Protect documents from accidental deletion/modification by site administrator

Hi,
I have several documents in a SharePoint site that should never be modified/deleted (except under extraordinary circumstances), so I'd like to make sure that even when logged in as Site Administrator I can't delete/edit these documents accidentally (though
obviously I'd be able to grant myself permission to do so). I've tried just about every combination of permissions I can think of (at site collection, site, list and document level) but to no avail. Surely I'm missing something obvious?
The closest I've got is putting them in a library requiring check out and having them checked out to the system account, but that's far from ideal.
Thanks
Dylan

that's not easy thing you trying to achieve. One thing manage your recycle because if a document deleted from a user, its still recover able in 60 days or what ever setting you select.
here is if you want create a event reciever: http://www.the14folder.com/2011/07/20/prevent-accidental-deletion-sharepoint/
or in 2013 you can use Ediscovery feture.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163267.aspx
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