When painting my son's bedroom, I picked up the gallon can of paint to pour more into the paint tray and gave it a shake before removing the lid. To my chagrin, the lid was not tapped down and came off followed by a lovely fountain of blue paint. Thank goodness it was a latex base, but it sure took some cleaning to come out of the carpet.
I dropped a bottle of Pepsi back when it was sold in large, glass bottles. While waiting in line at the store check-out, so I didn't need to clean it up but sure listened to an earful from the cashier about trying to carry too much. Nothing else I've dropped has exploded quite like that Pepsi.