Posted by Ed:
My son wanted a Sony PSP video game device. He said “please please please, can I have a PSP?” I explained to him that he has not proven to be responsible enough to have such a device. He has a tenancy to leave things laying around and then losing them or damaging them. I told him that he would need to earn the money for it and ask for gift certificates from relatives. Over a brief time, he was able to acquire enough money to purchase a PSP and was very happy with it. He took it everywhere, even in the bathroom. On this particular Sunday in March, he had to use the restroom and perform the number 2. Normally he has a carrying case for his PSP, but on this day he decided to store it in his hooded sweatshirt pocket (you know the one with a whole on both sides to warm your hands.) As he stands up to wipe his nether regions, the PSP slips out of his pocket and all he heard was “ploop.” Ploop is the sound a PSP makes when it enters the soiled water of a toilet bowl.
My son comes out of the bathroom very distraught, and hands me a PSP that does not smell too good. As he tells me what happened, I immediately instruct him to take the battery out. The best thing to do is remove any possibility of power short circuiting the device. We dried it off and I told him that we will need to let it dry for a few days before we try to power it up again.
Tonight was the night to see if it would still work. It has been 3 days, and it was time to give it a try. He put the battery in and turned on the device. The familiar PSP logo appeared on the screen and he was ecstatic. “IT WORKS!” He yelled.
My son learned a couple things from this.
1. Always keep your electronics away from the toilet.
2. If your electronic device gets wet while the power is off, pull out the battery and let it dry.
March 15, 2007 at 1:33 pm
oh. I thought the lesson was:
3. When something goes ploop into the toilet, dig it out and take it to daddy.
Guess we all learn different things.
Btw, didn’t you drop something electrical into the toilet not so long ago? Who did you take it to?
#1,2 sound above sound like what I remember you saying you learned when that happened. hmmmm…. conincidence? hmmmmmm… I think not.
Who’s your daddy Ed?
March 15, 2007 at 1:38 pm
ROFL
March 15, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Like father like son. I dropped my mp3 player in a bucket of water (not a toilet) while washing my car. I took out the battery, let it dry out, and it still worked.
March 16, 2007 at 12:11 pm
My son was thrown in the pool with his phone in his pocket. I took the battery out and made him wait for a week. The screen had moisture behind it foe about a week after we powered it up, but it has worked perfectly.
BTW do you know how the manufactures know if you dropped your device in the water and are doing a warranty replacement request? If you open your mobile phone and look at the battery you, most likely will see a small white sticker with a red line through it. If it gets wet the line changes color. There is one inside the phone as well.
March 18, 2007 at 1:04 am
Well Leonard, I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t try the warranty claim with my phone! I was getting manicure and my then 13yo was using my cellphone to talk with her boyfriend. The conversation was so important that she had to continue it while using the toilet. Simultaneous with flushing, she reached for the phone and it fell in. She was absolutely white when she came out to tell me. I thought she meant it was lying in the toilet, but no…..it was gone! Or at least we thought it was. After we got home there was a call from the salon. They had to take the toilet loose and go into the drain pipe, where the phone had wedged and was blocking the drain! It had been submerged for quite some time by then and surrounded by who knows how much waste. I figured it was worthless, but drove over and picked up the phone. After a good drying out, a new battery was all it needed.