Played a gig in one of the local clubs around here and as it was our first gig there I wanted everything to run smoothly. Which it was for a good hour and a half or so, place was absolutely bumpin!
Then out of nowhere some drunk girl comes up and tries to put a drink up on the front of the booth on this tiny wooden ledge. Before either me or my mate can shout at her to move it, she just tips it straight over on top of my mates Xponent, laptop, headphones and the clubs mixer! Everything cut instantly, I mean EVERYTHING and people started turning around giving us that kind of WTF?! look. Looked like we had messed up ourselves as the girl had run off, which wasn't cool.
All the circuits in the Xponent got soaked but we managed to shake most of the liquid out in the end, still nothing but crackle and static from the master outs though.
The funny thing is that the club normally have a plexiglass shield around the booth but that had been smashed the night before!
So I guess the question is how do you guys protect your gear from this kind of thing when you gig, it was an absolute horror show I just hope it never ever happens again!? Anyone got an ingenious ways of avoiding it?

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