Included in the “miscellaneous pile of stuff” would probably be DVDs, games, and perhaps a number of other robot models.
Now, why he put that much stuff on an apparently weak shelf to begin with is beyond me, but whatever. Behold my haphazard disregard for logic in favor of a little bit of cartoonish humor. ;P
If he's anything like me, the shelf was weak but still strong enough to hold random junk and he either forgot or didn't care and proceeded to load it up with random junk hoping it wouldn't fall.
Last time that happened to me my warhammer figures got splattered while I was sleeping. Scared the crap out of me. XD
It's the loose shelf symptom. When you have a loose shelf you don't want to fix it but insist on using it, I had something similar but it was a keyboard drawer, kept using it even though it kept falling off, took me years to fix it, but this is my confirmation of the loose junk shelf
More than once actually >.>
Last time that happened to me my warhammer figures got splattered while I was sleeping. Scared the crap out of me. XD