My wife is terribly afraid of snakes. When we first started dating,* her mother would put rubber snakes around her house to freak her out. I wouldn't do this today, but back then it made me a little mad so I took one of them and put it in a hanging pot above the stove. My wife's mom isn't very tall, she had to reach up to pull the pot down. She grabs it and without looking caries it to the sink and starts to fill it with water. This was a few days after I put the snake in there. All of a sudden I hear a scream, then a metallic bang and slashing of water as the pot falls in the sink. I had such mixed feelings about that.
*fixed the egregious error