I went to a wedding in cyprus with my first camera i bought myself, i was a fuji f450, great little camera i loved it.
After the wedding i went out with friends with my trusty camera, go soooo drunk and fell over on the way back to teh villa, crawled up the gravel path and into bed.
When i got up the following morning, my pockets had collected the gravel as i was coming up the villa driveway, lens cap must have forced itself open and my pride and joy was scratched to death, although the lens cleaned up pretty well.
I got the grit out of the cap so that it opened and closed and all was well with the world, i got home, left the camera in the boot of the car after having my pics developed and it was stolen
Not a great tale but i didnt get another F450, wish i could though!