sometimes I run into this picture of what happened to my old work laptop, and I have to share the picture again--
I left it on top of my car, it sat on there until I was doing 130kmh / 80mph, then flew off, hit a tree, snapped in two, laid there all night and half the next day in the melting snow because I couldn't find it, and was finally brought back to me by a guard who found it while doing a patrol nearby.
Immediately after it was given back, I connected the power cable and turned it on: