My girlfriend’s sister hurt her back and I volunteered to help take the window air conditioner out. My girlfriend had been holding the unit, but then we needed to take a screw out of the window so we could get the window up. I took out the screw, then pulled up the window…and it fell straight out. Luckily the plug just whipped out of the power strip and didn’t wrap around my arm/leg/neck. The crash was something else. There was a construction crew across the street, and one of them came over to make sure no one was hurt. The contraption is broken now (duh), and it got really squished on the side where it hit.
It is only somewhat redeeming that I now have a good example to teach my physics students in the morning…
In college my roommate and I purchased a new air conditioner from Home Depot during a particularly hot stretch of summer. He installed by just setting into the window frame and pulling down the flimsy screen. Naturally the screen didn’t hold it and we had a rather spectacular three story drop to the pavement below.
Being a college degenerate my roomie insisted that this was somehow the fault of the manufacturers of the air conditioner and that we were certainly entitled to return it for a new one. He reboxed it and brought the battered remains back and said it didn’t work right. Home Depot cheerfully brought out a replacement and roomie made a quick getaway.
PICTURES! Where’s the pictures, dag gum it! The youth of today, goes to the trouble of dropping a perfectly good air conditioner out the window and forgets to take pictures!.
I’m a self-admitted bad man but lack the cojones to do that and maintain self-respect. Whoo!
It is funny as hell, though.
So Jim, where did you get that strange dent in your head? Well, I was standing on the street, smokin’ a cigarette, mindin’ my own business, when all of a sudden…
All the air conditioners I own have a helpful tag on them that says something like “Do not drop out window.” I can only surmise that your air conditioner failed to have that warning label on it, and is therefore defective and should be returned.
