That’s the text message I sent to Bonnie, with a picture of yet another shattered Insta360 One X. Unlike the previous four or five times I’ve dropped one of my Insta360 One X’s, though, there will be no resurrection for this one. It’s totally fucked.

It Was A Day Like Any Other

I was working in the garage today, as is my life now, and I wanted to get a shot of the workbench while I was working, but I didn’t want the Insta360 One X to be in my other camera’s frame. So, I laid it, attached to a selfie stick, on top of my open garage door. As I placed it there, I thought to myself, you’re going to forget it’s there when you shut the door. And I did.

I pushed the button, and the garage door tossed the Insta360 One X onto my driveway. It was such a stupid and preventable mistake, too. I shouldn’t have put it on top of the garage door. I’ve done this a million times before with all sorts of different objects. What makes this incident even stupider is that there was no reason for the camera to be up there when I shut the door anyway. The SD card filled up a while ago. Since I was going inside as soon as I was done painting the shelf, I figured I would take the camera in then. I should have taken it down when I noticed it was no longer recording.

Now it’s toast. It’s destruction was epic. I just wish one of the four cameras in the vicinity had caught it. The garage camera caught some of it.

So, I guess this is the perfect excuse to buy a new Insta360. Too bad I can’t afford one right now.