Back in college, my roommate got wasted during a certain final 4 basketball game. He came home to pass out sometime in the late night, but decided he better drain the pipes first. Being disoriented from the drunkeness, he mistook his closed laptop for a toilet lid, lifting it up and draining 4 or 5 beers worth directly onto the keypad, and off onto his desk. Of course he did not remember this, but a forensic analysis after the hangover wore off revealed the tell tale splash marks of urination dried onto the screen. The laptop would not turn on, but after using a similar process of full disassembly, followed with distilled water, 99% rubbing alchohol, a toothbrush and a couple hundred cotton swabs, the laptop was nearly fully functional, minus a floppy drive and ethernet port. It still works 3 years later.
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Back in college, my roommate got wasted during a certain final 4 basketball game. He came home to pass out sometime in the late night, but decided he better drain the pipes first. Being disoriented from the drunkeness, he mistook his closed laptop for a toilet lid, lifting it up and draining 4 or 5 beers worth directly onto the keypad, and off onto his desk. Of course he did not remember this, but a forensic analysis after the hangover wore off revealed the tell tale splash marks of urination dried onto the screen. The laptop would not turn on, but after using a similar process of full disassembly, followed with distilled water, 99% rubbing alchohol, a toothbrush and a couple hundred cotton swabs, the laptop was nearly fully functional, minus a floppy drive and ethernet port. It still works 3 years later.