few dings. I really couldnt care less. I laughed it off. It now has battle scars. :)

Also, the ball a few times at work. :p
 
My iPhone 2G after an epic fail play fight with my friend at a gas station while pumping which resulted in me tripping over the gas line and my iPhone skidding across.

Luckily I sold it and my iPod Touch and got another one.
 
Krafty said:
My iPhone 2G after an epic fail play fight with my friend at a gas station while pumping which resulted in me tripping over the gas line and my iPhone skidding across.
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Have we learned nothing?

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I've dropped a 1st gen iPod touch. It was in my shirt pocket, I bent down and it plopped onto the concrete floor. Scratched the bezel, but otherwise it was fine.

I've also done that with a Handspring Visor (older Palm-style PDA) which was also in the shirt pocket... you'd think I'd learn not to put electronics in there.

I've dropped a Canon digital camera and a Sharp minidisc player down a carpeted stairway. Both of them bounced all the way down, but neither suffered any damage since they were in their padded cases. Whew!

Actually, my worst "drop" experience was a Corningware type container borrowed from my parents. It shattered into a gazillion pieces. I felt so bad, I planned to buy an exact replacement in hopes that my parents wouldn't notice. Do you know how hard it is to shop for something when you know exactly what you need, you're sure you've seen it before in the stores, but then when you actually try to buy one, they're nowhere to be found? I finally did find the exact container I was looking for, and I bought two... just in case. :rolleyes:
 
Today, I saw an iPhone 3GS that had been dropped from the 6th floor of an apartment building. Not surprisingly was that it was no longer working. Surprisingly, it didn't look all that bad. Shattered screen, but the rest of it was in pretty good shape.
 
iPod Classic, I was running and it fell out of my pocket. it bounced a few times on he concrete, picked it up. Worked fine, had little scratches on the corner. I had BSE on it.

I've probably dropped every iPod I've owned atleast once on a wooden floor. I've had 4 ipods.
 
A 10lb bag of flour.... tripped on the cat and the bag went flying against the wall and burst open. :(



the best though was when I was a little kid, I was swinging a bag of cocoa powder in circles (because... i dunno, it was fun?) and my mom said "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!", which freaked me out so I let go and threw the bag into the ceiling fan, which made it open... yeah I was in trouble. Not really dropping, but seems appropriate :)
 
Oh, and my brother once dropped a 1st-gen iPod nano somewhere on Yonge street in Toronto. He blames me for it because we were crossing the street and instead of walking to an intersection like normal people, I saw an opening in traffic and said "Let's go! NOW!" and booted it across. In the rush, it fell out of his pocket.

It was run over by a car, and crushed. Ironically, it was the case that caused its demise. Had it been "naked" and flat on the road, it might have survived. But it landed on its belt clip, which acted as a fulcrum against the wheel that ran it over, and everything got bent around it.
 
My pants.


sry. Okay seriously:

My cellphone (Moto RAZR... very uncool now the hinge is a bit loose)

iPod (from a height of only a few inches, and only once, but still)

Sony DiscMan (when it was fashionable. Then again it acted up so often I slapped the hell out of it numerous times deliberately anyway)

...aaaand both pairs of glasses and my expensive Serengeti sunglasses

Generally I'm, very very careful but some things just slip. :(
 
Many years ago I dropped a Wal MkIII bass whilst I was trying it as the Bass Centre in London.
 
I've honestly not dropped any Apple products, although I had a very close encounter once with my iPhone. It almost careened into tile, but I managed to catch it (On a side thought, I didn't know that my hands could move that fast...) before it hit the ground.

Before I got my iPhone I had a Siemens phone, that thing was dropped many times, not all accidental... I've also dropped a CRT before, but that was more for entertainment than lack catching.
 
A glass cup on hardwood floor (but it did not break)
Lots of lce
Forks, spoons, knifes off of plates
old batteries
flashlights (in the dark and could not find it as it cut off)
Plates with food on top which always land food side down:mad:
water
cloths

Mainly stuff that just makes a mess instead of breaking
 
I've dropped my 1st gen iPod touch on the sidewalk in front of Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago and on the tile floor in my kitchen. It luckily survived both accounts. I've also dropped my LG Rumor numerous times.
 
I've taken thousands of pictures with my SLR, in wet environments, windy, dusty places, holding it over the edges of boats without a strap, outside of moving car windows, you name it, I've done it. I have dropped it once, shooting a soccer game. Worked fine. Another time, a bag of lenses rolled down a hill at night while shooting pictures of fireworks. It was unzipped, and all of the lenses stayed inside the bag, amazingly.

And then three weeks ago, my little Canon PnS camera falls 3' out of a bag with an unzipped pocket, and it won't turn back on. :(
 
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