How to explode a hard drive

I know this isn't strictly tech, but I felt it's the best place for it.

People talk (on 4chan and such places) of raids by the police on their house to recover hard drives due to suspicions of CP or of pirated content.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a case where someone actually managed to destroy their Hard Drive, either remotley or before anyone could get to it, or any stories of the sort.
Could it hypothetically be fitted with some sort of... remote water filling thing?
Post anything relevant please.

What if you could write the disk driver for your disk drive such that the computer only read/write the last platter when you input a password? If you did it right i'd be pretty hard to figure out what was going on.