Good boys and girls don't leave their Xbox 360s on the stove

As reader Ty claims, apparently the above Xbox 360 melting occurred when he and his pals, setting up to conduct a furious Halo 3 LAN match, ran out of space enough for an Xbox everywhere in the house except on the kitchen stove. Someone turns the range on and presto change-o: grilled Xbox. Ok, the story doesn't quite add up, but there's no denying the box is melted. And that leaves us preoccupied with wrapping our heads deciding what's more mind-blowingly ironic: that the melted console's owner cared enough about heat that he kitted his Xbox with a 3rd party cooling device, or that despite it all, this particular ring of death apparently didn't even brick the thing.

P.S. -Additional gooey meltiness after the break.

[Thanks, Ty]

[tony @ Oct 8th 2007 1:36AM]

haha crazy

im first!!

woop woop

;-)

[adium @ Oct 8th 2007 7:40AM]

and the worst! woop woop

[James @ Oct 8th 2007 9:33AM]

And just as clever as the guy who left this on the stove!

Woop woop!

[Ashton @ Oct 8th 2007 1:35PM]

haha crazy

you're four!!

woop woop

;-)

[Arjy @ Oct 8th 2007 1:37AM]

So wait, it still works?


Thats awesome!

[Paul Gandersman @ Oct 8th 2007 1:38AM]

the ULTIMATE mod

[Kozzi @ Oct 8th 2007 2:23AM]

yeah .. wrong side dammit

[Ron Smith @ Oct 8th 2007 1:38AM]

well, the big gaping hole has to have improved the cooling.

[mr mike @ Oct 8th 2007 1:39AM]

nice mod! i did that once to a basket of dirty clothes!!!

[MonkeyHood @ Oct 8th 2007 1:45AM]

Not really, since there seems to be a big flat metal plate in the way.

[ketel1 @ Oct 8th 2007 8:24AM]

but metal exchanges heat much easier than plastic!

[evil @ Oct 8th 2007 1:38AM]

rock hard dumbness! woot!!!

[Marin @ Oct 8th 2007 1:40AM]

Theres a huge amount of counter space next to the stove where they could have put the 360...

[Darkest Daze @ Oct 8th 2007 1:45AM]

Yes, but apparently, logic was the one thing he had to leave at home since his backpack was most likely stuffed full of Bawls and his 360.

[Andir3.0 @ Oct 8th 2007 10:27AM]

Nobody ever said that 360 owners were logical...

[Gabe @ Oct 8th 2007 1:42AM]

Smooth the jagged edges, get a nice piece of plexy and some LEDs and nobody will ever know.. Just another modded 360

[John Doe @ Oct 8th 2007 1:44AM]

Let me guess. This guy also destroyed his TV with a Wiimote? Idiot.

[Chris Macdonald @ Oct 8th 2007 9:48AM]

wow you're clever

[Patrick @ Oct 8th 2007 1:48AM]

Should have thought to put it in the fridge, then it wouldn't get either kind of ring of death.

[spiral prophet @ Oct 8th 2007 1:57AM]

See.. Some people are just Stupid... BUT.. 2 weeks from now you'll see a lawsuit stating that nowhere in the xbox360 literature or on the box does it say to NOT put it on top of an oven and or turn said oven on.. thus this is all microsofts fault and thus the individual in possession of said xbox 360 is due a monetary sum of $1,000,000,000 for replacement of damaged goods as well as compensation for the defamation of character that occured after said incident within the blog comments at engadget..

[Cory @ Oct 8th 2007 2:46AM]

Actually it says "Do not place the console or power supply near any heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, STOVES, or amplifiers"

[kero @ Oct 8th 2007 2:00AM]

"Uh... those are speed holes... they make it go faster."-- shady car dealer on 'The Simpsons'

[Nando @ Oct 8th 2007 2:02AM]

This looks like a promo for The Orange Box's Portal.

[Jagannath A @ Oct 8th 2007 5:45AM]

LOL! even I was thinking of portal

[Kevin @ Oct 8th 2007 7:39AM]

If at first you don't succeed, you fail.

[Cy-Fi @ Oct 10th 2007 3:30AM]

And with that idea in mind, melt a hole in the other side, put some orange and blue LEDs on each respective side with some plexi and sell it on Ebay at a profit. Hell, I'd buy it before I bought a manhunt 2 themed Wii.

[Nubaeus @ Oct 8th 2007 2:03AM]

Um...if it has that 'breathe' design, how did it melt in the middle? Wouldn't the ends get scorched??

[ouphie @ Oct 8th 2007 2:13AM]

Was beer involved? Or spiked Game Fuel?

[Patrick @ Oct 8th 2007 3:03AM]

Would game fuel even need to be spiked?

[Ess2s2 @ Oct 8th 2007 2:14AM]

As if the thing didn't get hot enough on it's own...

[B @ Oct 8th 2007 2:21AM]

Seeing as he's got the ring-of-death-causing intercooler on it, leaving his 360 on the stove wasn't his first act of stupidity.

[Melenor @ Oct 8th 2007 2:25AM]

I'm pretty sure the stove had nothing to do with it.

[duke @ Oct 8th 2007 2:32AM]

well, the upside to this is now that you've voided your warranty to hell (or death), you might as well start modding the crap out of this thing. i wish i had a system like that which i wouldn't be afraid to crack open and void the warranty. i keep having bad luck with 360s and so i need that warranty. you should make a wooden one so next time it will leave a cool scorch mark on the wood.

now i really have the urge to mod something......and the closest thing to me is my iphone...crap!!

[fuzzy @ Oct 8th 2007 2:49AM]

I'm going to guess that maybe he was trying to induce an RRoD so he could send it in for warranty replacement.

[Kree @ Oct 8th 2007 7:32AM]

Now that you mention it, that actually makes a lot more sense than somehow managing to leave the thing on top of a stove.

[Andir3.0 @ Oct 8th 2007 10:36AM]

... Your trying to say that 360 owners have/make sense?

[HineyWipe @ Oct 8th 2007 3:08AM]

Look, a conductive range top. And they didn't know the 360 was shielded inside? Yeah, these are kids I want living near my house...not. Future Firemarshal Bobs...

[Kevin @ Oct 8th 2007 7:42AM]

If you're talking about the character Jim Carrey played on In Living Color, that was Fire Marshall Bill.

[wit's end @ Oct 8th 2007 3:40AM]

It is sad that a company would be liable for something without these instructions. The idiots who need this kind of clarification would never read them anyway.

[djmattyb @ Oct 8th 2007 7:56AM]

He should get his money back for that intercooler. It apparently didn't do it's job. He could bring his xbox back and demand a new one because the intercooler failed to keep the xbox cool.

[John @ Oct 8th 2007 9:16AM]

One day, my brother brought home an Intercooler for his 360. Said a "friend" gave it to him. Knowing that he had not actually spent any money on the forsaken equipment, I took it outside and promptly beat it into tiny plastic shards.

[Chris.L @ Oct 8th 2007 9:30AM]

I don't have any sympathy for this guy...

This is exactly why I have LIVE, if any of my friends want to play with me, they can play over LIVE because no one except me (and possibly MS, but I hope not) will ever touch my 360.

[Matt @ Oct 8th 2007 10:39AM]

Am I the ONLY one who is wondering how the hell he is gonna get the plastic off his stove?

[Carl M @ Oct 8th 2007 2:58PM]

Actually, that's pretty easy. Turn the stove on high (turn the ventilator fan on), wait for the plastic to burn to a crisp, then let it cool and scrape it off with a razor blade.

[The ZeroCorpse @ Oct 8th 2007 10:56AM]

As someone who grew up with a firefighter for a father, I have to say I'm constantly amazed at how many people out there PUT THINGS ON THEIR STOVE TOP and then TURN IT ON WITHOUT NOTICING THERE'S SOMETHING THERE.

Aren't the knobs for your stove RIGHT NEXT to the thing you've placed on the stove?

I mean, how could you turn a knob that makes intense heat and/or flames, and NOT realize that the place where this will occur is occupied by something that isn't a pot or pan full of what you intend to cook?

Houses burn down because of this sort of idiocy! If you're not going to cook it, then DON'T PUT IT ON THE STOVE, moron!

Can't wait to hear the one about the guy who put his on a barbecue grill, and then accidentally lit the fire under it...

[Carl @ Oct 8th 2007 12:17PM]

Not to mention that distinctive smell that plastic gives off as it's burning.

[Carl M @ Oct 8th 2007 3:01PM]

I've actually done something almost as stupid: I've turned on the wrong knob on the stove, thereby heating the wrong burner. Not so good when there's a cutting board sitting there! I suspect many accidents are due to something similar.

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 8th 2007 11:58AM]

stove burned your xbox360? I blame Vista!

[pcgecko85 @ Oct 8th 2007 12:19PM]

so the xbox was ON the stove in clear sight and someone turned the stove on? I don't believe anyone is that stupid......

[LosButchos @ Oct 8th 2007 1:23PM]

"I don't believe anyone is that stupid......"

I agree. Something on my stove would certainly stop me from turning it on.