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How should I break my laptop?

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grubix2
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The title is a little misleading... I'm not looking for some some little kids thinking up ridiculous methods of destroying my laptop.  Here's my situation.

We all know that Dell makes shitty overpriced computers.  Well when I graduated highschool 3 years ago, despite my wishes to not get me a dell laptop, my grandparents did anyways (I love them to death, they just don't know anything when it comes to computers).  Well anyways, my shitty laptop is starting to really show how shitty it is.  The wireless card isn't working right, the fan is making noises about to explode, the CD/DVD burner isn't burning properly, and it's reading discs like a CD player from 1989.

I just found out today that my grandma got one of those 4-year "anything happens to it" college warranties, at the time she bought it.   I'm planning on buying an external hard drive for it anyways, so i'll take off all my data.  What I'm asking is how can I totally this thing without making it look completely intentional.  I don't want them to refurbish it.  I want it to be totaled so they just give me a completely new laptop.  I was thinking about water damage.

Give me your ideas and also a good cover story for the "accident".
Jul 14 2008 10:31PM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
What does the warranty cover? Most don't cover accidents, and most electronics have these things in them so if it touches water it changes and the manufacturer can tell whehter or not its water damage.

Jul 15 2008 6:10AM
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chames
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put it in salt water and let it ferment (salt water DESTROYS electronics) then put it in the oven at about 120-130 degrees for an hour or three, and when its all dried out send it in and say it stopped working
Jul 15 2008 6:25AM
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Ryno
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because the whole inside wont be covered in a layer of salt...dead giveaway
Jul 15 2008 8:09AM
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yelsel
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microwave it?
Jul 15 2008 8:24AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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It will explode, excuse : "Uhm yeah my little bro shoved it in the microwave for fun!"
Jul 15 2008 8:35AM
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dave44
Posts: 11052 - Karma: 113
Open it up, get a paper clip, lay it across the motherboard or something (earth yoself), turn it on, let it short, then remove the paper clip and put it together. Ta da! MY COMPUTER BROKED!!
Jul 15 2008 8:42AM
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S.b.H
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leave it out in the rain. then be like i left my window open !!
Jul 15 2008 9:29AM
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ben_southworth
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haha!

on a more serious note, use water not something sticky and noticable
if they just see soda they might tell you your an idiot and not replace it
but if the water damage dot is kept dry and you claim ignorance they kinda have to replace it
Jul 15 2008 10:13AM
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Peter.
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for sure

who the fuck cares if you ride bulls? this is a skiing site
and a thread about breaking a laptop


anyways, just go with the juice on the keyboard.  make sure to pour some in the little vents on the side too
Jul 15 2008 10:47AM
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kfilenda
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defenitly spill something on it.  its an "honest" accident that happens alot

Jul 15 2008 1:17PM
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AdSkiAm
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i personally like the microwave
Jul 15 2008 10:18PM
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comeatmebro
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guys he said it has accident coverage, so he can spill shit on it and get the dot wet and it won't matter.
Jul 15 2008 10:24PM
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TheClap.
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best post ive seen from you in awhile
Jul 15 2008 10:39PM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
give it the worst virus you can find and have a computer genius working for dell try to fix it for $$$ per hour
Jul 15 2008 11:13PM
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_alli_
Posts: 1792 - Karma: 34
good call.  and just for good measure, dump water over it and claim you had a water bottle in your bag that burst open when you fell. impact and water damage in one believable package.
Jul 15 2008 11:32PM
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Karcher
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hahahahah thats how i live my life
Jul 16 2008 1:16AM
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Celone
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and also send in pictures of a torn up backpack and get pictures of people's scabs who fell on the road, and send them in and be like "this is from my accident, it was pretty severe as you can see"
Jul 16 2008 1:36AM
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tommihq
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I thought we were getting some explosives when i clicked into this thread
Jul 16 2008 10:05AM
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ATLskier
Posts: 8203 - Karma: 406
yup, you could piss on your laptop in the dell headquaters(if you claimed it was an accident) and they would give you a new one. doesn't matter. glass of coke next to it, or better yet, 2 liter spilled on it. problem solved.
Jul 16 2008 5:40PM
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Reptar.
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Heres what you do, trust me.

Get a glass of milk.
Spill it on the keyboard.
Go to Dell claiming your faunt got bigger.


Jul 16 2008 5:47PM
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Edward.
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just smash it with a bat and tell them you were skiing with it and you fell
Jul 16 2008 5:50PM
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inactive
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people like you, ha
Jul 16 2008 9:06PM
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doritos
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I never said otherwise haha... unfortunately, there's a lot of clumsy-ass people like me.
Jul 16 2008 10:41PM
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Skibumsmith
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Fucking brilliant!
Jul 17 2008 1:49AM
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GGreene
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throw it in the freezer and see what happens
and then tell the nice people at dell you were tring to get to chads gap from the bottom of alta and you took a wrong turn and it fell. they should understand
Jul 17 2008 2:27AM
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k-rob
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sorry, didn't realize that was a claim...i was just explaining why i knew what the PBR was, it's not hard to get into rodeos or anything, you just show up and sign some waivers etc.
i have to admit that was a pretty random comment by me though, i was a bit drunk the other night haha
Jul 17 2008 2:33AM
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Ryno
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I realize the purpose of this but does anyone know if this will fuck up your lcd screen at all (seeing as the screen on a closed laptop rests right on the parts that are overheating)?
Jul 17 2008 11:26AM
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Blurst
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 i have a friend who broke her phone and she had the full waranty except water damage but she didnt know that so she licked that dot and her warranty was voided
it was so funny when she was told she had to pay for a new phone
Jul 17 2008 11:43AM
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hael
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damn before i read the thread i was thinking it was just old and ready to die office space style.
Jul 17 2008 11:46AM
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