LCD vs. Sledgehammer

The Accident

I was climbing out of the bathtub, one hand holding my 10" tablet, the other swinging around vigorously to keep my balance.

I placed the tablet onto a 5-gallon bucket of roofing compound that I keep next to the bathtub, but to my dismay, the tablet slipped off the bucket and fell onto a sledgehammer resting next to it. Glass side down, of course.

The terrible sound of glass on sledgehammer!

For a few seconds I thought the screen was broken: there were weird lines going across the lit LCD. But it turned out it was just water droplets that ran across the surface.

Conclusions:

While no damage had occurred, in light of this accident, and the previous accident (in which I spilled 1 liter of water onto my laptop), I clearly need to review safety procedures around my house.

To that effect, I moved the sledgehammer behind the bucket, so it's more out of the way.

2024-01-12 · 2 years ago · 😄 2

5 Comments ↓

with such a large house, is there no other spot for such materials than the bathroom? not sure if you're mid-construction.

although I must say that's amazing it didn't break.

You missed an opportunity to buy a new tablet. Next time, try harder.

That's got to be the strangest first-world tech accident I've heard since someone dropped their Macbook Pro on their iPad.

Props for that.

We once broke a Chromebook by dropping a tablet on it. I think it's the only time I've ever really "repaired" a laptop ... because on opening it up, it transpired that the impact had knocked the internal display connector loose. Plugged back in :)