I bet Sapo lives in a glass house.
That would be a bitch to insure here in hurricane country.
Unless you meant it figuratively. In that case I just don’t get how people post celebratory threads about their petty crimes and expect to be high fived.
I am at least as far from perfect as the norm, if not more. That doesn’t mean I expect everyone to sing “go, Sapo” when I post about the time I drove 160kph on a 15kph zone.
- Technician at a dealership has the head off of a twin cam motor.
- Reassembles engine.
- Puts oil and coolant in it.
- Starts engine
- Revs the living shit out of motor as his way of bragging that he got done with the job quickly
- Cams freeze due to oil not yet being supplied to the bearing journals.
- Engine comes to a screeching halt. Broken belt, bent valves, destroyed head.
- Technician gets to repeat steps 1-4, for free this time.
Well, that’s only because we don’t really know how fast 160 kph is. English, please? Otherwise, we’d be cheering you on like you was Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
As for the rest of your posting, aren’t you drawing unwarranted conclusions? What did the OP say to make you think he was going to be dishonest about the source of the damage? I only ask because I got a warranty replacement for my cell phone last year even though it had water damage (and I told them so).
160kph = 100 millas por hora. 
15 kph = 10 millas por hora.
(and do you really need a conversion to see what’s wrong with driving 10 times the speed limit?)
At any rate, you are right about the actual point of your post. I jumped to the conclusion that he was going to be sneaky about it (not the first one to do so, btw). The OP doesn’t make that clear. I will give him the benefit of doubt and wait for clarification.
I did this as well, although I put the egg into a two cup measuring cup filled with water, then put it the whole thing in the microwave thinking, “hard boiled egg in half the time!!”
Blew all the water out of the measuring cup too!
On the other hand, you can put CDs in the microwave. Pretty neat! 
One thing I know you should never cook in the microwave is nothing. Thats right nothing.
My daughter will tell you how she learned this lesson after she broke my brand new, three week old microwave, by cooking nothing in it.
The dinner she was preparing was in the regular oven but since we had no working timer on the regular oven she set the microwave to run for a half hour and ding on the completion of the half hour.
First the glass turntable mysteriously cracked and three days later it never ran again.
So at least you cooked something instead of nothing.
My replacement microwave I got for Mothers Day had a kitchen timer on it
Maybe kph works on a logarithmic scale?
If you want a huge blister in the roof of your mouth, you can omit this step and simply chomp down on the egg. Ouch!
So you’re the reason they printed “Do Not Microwave in Wrapper!” all over the wrapper. Nice to know who was responsible for that one.
Now if I could just figure out who used their curling iron while sleeping. . .
Ouch.
I mean, OUCH.
I know how you feel.
I once purchased – after saving for six freakin’ months! – a PDA. A nice one for the time, too, the Toshiba E-355. I still have it, in fact. Sorta.
Anyway, one morning perhaps two weeks after buying it I got up and went out to my living room to do some fiddling. I was experimenting with turning it into a TV remote, and I had the power function working the night before but not the rest. So I set it down on the couch and went to the kitchen to get myself some breakfast.
Coming out after breakfast I couldn’t find the durn thing. What the hell? I looked high, low, in the kitchen, in the fridge, by the TV, everywhere. Finally I thought maybe it had dropped into the couch. So what did I do? I kneeled on the couch to dig into the cushions.
crruunnch
Yeah, that wasn’t covered by warranty. Me = stupid.
I had no problem understanding it, eh?
In case anyone is wondering how an iPod would survive an encounter with a blender… WILL IT BLEND?
Yeah, when I got to the bit of the OP that mentioned the warranty I did a mental :dubious:
Indeed, which is why Mum always had a glass of water in the microwave for the first couple of years we owned one.
YES. Funny enough, I just learned about this a few days ago. Thankfully it was from someone else’s previous misfortune and not my own. I specifically popped into this thread to see if anyone mentioned it.
Just to get it out the way, I spoke to AppleCare at lunch today (lovely 15 minute wait, it was) and yes, I did give him the twenty second version of my tale. The guy was really quite nice about it and yes, said he can probably still give me warranty (he opened the ticket anyway) but he still has to run me through the maze first, so when I get home this evening I have to call them back and give them the ticket number so they can get me to try some things first. Then if nothing else works they’ll probably have me drop by my nearest Apple store for an exchange. I mean the thing works great except for the WiFi problem, and if I didn’t need WiFi I could live without it, but … well, an iPod Touch without WiFi is a big deal.
SofaSpud - Ouch. That reminds me of my first PDA. Palm Vx, loved the little thing. I didn’t have a case or any sort of protetion for it though (this was prior to the life lessons that taught me that these are good things to have) so I kept it in my back pocket (when I wasn’t sitting down). Faulty logic led me to reason that it would be best to keep it with the screen facing out so that, should I sweat, it won’t damage the screen. Now I tended to be careful with such things, but that sense of caution went out the window when I bent down to look at a computer (I was a PC tech at the time) and backed my rump into the corner of another PC behind me. My butt was saved from damage by my PDA. My PDA wasn’t so lucky. The button board was permanently mashed, so … bye-bye PDA.
racer72/Rick - Being that I work for a small engine parts distributor, and particularly as I am currently in a brief course on engine teardown and theory, I found this particularly amusing, since I have dealt with dealers who are calling up to shortblock an engine because their customer ran it dry. It never fails. No, it doesn’t come with oil in it already, other than residue from the reddish tester oil they test it with before it leaves the line. Yes, you have to use all of it. At once. No, you can’t have warranty. Not yours.
Muffin - It tasted like burning.
tdn - Wow, I thought it would have exploded before that long, and I didn’t know that it was capable of being turned into a grenade. I did know about poking them, and have done them in the microwave before, but they take so damn long that I just do 'em in the oven. Takes just about as long there.
Brewha - Ah, yes. The egg in the microwave. My dad did the same thing in the early 90s. It was our first microwave, and I guess the physics and thermodynamics involved in heating a liquid source in a solid casing didn’t occur to him when he tried. The BOOM! was impressive – it blew the door open. The mess, even more so. He never nuked eggs again.
TroubleAgain - Wait, you even have to puncture the yolk? That I did not know. But then the only time I ever do eggs in the microwave is if they’re scrambled in a Pyrex dish or cup. (They come out incredibly light and fluffy that way!)
IvoryTowerDenizen - I’ve lost a PDA before. (Yeah, I had a bit of bad luck with PDAs) It was a Sony Clie’ SJ33 several years back. The good thing though is that it gave me an excuse to upgrade to the latest and greatest, and I’d just gotten a promotion with a big fat raise at that point, so I couldn’t have timed my dumbassedness any better.
This time, not so much. I do feel better that I can probably get it exchanged under warranty, but the shame of my stupidity still burns. It wasn’t even that I had to put my iPod on the tray either, I just found it convenient. I could have left it in my coat pocket. I just didn’t want to forget it and then have to go retrieve it when I remembered/needed it, because I’m lazy.
If nothing else, those trays are now, in my mind, explicitly for microwave-safe materials only. Even if I’m nowhere near a microwave.
I only let something turn me into a drooling moron once. My real problem is the number of things that are capable of turning me into a drooling moron.
Hahaha, similar thing happened when I was a kid, except we thought we should probably put it in a big cup full of water. You know, boil and egg. We put it in for three minutes. Nothing happened. My younger sister and I opened the microwave door. KAAABLLLAAAMMMMM! Egg and hot water everywhere. Good thing neither of us were right in the way.
My ex-wife and I had a discussion about 2 years ago. I was at her place, waiting for the kids to finish breakfast so I could take them to school. I hear the microwave start.
“You have until it’s done!”, she warns them.
When I inquire about what she has in the microwave, she says nothing.
“You’re going to kill that thing,” I warn her.
“No, I’m not. It’ll be fine.”
2 weeks later, I’m at her place in the morning again, and she mentions to the kids that they can’t use the microwave, as it’s dead.
I wasn’t even that smug about it. She just walked through the living room, and told me she didn’t want to hear it from me.
My roommate’s girlfriend once heard about these stories, and decided to test it by putting one of our pet white mice in the microwave. He caught her just as she pressed the Start button. The mouse was only in the oven for 1-2 seconds, so it managed to twitch and convulse for several minutes before it finally died.
Moral of the story: Never microwave anything you don’t plan to eat later.