Now Hear This, literally:

I just got an email from a friend of mine in Canada who simultaneously destroyed two Antique Sound Lab tube amps, fortunately not very expensive ones, and nearly caught his house on fire. He had read that he needed to keep the cables short, so he had placed the amps on top of his NHT speakers (the big ones with the bass drivers). Well you can guess what happened.

Now I'm sure he wasn't the first, but it was the first time I had heard of this. Anyhow, in light of that (and in honor of my friend's infinite wisdom) I thought it might be fun to have an Audio/Video Darwin Awards list here. If you know someone who has, or if you have the courage to admit that you yourself have done something absolutely deserving of ridicule with your gear, then let's hear it. Better yet, post a picture of the carnage.

P.S. In good fun, of course.