Flood: Servers and water don't mix, as you can see here. This basement server-room flooding happened after a local telecommunications company running fiber optic cable though the neighborhood hit a water main.

Flash Flood This September 2009 flash flood in Istanbul wiped out a quarter of Vodaphone Turkey's capacity. Watch it happen on a surveillance camera here. The amazing thing is that Nokia Siemens says it restored the lost capacity within 24 hours.

Foolishness You know what's worse than installing a server while standing on a wobbly chair? Installing a server while standing on a wobbly chair that's on wheels. Hat tip to ServerLift for this one and the next.

Gravity It doesn't take much to trash a $5,000 server. In this case: two guys, a server rack … and gravity.

Fate No matter how well you plan, sometimes fate simply decides to deal you a raw hand. That's what happens here when a fire extinguisher blows up, "tripping the emergency power shutdown valve and all fire alarms," according to the video's description on YouTube

More Fire: The best thing about this video is how the poor sysadmin, just seconds after having the bejeezus scared out of him by a fireball explosion, has to deal with the flood of text message telling him that the servers are down.