Much the same with our cars, a second, an inch, or one wrong move can change your life forever. Be safe.
On this day in 1993 I did about 2.5 Million Dollars worth of damage, not counting the trees. I'm still a little sore, but glad to be alive. Every year, I have to pull out the old pictures and have a look before the end of the day and thank God that nobody was killed. Just thought I'd share.
Damn...
I'm terribly sorry but there are insufficient cussword autocorrect substitutes on the board to properly convey the amount of oh sweet holy berkeleying e36m3 required to even deal with that pic...
Sweet Jeezus. Glad you're alive. How fast were those trees going?
I thought this was going to turn into a competition, but I can’t touch that opening. Ouch.
The Sikorsky CrashHawk lives up to its nickname. Glad she didn't take you with her when she attempted suicide.
In reply to AAZCD :
Ouch! I’m rather impressed by how intact it seems to be, despite the rotor blades coming completely detached.
In reply to AAZCD :
On the bright side, you can play one heck of a game of “two truths and a lie.”
Wow...glad your still with us. Where was that?
I don’t think you will be topped in this thread. I can’t even come close.
I am thinking that probably did not buff out.
In reply to AAZCD :
Can't touch that opener.
Like they say " any landing you walk away from". That was a bit hard on the landing gear though.
I see the problem, the blades fell off your rotor
It's gonna take a pretty serious C&C Mustang wipe out to top that. 
$4.2 mil. 
Edit: doing some fact checking, I think my dyslexia got me and this was actually just $2.4 mil.
What is our definition of "broke"? I've rendered a $4-5M machine unuseable before, but it was a 3 minute procedure to fix it.
Otherwise probably about $2k.
This is a little different, but back in the 90s when I was doing computer surplus full time, we got in multiple pallets of IBM 5150s, the original 5-slot PC from 1981. In the 90s those were completely worthless. We scrapped them all - took out the mainboards and sold them for electronic scrap, took apart the case and sold the steel scrap, etc. Probably got a $5-$10/ea out of them. The monitors we recycled unless they were EGA in which case we sold them. We probably went through 1000 of them or so. Fast forward to 2019 and a complete running setup is worth $1300 or so. I intentionally tore apart and scrapped over a million dollars worth of computers.
Granted, they wouldn't be worth $1300 if it wasn't for people like me tearing most of them apart. And storing 1000 computers for 25 years would have been a little cost prohibitive. And selling 1000 of them now would take years upon years and probably depress the market due to oversupply. But it still kinda hurts to think about.
Whoa.
That's intense. Glad you survived.
I, uh...I once copied some files across the network on a network that happened to be slow enough to where the whole thing got saturated, which caused some important networked cameras to go down, which caused some important processes to get botched due to not being able to tell what was going on, which caused thousands of dollars of lost productivity...but it did get them to upgrade the network eventually
I tore the bead on a new 315/30-18 nt01 mounting it with an unfamiliar tire machine.
I mean, it is similar to the op...
op: were you amazingly lucky like me and able to find the same thing on craigslist in near-new condition for $60?
The fact that you can look back on it with a bit of levity says a lot about character.
Blackhawk Down! Can you at least blame the Somali warlords? It looks a bit like Ft. Bragg in the pics but the timeframe is right.....
In reply to JohnInKansas :
OK... we need some background here.
ME: Reads thread title, cracks knuckles "Oh, I got this"
ME: Opens Thread
ME: RETREAT! 
OP: Glad you're still with us.
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