Summertime means chilling at the ocean beach, eating mountains of ice cream, and getting gorgeously tanned. Unfortunately, some people found out that suntan lotion has a few side effects, as well. Mostly, bad luck and beach fun turned into awkward situations.
Jimmy Fallon, the host of the popular The Tonight Show, asked his viewers to share their biggest, worst beach blunders and funny accidents. “It’s Hashtags time! Tag a tweet with #BeachFail and then tell us about a funny or weird thing that happened to you at the beach. Could be on the show!” he tweeted. Check out this list of the beach activities turned sour from this hilarious Twitter thread, keep scrolling, upvote your favorite funny fails, and leave a comment about why you liked them. If you still crave some more amazing challenges, check out our other posts on Jimmy Pallon's Twitter posts here, here, and here.
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Sea, sand, and sun should be all about fun but they’re not, as these people’s responses to Fallon’s challenge will show you. Beware. Some of these stories will have you cringing with embarrassment. Others will have you wondering how something like this can be real.
One Twitter user admitted that a police helicopter spotlight found him making love to his wife on the beach. At night. While looking for a suspect. The officers told the couple to get a room. Another social media user told the Internet how a seagull stole her food and bikini top, leaving her topless in front of the entire beach. While a third person recounted how she swam in the dark in Florida, only to keep getting “nudged” by something in the water. She later found out it was shark mating season.
Now, you might be thinking that you’ll never swim again if there are vicious, man-eaters everywhere. But I’m here to let you know what to do in case you run into a shark! Shark season in Florida usually starts in January and ends in April. You should always swim in a group and avoid cloudy water; don’t swim with bleeding wounds, especially during or after twilight. You should also remove any jewelry or bright clothing, because shiny and high-contrast objects attract sharks. If you see a shark — get out of the water.
Shark expert Richard Peirce told CNN that during a shark encounter, you should stop panicking and maintain eye contact with the animal. If the shark’s attacking, you ought to make yourself as big as possible and fight tooth and nail. Sharks aren’t bears so don’t play dead. But if a shark is just passing by, you should make yourself seem as small as possible and slowly back away.
Florida has the most unprovoked shark attacks in the world. In 2018, there were 66 such attacks worldwide, 32 of which occurred in the United States. 16 of these happened in Florida.
A huge number of Americans go to the beach each year. According to the 2012 Statistical Abstract of the United States, a whopping 58.67 million people did so in 2010. That’s a fifth of the country! Just remember, if you’re in Florida, keep an eye out for shark fins in the water. Otherwise, your beach fail could be so bad, it might end up on Jimmy Fallon's Twitter thread.
Who gets nudged by anything in the ocean at night and stays in the water??
Well me and my mate(we're both Irish) were on a summer working visa in Ocean City, Maryland and decided to go bodyboarding(surfing without standing up). It was difficult with all the serious surfers around. Eventually they all left the water and we had the waves to ourselves. After an hour we got out. 2 surfers came over to us and asked where we were from. They called us the mad Irish and explained that everybody gets out of the water after 6 cos the sharks come in to the shallow waters in the evening. I didn't see any sharks or get nudged but we felt pretty stupid.
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Dude, Florida's abbreviation is DL, and everyone should know not to swim IN THE OCEAN at night
I’ve lived on the East coast of Florida for about 40years. This is absolutely true! Never go in the water at night. Actually, shouldn’t do it in the day either. Every single year without fail, there is a shark attack at Cocoa Beach during Spring Break. I won’t go in the ocean.
Sharks in florida don't have a mating season, the water is warm enough to breed year-round
Not sure I believe this one. You just stayed in the water after something kept nudging you, in the dark? Yeah, right.
There is nothing believable in this story other than flying from one place to another.
I'd check sharks' gestation period and start worrying about a month before the end....
I love sharks! I would pay (lots) to see sharks mate!!! :D
Jantzen put out a fishnet style in Australia in the 1960s and tested only the lining for shrinkage. Massive recall when the net part shrank rock hard when wet.
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So many of these are made up or "borrowed" from someone else it's beyond obvious...
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
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I was camping in a state park on the beach in Florida (where I'm from) with some friends of mine from Alabama. One of my friends got up really early before anyone else and decided he would go for a very early morning swim. Later mid-morning, the rest of us are finally awake and getting ready to go for a swim when we see Dan walking back totally nonchalant and calm. A little later we see the red flag is up which means dangerous under toes and the purple flag which means a lot of marine life in the water so we all opt out of swimming. Dan then is like, is that what those flags mean? Turns out, he went swimming alone, got sucked into an undertow, frantically tried to swim out of it without knowing how until he gave up out of exhaustion, thought this was his end of his life, drifted further and further out, then suddenly came out of the current hours later and after resting on shore, walked back to camp like nothing ever happened which is when we saw him. It's a scary story, but so hilario
- but so hilarious if you know his quite, very nonchalant personality. He told the whole story monotone and not at all like you would think one would tell when they thought they were about to die. Oh geesh.
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I was on holiday with my family when I was younger. My sister wanted me to put suncream on her back, so I wrote "poop" in suncream and pretended to rub it in. She had "poop" on her back the rest of the holiday!
I went to the beach once and had a pleasant day with my wife, we drunk some beer and played some games with the dogs and then went home, it was lovely.
Went camping with my new boyfriend, my brother, his wife and others at a lake located far from any town. While walking from the water to the beach, I managed to almost slice off two of my toes. Luckily, boyfriend got me to town pretty quickly, but I had to have all sorts of yucky things done to my foot and get a tetanus shot. Boyfriend still stuck around!
I have the perfect one from my husband! When he was in college he had not sense of color coordination for clothes. His sister told me the story of when they went to the beach as a family day and my husband would meet them there. Suddenly sister hears a kid say, "mommy, look at that naked man walking on the beach!" Somehow sister knew it was my husband (her brother) but was hoping it wasn't. She turned around to see my husband walking towards her but he wasn't naked. He was just wearing all skin colored tan-ish clothes and against the sun and sand, he looked naked.,she was so embarrassed.
When I was 11, we went to visit my father who was working out of town in CT. We took the motel blanket to use as a beach blanket. I sat at the edge of it on the sand and lit a sparkler that I had. I minute later I hear, "Lady, your blanket's on fire". I'm 11, so when I hear 'lady', I think a grown woman and I looked around and didn't see anything. A few seconds later, "Lady, your blanket's on fire". Now I'm thinking, "What dumbass has their blanket on fire and doesn't know it." Few seconds later, "LADY! YOUR BLANKET'S ON FIRE!" So I turn around and see a blaze in the middle of the motel blanket. The sparkler must have done it. My father was not pleased. I have no idea if they got billed for the blanket or not.
I think that's just because the post order changes over time, so you might see "#3" and then see it again at a lower ranking.
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I went to Myrtle Beach once with a group of friends and had too much to drink. A man had caught a pretty big sea turtle and we were super excited. I ran up to him and asked to hold it, and he said sure. So I flipped it upside down like a baby, cradled it in my arms and then proceeded to accidently stick my finger in its mouth and got bit. Not to mention, we had been skinny dipping and I was naked with nothing but a towel wrapped around me. 😕
So many of these are made up or "borrowed" from someone else it's beyond obvious...
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
Load More Replies... I was camping in a state park on the beach in Florida (where I'm from) with some friends of mine from Alabama. One of my friends got up really early before anyone else and decided he would go for a very early morning swim. Later mid-morning, the rest of us are finally awake and getting ready to go for a swim when we see Dan walking back totally nonchalant and calm. A little later we see the red flag is up which means dangerous under toes and the purple flag which means a lot of marine life in the water so we all opt out of swimming. Dan then is like, is that what those flags mean? Turns out, he went swimming alone, got sucked into an undertow, frantically tried to swim out of it without knowing how until he gave up out of exhaustion, thought this was his end of his life, drifted further and further out, then suddenly came out of the current hours later and after resting on shore, walked back to camp like nothing ever happened which is when we saw him. It's a scary story, but so hilario
- but so hilarious if you know his quite, very nonchalant personality. He told the whole story monotone and not at all like you would think one would tell when they thought they were about to die. Oh geesh.
Load More Replies... I was on holiday with my family when I was younger. My sister wanted me to put suncream on her back, so I wrote "poop" in suncream and pretended to rub it in. She had "poop" on her back the rest of the holiday!
I went to the beach once and had a pleasant day with my wife, we drunk some beer and played some games with the dogs and then went home, it was lovely.
Went camping with my new boyfriend, my brother, his wife and others at a lake located far from any town. While walking from the water to the beach, I managed to almost slice off two of my toes. Luckily, boyfriend got me to town pretty quickly, but I had to have all sorts of yucky things done to my foot and get a tetanus shot. Boyfriend still stuck around!
I have the perfect one from my husband! When he was in college he had not sense of color coordination for clothes. His sister told me the story of when they went to the beach as a family day and my husband would meet them there. Suddenly sister hears a kid say, "mommy, look at that naked man walking on the beach!" Somehow sister knew it was my husband (her brother) but was hoping it wasn't. She turned around to see my husband walking towards her but he wasn't naked. He was just wearing all skin colored tan-ish clothes and against the sun and sand, he looked naked.,she was so embarrassed.
When I was 11, we went to visit my father who was working out of town in CT. We took the motel blanket to use as a beach blanket. I sat at the edge of it on the sand and lit a sparkler that I had. I minute later I hear, "Lady, your blanket's on fire". I'm 11, so when I hear 'lady', I think a grown woman and I looked around and didn't see anything. A few seconds later, "Lady, your blanket's on fire". Now I'm thinking, "What dumbass has their blanket on fire and doesn't know it." Few seconds later, "LADY! YOUR BLANKET'S ON FIRE!" So I turn around and see a blaze in the middle of the motel blanket. The sparkler must have done it. My father was not pleased. I have no idea if they got billed for the blanket or not.
I think that's just because the post order changes over time, so you might see "#3" and then see it again at a lower ranking.
Load More Replies... I went to Myrtle Beach once with a group of friends and had too much to drink. A man had caught a pretty big sea turtle and we were super excited. I ran up to him and asked to hold it, and he said sure. So I flipped it upside down like a baby, cradled it in my arms and then proceeded to accidently stick my finger in its mouth and got bit. Not to mention, we had been skinny dipping and I was naked with nothing but a towel wrapped around me. 😕
