* A customer who told engineers she had "washed away all her data" after putting a USB stick through a cycle in her washing machine
* A father who, while feeding his baby daughter, forgot about the USB stick in his top pocket. As he leant over the high chair, the device fell into a dish of apple puree
* A fisherman took his laptop in his rowing boat. Both he and the laptop went overboard, taking all his data to the bottom of a lake
* One wedding photographer overwrote the photos of one wedding with another event, and needed to escape the wrath of the newlyweds
* During an experiment, a scientist spilt acid on an external hard drive and burnt away his important data
* In the middle of an argument, a businessman threw a USB stick at his partner, with the device ending up in several pieces on the floor. Unfortunately it contained valuable company plans
* A fire destroyed an office, sparing only a few CDs which had melted to the inside of their cases
* A scientist was fed up with his hard drive squeaking, so drilled a hole through the casing and poured in oil, stopping both the squeaking and the hard drive
* To test the functionality of a parachute, a camera was dropped from a plane. The parachute failed and the camera shattered into several pieces but the device's memory stick was reassembled and the footage was recovered
* After discovering ants had taken up residence in his external hard drive, a photographer took the cover off and sprayed the interior with insect repellent. The ants were killed off and the data was eventually recovered