What is the worst thing that you have accidentally done to a reel?  I think the worst thing I have done is probobly spilled a can of Sprite on one of my baitcasters.  Remarkebly, I washed it off as soon as this happened and it still works just as well as all my other ones.  So what did you do?

I fell on my old mitchell 300 and broke the center shaft in two, other than that I try to be nice to my reels and hope that they are nice back.

I had a snapping turtle try and eat mine once and unfortunately he had a powerful enough bite to basically crush it.