While I was dating a girl I one day found her family computer was missing. Upon asking about it she told me that it was broken... so I offered to fix it. "No... you can't fix it. Trust me."
Her mom is the main person to use the computer. Apparently the hard drive had died one day and the mother had decided the entire computer was now garbage... so she decided to unplug the monitor. Unfortunately it was a CRT monitor [one of those big blocky ones] and she tried removing the cable from the monitor end... if you know anything about CRTs, you should realize that the cable is hard wired into the box and is not meant to be removed. She succeeded, and then threw everything out.
What a waste xD