OMG. My first job in a computer store...in 1992. I'll never forget this one customer... to remain anonymous here. But he forever came into the store with a broken computer for repair... only the repairs were NEVER normal. They were entirely physical issues. Keyboards smashed, broken monitors and even once he came in with his computer case so smashed up I'd swear he'd thrown it off a building into heavy traffic... and yet he ALWAYS claimed the damage came from some benign source. His cat jumped on his keyboard.. on in the case of the crushed case... "my lamp fell off my desk and landed on the tower"... In a year I believe he went through about $15,000 in physical repairs... This of course is when a 386 was 5 times as expensive as today's quad core beasties.
...once, I remember, he had completely disassembled his computer. Took everything out and then didn't know how to reassemble it. Literally, hard drives had no screws holding them in... the SCSI cable for his 1x!! CD rom drive was plugged directly into his MFM hard drive with the MFM cable which was about a gagillion pins short of covering all the scsi pins.. SIPPS were big in RAM then and he had one in correctly and one in backwards, both bent over touching other components (for those who don't know.. sipps were like SIMMS but they had little wires about 1/4" long that stuck into little holes in the ram "slot" instead of a "card" connector and they just kind of stuck straight up resting on the pins). Nothing had a power cable to it. His mother board power cable was forced on in reverse... and I'll never forget that he couldn't get the video card into a slot so he ripped the bracket right off it...along with a chunk of the card.. it was hilarious...
His excuse on that was.... "I don't know, I just turned it on this morning and it the power came on but nothing works..."
The only components we salvaged were the cd, hard drive and a Ad-Lib sound card...
That guy was crazy.