Mistakes and accidents are unavoidable. They're part of our lives. But don't worry, this isn't an insurance ad. It's a piece on the subreddit ‘That Looked Expensive.’
It's an online community, where people share photos, gifs, and videos of mistakes, accidents, catastrophes, and disasters that cost a small fortune.
We're talking a supercar storage catching fire, children knocking over a $70K sculpture, and many more hilarious, er, I mean, costly mishaps. Continue scrolling to check them out and take a look at Bored Panda's earlier article on the subreddit after you're done, too!
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What Bird Brain Designed This?
When You Live In Svalbard, Norway And Forgot To Close The Window To The Home Office
When A 300k Wall Of Monitors Falls Over
Big Oof
Supercar Storage In Cheshire Burned Down...
80+ Mph Winds In Iowa Today
Nick Wylde Would Be Impressed
Remember That Bridge You Guys Built? We Need Another One
A Huge Boulder Crashed Into A House In Tyrol, Austria Today. Luckily, No One Was Injured
The Golden Ray. 4200 Cars In There. 14 Months Set Up To Start The Removal
Streetsweeper vs. Wooden Bridge
"Bridge is unsuitable for motorised vehicles." Yeah, that's a dumbass ...
Absolutely Smashing
The Ss Princess May Was A Steamship Built In 1888. The Ship Is Best Known For Grounding In 1910, Which Left The Ship Sticking Completely Out Of The Water. This Is One Of The Most Famous Shipwreck Photographs.
Rattlesnake Bite In The US
The Ocean Is On Fire In The Gulf Of Mexico After A Pipeline Ruptured
Not Entirely Sure How He Managed To Get The Helicopter On Its Side
Well...
Oil Rig Drifted To Shore
Due For An Alignment
Not As Expensive As Some Of The Stuff We See Here, But The Angle Of The Photo Is Great
40m$ To The Sea
50,000 Liters Wine Spill At Bodegas Vitivinos In Spain
A £1 Million ($1.4 Million) Lamborghini Based Bat-Mobile Got Into An Accident With A Renault Scenic
Ever Wonder How Strong A Bull Is?
Row, Row, Row Your... Engine
That's when you have a fire.. somebody call the water department..
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This looks like a flash flood situation, so it may have been on dry land until the water started rushing in—-and the crew jumped on the vehicle to avoid being swept away.
"Hey Boss? Good news is we found a water supply, now there is a bit of bad news...."
Must be a hipster fire department insisting on using only locally sourced water. Like any artisan, the fire can come to them if it wants service.
We currently have massive floods around the area I live in (luckily I live in downtown of a big city and am not affected at all - kinda surreal to know people dying in floods just outside the city and not seeing anything out of the ordinary looking out the window) with whole towns washed off the map. Friend works as a fire fighter and showed some pictures and videos, in the end they basically had to watch people get flushed away and abandon towns that still had residents around and couldn't do anything because they couldn't reach them - military and helicopters were dispatched, then nightfall came in. I can easily imagine something like this happening to some of the fire fighters.
With firemen just right now risking and in some cases losing their lifes trying to save people from the floods in my country (documented with fotos quite like this one, as these guys are presumably also in danger)- I really find it hard to cope with the jokes here to be honest
I'm so sorry this sort of calamity is happening in your area. It's both a good and bad thing about human nature that we joke about even the most traumatic events in order to cope. Please know that since we don't know the story behind the photo, it's best to hope that the crew and those they were called out to assist escaped unharmed.
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My house is on fire. What do you mean the fire department is in the river.
I swear Chief we were just conducting a water rescue drill......C shift screwed up
Due to budget cuts, the town of Riverside couldn't afford a fireboat for their department. After discovering that firetrucks don't float, they changed their minds.
There is some severe flooding in western Germany rn and a youtube video is circulating of a guy happily driving through almost hip-deep water and making fun of the car in front of him for floating - while driving directly into car-floating deep water. He literally says "Haw-haw, look, that guy is floating! (seconds later) Great, now I am floating!"
Guy Hopped A Curb And Totaled 12 New Chevrolet's
There Will Be Meetings
I Can Only Imagine How Difficult This Was To Clean Up/Replace 100 Years Ago
Anyone Missing A Boat?
So...you're Not Open Today?
Yesterday A Woman Who Decided To Use A Right Turn As An Opportunity To Do A Spontaneous U Turn, Hit My Dad’s Stingray. He’s Had It Since I Was A Baby
Not Braking And Entering
Let Me Get My Cable Finder
A Young Couple Accidentally Vandalized A $500,000 Painting After Believing Art Supplies Near The Artwork Were Intended For Audience Participation
Who leaves art supplies out unsupervised in reach of the public??? In a a gallery????
How To Not Go Fishing
That's A Lot Of Damage
Roads Costs $$$
It Was Glued
Tree vs. Suv: Tree Wins
Slipped In The Shower, Landed On The Toilet
Mclaren Paired With The Unskilled Driver
Most supercars seem to be owned by people who underestimate what happens when they floor it, especially with cold tyres.
Csx Coal Train Derailment
Things Got A Little Out Of Hand While Cooking Breakfast Yesterday
What Happens When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf
Part Of A Boeing 777 Engine Fell Off While Flying And Landed In A Yard
3 Alarm Fire In Salt Lake City. New Apartments Under Construction Burned Up, Took 12 Businesses With It Including A Porsche Dealership. 65 Firefighters Attended. No Injuries Or Deaths. Still Watering Down The Hotspots Tonight
I Think They Need A Bigger Boat
The captain did everything right by steering head-on into the wave, it was just too large.
Roughly 600 Plates Broken
1, 2... 1, 2...
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The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
The lesson is that you don't buy a McLaren because even when you know ow to handle it, someone else will crash into it. Or when you store it safe the whole place will burn down. So you see the McLaren, you don't buy and just walk away and buy yourself a bloody Kia for 1% of the price of a McLaren
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There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
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I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
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Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg 
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
What I've learned is never buy a McLaren and having a fancy car basically means it's going to start on fire or get me into an accident. I'll stick with my Honda, thank you very much!
the mclarens. its always the mclarens. sometimes porches, almost always the mclarens. that is my take-away from this post. dont have a mclaren.
#7...those straight-line Iowa winds. tore the roof off a building I worked in and didn't have to work for a week because of it. best part was that I got paid. the early 00's were great for that kind of thing with a very large company. that was also the straight-line winds that sent a silo roof flying a mile and landed on a car. it wasn't totaled though just took off the back bumper. it was an almost perfect landing.
I'm sorry for mother nature and sorry for the people who lost loved ones. This was so depressing to see but like a car accident I couldn't stop watching. I'm embarrassed about myself.
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Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page. https://doggonehappytraining.com
The type of person that has the money and would want a McLaren/Lambo/Ferrari is also the type of person to drive it like an asshole and not care about the cost of destroying it.
None of this even comes close to the most expensive accident in history, the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Nor the most expensive conflict in history, World War II. Though these are at least possible to laugh about, as opposed to being wide-scale tragedies highlighting the failure of humanity as a species...
World Wars aren't small failures with relatively big impacts. Their dynamics are immense and hardly start at one specific point in time. They are huge mistakes with huge impacts. Chernobyl was enormous and also not just one person making one mistake. There were structural problems in understanding what the huck they were doing. This list is mostly about stupid small mistakes that end up with a big price tag.
Load More Replies... The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
The lesson is that you don't buy a McLaren because even when you know ow to handle it, someone else will crash into it. Or when you store it safe the whole place will burn down. So you see the McLaren, you don't buy and just walk away and buy yourself a bloody Kia for 1% of the price of a McLaren
Load More Replies... There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
Load More Replies... I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
Load More Replies... Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
What I've learned is never buy a McLaren and having a fancy car basically means it's going to start on fire or get me into an accident. I'll stick with my Honda, thank you very much!
the mclarens. its always the mclarens. sometimes porches, almost always the mclarens. that is my take-away from this post. dont have a mclaren.
#7...those straight-line Iowa winds. tore the roof off a building I worked in and didn't have to work for a week because of it. best part was that I got paid. the early 00's were great for that kind of thing with a very large company. that was also the straight-line winds that sent a silo roof flying a mile and landed on a car. it wasn't totaled though just took off the back bumper. it was an almost perfect landing.
I'm sorry for mother nature and sorry for the people who lost loved ones. This was so depressing to see but like a car accident I couldn't stop watching. I'm embarrassed about myself.
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page.
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page. https://doggonehappytraining.com
The type of person that has the money and would want a McLaren/Lambo/Ferrari is also the type of person to drive it like an asshole and not care about the cost of destroying it.
None of this even comes close to the most expensive accident in history, the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Nor the most expensive conflict in history, World War II. Though these are at least possible to laugh about, as opposed to being wide-scale tragedies highlighting the failure of humanity as a species...
World Wars aren't small failures with relatively big impacts. Their dynamics are immense and hardly start at one specific point in time. They are huge mistakes with huge impacts. Chernobyl was enormous and also not just one person making one mistake. There were structural problems in understanding what the huck they were doing. This list is mostly about stupid small mistakes that end up with a big price tag.
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