1) Dropping my brand-new Droid 2 in the toilet, completely ruining it, and later to find out I had no insurance.

2) Accidentally sending a sext to the wrong person.

I was 8, it was a sunny summer day. I had my brand new Tamagotchi attached to a belt loop of my jeans (as was the style). I had made a trip to Toys-R-Us specifically to get it, and it was at the peak of their popularity when they were really, really hard to find. Unfortunately, I totally forgot it was there on my belt loop when me and my brother got into an intense hose/watergun fight. Turns out my day-old Tamagotchi couldn't handle the water, and never turned on again. It absolutely broke my heart, and I cried about it all day.

I've messed up much more expensive gadgets in the years since but none of them were ever as bad as the loss of my Tamagotchi.

On a warm, clear spring day at my generically beautiful midwestern university campus last year, I put the final touches on my very last final of my senior year. I am done (with the exception of one paper I only need to email in to a professor)!

I pack up my belongings and head back to my apartment to take a well-deserved mid-morning siesta after pulling an all nighter the previous evening. A few hours later, I wake up with the afternoon sun on my face ready to read my paper one more time and turn in the masterpiece to cap off my college career. I open up my timbuk2 to a wet surprise. I did not securely fasten my water bottle top and my MacBook Pro had been taking a bath for the past four hours. Cause of death-- drowning.

-Epilogue-
My professor let me essentially dictate and discuss the paper to him to avoid hours of rework. All is well with the world. Well-- all is well with the world minus one computer.

Once I was passing a power cord over the top of my laptop when the plug end slipped out of the bundle, swung forward and cracked the screen. I couldn't afford to get it replaced so I had to carefully position windows away the spreading dark line. Eventually most of the screen was overtaken (I used a plug in monitor to actually do work), but by that point it was time for a new computer anyway.

@r0ss - wow that's so sad to hear about your MacBook. Reminds me of when I left a gallon jug of water in my trunk during rally racing. Those tops don't stay on very tight once opened. :)

I can relate to dropped phones - first day I got my brand new Treo 700W (RIP Palm) I slid it into my pocket, only to miss the pocket straight to the gravel ground. FIRST DAY!

About nine months after getting my Sony Ericsson W810i, I was at a local fair and I went on a ride called "the zipper", where the riders are spun forward and backwards numerous times are high speeds. Unfortunately, my phone slipped out of my pocket and through the bars of the cage and was launched off the ride straight into the ground. The battery cover flew off, the battery flew out of the phone, and even the memory stick pro came loose and launched itself out of the phone.

Amazingly in the end, my phone only lost it's little orange circular mirror. Four years later and I am still using the phone (only because I somehow managed to lose my Samsung Propel about four months after I bought it).

1. i was late night surfing on my new mac book pro in bed...i gently set it on the floor and slid it under the bed. In the wee morning hours I groggily got up out of bed and heard a distinct crunching sound under my right heel...my beloved mac book was not completely under my bed and I stepped on the edge, cracking the screen -- which is now covered in clear tape because the two week vacation to California to fix the glass is more time apart than I can afford.

2. A year and a half later, my mac book takes a short header off the edge of my couch and lands on the slate floor --denting the edge. Why didn't I invest in a protective cover? ARgh.

Who HASN'T had a tech blunder?! Phones in baths / toilets, laptop dropped down a granite staircase - the list goes on. BUT, remember your broken electricals can still be recycled and value can still be extracted from it, chances are there are valuable materials that can be reused and turned into something new - if you're in the UK you can check where you nearest point is at www.recyclenow.com It's Recycle Week, so never a better time to recycle your old, broken tech, if you've had the misfortune to drop it / sink it / blow it up!

One day, I was at work minding my own business when the sudden urge overtook me to go to the bathroom. Now, in my slightly hungover state I didn't hear my six hundred dollar flip phone (hey, it was the early 00s clamshells were cool) drop into the loo. A few seconds later it was flushed, I washed my hands and reached into my pocket to check my messages. Needless to say the panic I felt at being bereft of the only piece of tech I owned that linked me to my flavor of the week was distressing, and I immediately rushed down to the electronics store for a new phone (thankfully with the same number). Two weeks later I dumped the guy, but I still have that replacement phone for emergencies :P

And I sing the praises of Toshiba laptops. I've had three in the last ten years and they have never been upgraded because of obselescence, not the ridiculous number of times I have stepped on them, dropped them, or spilled something on them.

And Samsung smart phones? The touch screens still work perfectly fine when they're smashed to bits.

My Vintage superscope Stereo Receiver exploded.

Marble Floor. Handspring Visor.

Tile floor. Original iPhone - just the home button broke.

I now buy a case the same day as the device.

Ouch, horrific stories, everyone, thanks for sharing!

@raymondleggs - how'd that happen?