I once did this accidentally on a client's machine when I was much younger and less careful. I think about it almost every time I run "rm -rf /[....]".
sometimes if i know i'm going to be removing a slash-something path I will intentionally not add the "-rf" until after typing the path lol. scarred for life
The issue was I was trying to hit <right shift> with my pinkie, so I could enter an uppercase character after the `/` (it was a mac). and instead of <right shift> I hit <enter>....
From then on, I always used <left shift> with `rm` commands 😆