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“That Looked Expensive”: People Share 35 Fails And Accidents That Cost A Small Fortune (New Pics)
From a crunching sound when we drop our phones on accident, to the screeching of tires and a crash, there are sounds that induce a physiological feeling of dread. But when it dissipates, and if it's not our items that are damaged, our curiosity often gets the better of us and we want to see just what sort of destruction happened.
The “That Looked Expensive” online group gathers examples from all over the world where failures, misfortune, and accidents befell costly-looking items. So regardless of whether you are cringing or experiencing a deep degree of schadenfreude, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own stories below.
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#1
A London Pub That Was Demolished And Recreated
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#2
Here We See A Wild Transport Vessel Showing Off His Tail To Attract A Female Vessel
#3
Maybe You're Having A Bad Day, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Having A "Tell Your Boss You Set Off The Fire Suppression System At The Minnesota National Guard Hangar And Foamed All 10 Aircraft." Kinda Bad Day...
#4
The Poor Little Thing Just Wanted A Belly Rub
#5
April 28, 1988: The Roof Of An Aloha Airlines Jet Ripped Off In Mid-Air At 24,000 Feet, But The Plane Still Managed To Land Safely. One Stewardess Was Sucked Out Of The Plane. Her Body Was Never Found
#6
Low On Magenta. Again
#7
I Humbly Request This Picture To Be Used As The Subreddit Image. The Montparnasse Derailment - 1895
#8
The M Stands For Magnetic
#9
Just A Little Kiss
#10
Sorry I Won't Make It In To Work Today Boss, My Train Missed My Station
#11
Audis Can't Pole Vault
#12
Neighbor Having Dead Tree Cut Down... Contractor Made A Little Mistake
#13
Oven Fell On A Red Hot Ferrari
#14
Yes Sir, I Can Confirm That Your Package Is Currently En-Route On A Container Ship
#15
Well, Not One But Two
#16
Paint Spill In A Maserati
#18
Lamborghini Wrecked In Crash Just 20 Minutes After Purchase
#19
The Gaziantep Castle In Turkey Collapsed After The Recent Earthquake
#20
I'm Sorry Sir, But That Spot Is Normally Reserved For The Boss's Corvette Stingray
#21
Someone Forgot To Drip The Faucet
Onion Patch Petunia 3 years ago
Okay Joe we've got nearly 2 hours before the game. If we just work together . . .
#22
73-Year Old Woman Confuses Accelerator With The Brakes In Australia
#23
In 2005, A U.S. Navy Submarine Ran Into A Mountain And Made It Back On Its Own
#24
3/14/23 Miller Hill Mall (Duluth, Mn) Roof Collapse Due To Snow
#25
This Is What's Left Of The Building I Used To Live In Until Last Friday. Lille, France
#26
Singapore Airlines Sq368 On Fire After Emergency Landing
#27
Instant Infinity Pool
Scott Rackley 3 years ago
There's a lot of this on the west coast of the US, it's just vanity draining into the ocean.
#29
Roro Ferry Plows Into Anchored Cargo Vessel. Officer On Duty "Swears" He Wasn't Asleep At The Wheel
#30
Aftermath Of A Trash Truck Falling Onto Train Tracks And Getting Sideswiped By An Ice High Speed Train At Lambrecht, Germany (17th Of August 2010)
#31
Just Got A Brand New Grove At Work! Annnnnnndd It’s Gone. Can’t Believe This Guy Has A License!
#32
Someone Left A Grill On In The Parking Lot At The Dolphins-Patriots Game
#33
Vet On Fire. Seen In Dallas Today 8/17/2022
#34
That's A Big Explosion
#35
How Fast Do You Have To Go For That To Happen
#36
Henceforth This Jack Will Be Known As 'Vlad'
#37
Driving Into A Multistory? No Problemo
#38
The Gas Leaks On The Nord Stream 1 And 2 Gas Pipelines In The Baltic Sea
#39
At Least It Didn't Derail
#40
Dinner Cruise In Paris Collides Into A Bridge While Passengers Aboard Are Dining
#41
Great-Grandfather Was An Airmail Pilot, Found These Photos With His Stuff
ChariotLee 3 years ago
Meaning we have always scrambled to document our fellow human's failures with gleeful aplomb.
#42
NYC Parking Garage Collapses. Drivers Trapped
#43
A Second Norfolk Southern Train Derails In Ohio, Just A Month After The East Palestine Derailment
#44
Tank Barrel Miss Fire
#45
We Got Our First Real Snow In Denver Last Night
#46
Someone Didn't Properly Tighten Their Lugs
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Click the source link to watch the video on this one if you want to gain an entirely new fear. Also everyone walked away with just minor injuries so maybe look into what the victim was driving if you need a new car!
#47
Don't Taxi Your F-16 Behind A B-1 Doing A Full Power Engine Test
#48
A Tram And Its Heavy-Duty Transporter Fell Into A Ditch In Germany. Estimated Loss Is Around 2.5 Million
#49
The City Started Work On Our Neighborhood Pond…
FakeOptimist 3 years ago
Typo. I think you mean : "The city started work IN our neighborhood pond."
#50
That Will Buff Out
#51
Truck Lifted Too High To See The Porsche In Front Of Him
#52
Saw This Ferrari With A Parking Ticket On My Lunch Break, By 5:00 Someone Had Smashed In The Windscreen
#53
$1.5 Million Floating Home Prototype Sinks Into The Water Just As It’s Unveiled
Onion Patch Petunia 3 years ago
Quick change the release to a new underwater home for discriminating tenants
#54
Ferrari Enzo ($2.5 Million) Crashed By Delivery Driver Enroute To New Owner!
#55
UPS Plane Cuts Corner And Gets Stuck In The Mud At The Birmingham Airport... They Are Still Trying To Get It Out! 😂
#56
To Transport Glass In An Elevator
#57
First Day On The Job?
#58
A Car Belonging To A Chinese Diplomat Rammed The Berlin Fire Department's New Electric Fire Truck
#59
Blowing Up 15 Empty Condos At Once Due To Abandoned Housing Development
#60
Wind Last Night Blew Over The Wood Framing Just Enough For The Bricks To Collapse!
#61
Refuel Mishap With A C-141 Starlifter. (Tanks Overpressurised)
#62
Borderline Abusive
#63
Massive Auqadome In Berlin Cotaining Over 1500 Fish Exploded
#64
Doesn’t Really Get Much Worse Than This…
#65
Crashed F-35c That Fell Off Uss Carl Vinson Flight Deck Into South China Sea
#66
A 4 Lane Highway Almost Completely Stopped Because Of This
#67
House Flooded By Torrential Rain
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2: The Chocolate Comes Home to You
#68
Parking Near An Intersection + Huge Truck + Small Streets
#69
Someone Hit My Pump Today At Work. No Injuries
#70
Something Leaking?
#71
Car Garage Collapse
#72
DHL Boeing 757 Cargo Jet Breaking Into Two After Skidding Off The Runway
#73
2 Lamborghinis Crashed After Street Race, Black One Was On Fire In Front Of Fire Station
#74
Trying To Do A Cool Skid Into The Driveway
#75
Former $45k Sculpture
Spencer's slave 3 years ago
People actually bid for and bought the shards. The shards sold for more than the advertised price of the original undamaged glass balloon sculpture. I'm seriously considering doing something similar with my wine glass so I can buy a house.
#76
A Station Worker In Finland Made A Mistake By Setting The Fuel Price To 0.014 Euro Per Liter. Dude Immediately Took Advantage Of The Mistake And Filled The Canister With 1000 Liters Of Fuel
Sherry Moore 3 years ago
This happened where I worked the owner set the mid-grade to 5 cents, when I noticed I blocked the pump called him got permission to fill my tank and changed it back to the correct price
#77
Dayum!!
Geoffrey Scott 3 years ago
I've seen a few of these. Wind Generators are crazy long, not conducive to most turns when hauling by truck
#78
Nice Car
George Nichols 3 years ago
The rear bumper ended up coming right off. The driver didn't even notice it. More cash than brains.
#79
I’d Google It, But My Fiber Is Out ATM
#80
Idiot In A Shelby Gets Stuck In Fresh Cement
Onion Patch Petunia 3 years ago
Okay anybody can get stuck but did you have to leave it there for hours
#81
Executive 747 Scrapped With 29 Flight Hours On It
#82
2 Million Dollar Rimac Nevera Rear Ended By Motorcycle On The Pch About A Week Ago
#83
Protesters Mess With Ferraris In Paris
#84
Truck Illegally Crosses Double Yellow (To A Pullout) And Clips The Front Of A New 992 Gt3, Totaling It
#85
Was It Worth It To Try And Save Yourself 3 Seconds Dumbass?
#86
Guy Films The Delivery Of His New Audi
#87
Unsecured Traffic Light
#88
Hyundai I40 Gets Into Accident With An Expensive Car
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Zane Lumagrowl 3 years ago
I work in insurance, and I have such a love hate relationship with pics like these... On one hand I love the schadenfreude, on the other hand I just hope everyone's properly covered (or even if some of this stuff can even be insured against)
Lord of the laserprinter. 3 years ago
For somethings you can’t get insurance. You have to trust your abilities
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William Teach 3 years ago
Very long story short, the alarm company for the very, very, very large communications company I worked for really messed up back around 2000. By the end of the week we contracted with another alarm company for the operations of our division, something like 50+ stores and operations centers. Then the rest of the wireless division across the country. Then the wireline operations. How many millions a year did that cost per year?
Zane Lumagrowl 3 years ago
I work in insurance, and I have such a love hate relationship with pics like these... On one hand I love the schadenfreude, on the other hand I just hope everyone's properly covered (or even if some of this stuff can even be insured against)
Lord of the laserprinter. 3 years ago
For somethings you can’t get insurance. You have to trust your abilities
Load More Replies... William Teach 3 years ago
Very long story short, the alarm company for the very, very, very large communications company I worked for really messed up back around 2000. By the end of the week we contracted with another alarm company for the operations of our division, something like 50+ stores and operations centers. Then the rest of the wireless division across the country. Then the wireline operations. How many millions a year did that cost per year?
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