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My Worst Nightmare

I came home from giving my girlfriend a lift to work this morning and heard a strange noise from the living room. I ran in to discover water cascading from an on wall "Mr. Slim" indoor air conditioning unit onto my stereo. I naturally freaked, pulled my whole rack to the other side of the room and then surveyed the damage. Not too bad actually. I'm in the midst of an amp trade, and despite bemoaning the lack of an amp the night before, the empty bottom shelf is where most of the water fell. The only casualty if any may be my Chang Lightspeed 3200, which was fairly well doused. But all in all, I got lucky. What's the worst thing that ever happened to your system?
Jon
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blkadr
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I came home one night carrying some groceries. In the dark it took a second to realize I was putting the bags down where my TV should be.This was quite a while back, they took my TV, NAD 3020, Thorens turntable, but left my 45lb speakers alone.
Well, if my dog had not been off visiting with my x-girlfriend this would never have happened. She was a sweet German Shepherd that the neigbors kids sometimes sat on like a couch. But if you came to my door and she didnt know you...
Now for the little moral victory that buffered the blow. My TV had just suffered a massive meltdown and was toast. The scumbags had actually taken the tiny B+W TV that sat on my color TV and placed it gently on the couch. They took the large boat anchor that was once my TV, carried it down some stairs and through a wooded lot, and at some effort. Small consolation, but it just made me smile.
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
In 1989, my Ex's lawyer forcing me to sell the only thing I had left after they finished picking my carcass: my stereo. It wasn't much but it was musical: Magnepan SMGa, Adcom 535, Counterpoint 7.1, Thorens TD160
thorman
1,262 posts
 
On Christmas morning a few years back I was playing Christmas music for backround music while opening presents,when we all heard a snap and looked outside to see the Transformer on fire on the telephone pole in front of my house.By the time I realized anything there was smoke coming from my stereo room and lo and behold my Audio Research SP-8 was smoking like a barbeque. It also cooked a few others electronics of my neighbors too...Thank God for Insurance "Riders". I was covered completely and got my purchase price refunded.
bigbry
20 posts
 
I farted once really really close to my new Belles pre amp.
It's ok.
BE
ohlala
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"They took the large boat anchor that was once my TV, carried it down some stairs and through a wooded lot, and at some effort. Small consolation, but it just made me smile."

That's so funny. Kind of reminds me when my Eclipse CD player was stolen from my car. I guess they didn't know that once the power supply is cut, it will won't ever turn on again without a "key" CD. It didn't weigh a fifty pounds, though, so your story is way better.
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