Good boys and girls don't leave their Xbox 360s on the stove
By Ryan Block 
posted Oct 8th 2007 1:32AM
posted Oct 8th 2007 1:32AM
P.S. -Additional gooey meltiness after the break.
[Thanks, Ty]
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And just as clever as the guy who left this on the stove!
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So wait, it still works?
Thats awesome!
rock hard dumbness! woot!!!
the ULTIMATE mod
yeah .. wrong side dammit
well, the big gaping hole has to have improved the cooling.
nice mod! i did that once to a basket of dirty clothes!!!
Not really, since there seems to be a big flat metal plate in the way.
but metal exchanges heat much easier than plastic!
Theres a huge amount of counter space next to the stove where they could have put the 360...
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.
Nobody ever said that 360 owners were logical...
Smooth the jagged edges, get a nice piece of plexy and some LEDs and nobody will ever know.. Just another modded 360
Let me guess. This guy also destroyed his TV with a Wiimote? Idiot.
wow you're clever
Should have thought to put it in the fridge, then it wouldn't get either kind of ring of death.
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..
Actually it says "Do not place the console or power supply near any heat sources, such as radiators, heat registers, STOVES, or amplifiers"
"Uh... those are speed holes... they make it go faster."-- shady car dealer on 'The Simpsons'
This looks like a promo for The Orange Box's Portal.
LOL! even I was thinking of portal
If at first you don't succeed, you fail.
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.
Um...if it has that 'breathe' design, how did it melt in the middle? Wouldn't the ends get scorched??
As if the thing didn't get hot enough on it's own...
Was beer involved? Or spiked Game Fuel?
Would game fuel even need to be spiked?
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.
I'm pretty sure the stove had nothing to do with it.
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!!
I'm going to guess that maybe he was trying to induce an RRoD so he could send it in for warranty replacement.
Now that you mention it, that actually makes a lot more sense than somehow managing to leave the thing on top of a stove.
... Your trying to say that 360 owners have/make sense?
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...
If you're talking about the character Jim Carrey played on In Living Color, that was Fire Marshall Bill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"dood, mom is gonna be pissed when she sees all this melted plastic on the stove. dood!"
Am I the ONLY one who is wondering how the hell he is gonna get the plastic off his stove?
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.
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...
Not to mention that distinctive smell that plastic gives off as it's burning.
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.
Hold on people? Whats wrong with intercoolers? I have used one since I got my 360 and no problems so far... In fact I know of a lot of people who have used the Intercooler with no problems at all... and no rings of death for that matter.
stove burned your xbox360? I blame Vista!
so the xbox was ON the stove in clear sight and someone turned the stove on? I don't believe anyone is that stupid......
"I don't believe anyone is that stupid......"
I agree. Something on my stove would certainly stop me from turning it on.
Unless you are a half wit, I believe the stove getting turned on was an accident. A lot of electric stoves can heat up with just a bump from, oh, say too many fat Halo idiots in the kitchen trying to hook the worthless thing up.
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Was this 360 plugged in when it got melted?!
HALO BATTLE WOUNDS!!!! PLASMA BLAST ON THE SIDE OF HIS XBOX .... HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
Looks like that Intercooler did JACK, hopefully he can get it returned for a working one.
...and thats the day i stopped smoking meth. must have been flying to have done something like that
haha now try doing that with a PS3 and see what happens!
You suddenly get the um... RRoD on the PS3? Yeah...
All i'm saying is the 360 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better then the PS3
Dud i just do get how you can be so fucking stupid
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I cant believe anyone is that stupid, really!
And to turn it on too?
WOW!
Now explain why the stove was on in the first place.
Not like you say "It's hot in here" and turn the stove on. And when plastic burns, doesn't it smell like crap, almost instantly?
and then he keeps his xbox 360 at the edge of the counter standing up. just like the anmimal abuse organization their should be a stop xbox 360 abuse organization that screens these morons and prevents them from purchasing a xbox or just about anything else
It's the iPhone's fault!
It wasnt sitting on the stove. It was sitting in his laptop, when all of a sudden the bat....
LoL i Think on that moment the intercooler has a lot of work to do hahahahahah
anyone notice in the last pic, one pant leg is longer than the other?
What morons! lol... they don't deserve expensive game consoles...