“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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A London Pub That Was Demolished And Recreated
And for some reason a large number of people thought elected a real estate developer President. Never forget 2016.
Load More Replies...There's another pub being rebuilt, stone by stone, beam by beam in the UK. Developers bought it, ignored the historic grade listing and demolished it thinking nobody would notice. An 800 year old pub. That was the local pub for 800 years. On the main road through the village. For 800 years.
And my friend's family had to get a permit to chop down a tree on their protected property that's not even that old. The house and grounds are about 100yr and the tree they could prove was only 50 so the bugger getting into their foundation was not protected by the keep same law
Load More Replies...And the fückers tried to squirm their way out of the rebuild and delayed it even longer by trying to include flats within the pub. They tore it down knowing they couldn’t in hopes to build flats and a bar. They’re extra slimy. There’s a full Wikipedia on it.
Link for lazy people like me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Tavern
Load More Replies...Back in my hometown, apprently the council don't give a f*ck about history - despite protests against it and someone offering to buy and restore the property to original specs and use, they have approved plans to build a two storey modern extension onto a mid 18th century pub, hollow it out, and convert it into modern minimalist flats; retaining none of the original features or layout. Can we get those guys who grrd at this down to my hometown to grr at them?
In America they would still be going through the courts about it. Delay delay delay.
No, here in America, they would get together with other developers, form a SuperPac, throw a metric f**k-ton of money at the Republican Party, and then buy themselves entire Circuits of friendly courts, then ignore precedent, case law, decency, honor, and manufacture a ruling out of whole cloth using an archaic law from the 19th century. Or just bulls**t their way into it, like the recent ruling striking down Roe v Wade.
Load More Replies...I cannot really guess how much the rebuilding would cost the developers, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was about 20 times the price of normal house of the same size
Here We See A Wild Transport Vessel Showing Off His Tail To Attract A Female Vessel
These containers do not stay intact. The beaches of the northern islands in the Dutch Waddensea, water and seafloor included, were completely covered with cheap stuff made in east asia, from Ikea-stools to the plastic pipes of soap-pumps. And it still keeps coming. Google container ship Zoe, who lost 300 containers. https://www.waddensea-worldheritage.org/news/tuesday-storm-halts-clean-efforts-lost-containers
Is this ship aground? Seems weird to see it fully loaded yet sitting so high in the water you can see the rudder. I was kind of shocked the day I learned how common it is for them to lose cargo containers. "According to a World Shipping Council (WSC) report, up to 1,382 sea containers are lost at sea each year. "
Might be a shipment of empty boxes. The amount of lost containers is quite small compared to the total amount shipped... But the impact is big... The friendly floaters and the Lego beaches in the UK are a seemingly 'fun' result ...
Load More Replies...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...
YOU get cancer, and YOU get cancer, everybody gets cancer!!!
Load More Replies...Back a few years ago, in Israel, during the spring floods, a commander didn't properly secure his hangars, and move his jets to higher ground. Many f16's were damaged, 3 had to be scrapped. https://www.timesofisrael.com/air-force-officer-admits-mistake-in-not-moving-jets-above-ground-during-flood/
Let ne guess, the commander was then promoted?
Load More Replies...No, I accidentally activated the security alarm at our state office that was connected to our local police department. Turned out to be a good thing as the wrong phone was connected to the PD (the number they called went to the phone OUTSIDE the security door where the perp could have answered to "clear" the need for PD to come. Then our office manager, who answered the phone, gave the wrong answer to the security password & our security personnel who DID know the password was out for the day!! Didn't get fired 'cuz I inadvertently showed problems in our office security in a STATE agency!! (Yes, cops were swarming outside as a precaution.)
Cue the Enterprise rising heroically above the ether, come to save the day...Duh-da-da-da-da-du-uh, da-da-da-DA...
Seeing someone else's misfortune can be a mixed bag. Yes, we are sympathetic creatures as humans, blessed (or cursed) with the ability to empathize with others. But deep down, sometimes another struggle is just funny. After all, America's Funniest Home Videos wouldn’t be running since 1989 if we didn’t enjoy seeing another’s accidents. The Germans, as always, have a word for this, schadenfreude, or the feeling of joy (freude) at seeing someone fail/be harmed (schaden).
Unfortunately, scientists are here to ruin the fun. People with low self-esteem are more likely to experience schadenfreude, as they feel it brings others down to their level. Similarly, people with high degrees of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy are more likely to feel it as well, as they tend to “struggle” with feeling empathy towards others. This is not to say that looking at these fails makes you a bad person, rather, that the impulse might just not be that benign at heart.
The Poor Little Thing Just Wanted A Belly Rub
Rolled down an incline which was too steep to traverse.
Load More Replies...*gives belly rubs* Who’s a good vehicle? It’s you!
Load More Replies...This happens with these big trucks in open-mining scenarios more often than one might think. The only one with bragging rights is the crane operator who gets the privilege of uprighting the beast.
"Instinctively, the oversized construction vehicle submits by presenting its vulnerable underbelly."
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
Her death was the direct result of the airline failing to adhere to strict maintenance procedures and technical service bulletins from Boeing regarding inspections for corrosion and fatigue. The airframe was also beyond its flight-cycle design life, and should have been subject to even more rigorous inspection than usual.
Load More Replies...That's why you should wear your seat belts at all times in a plane!
She was taking care of everyone else, that's why she wasn't buckled during the moment of decompression.
Load More Replies...I can't believe they landed this 737... the pilots are heroes. I feel awful for the stewardess and her family... but this was still masterful flying in the face of despair.
I read a quote somewhere - maybe even here - that airline pilots are vastly overpaid for the vast majority of the time, and on occasions like this, vastly underpaid. I'm always amazed at what pilots can do under the most dire of circumstances, and how they can improvise to manoeuvre a plane in ways that are very non-standard.
Load More Replies...I remember this one. Surreal! I bet the pilot was really careful with the stick at landing.
just a little bit… a couple of biscuits made them feel better /j
Load More Replies...that is terrifying new fear unlocked sending love to the stewardess and her family
They have put higher standards on looking for metal fatigue on high stress, short hop flights bc of this... I know that's only some consolation, and I feel bad for the stewardess' family too; it's a miracle that anyone survived... great pilots.
Load More Replies...Low On Magenta. Again
Whoever cleans that up will definitely get some wings.
Load More Replies...It was a potential environmental nightmare. They had to clean it up fast before it got into the water, which would have happened well before that much ink dried.
Load More Replies...This was in my home town! https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/ink-spillage-looks-like-scene-from-art-attack-203993/
i have the urge to jump in it whilst wearing white clothes
One doesn’t have to look far to find other, ample examples of content based on “fails.” As far back as 2008, internet pages were building and finding content revolving around misfortune, accidents, slips of the tongue, and other mistakes. While sometimes the content does seem cruel, examples like “That Looked Expensive” have mass appeal because the victims tend to be wealthy. A crashed sports car sucks, but if one can afford it, it might not feel as bad.
I Humbly Request This Picture To Be Used As The Subreddit Image. The Montparnasse Derailment - 1895
You mean to say, "Gordon, you've been a very naughty engine." (Gordon is the big train that bullies Thomas. Thomas' show recreated this scene.)
Load More Replies...James' attempt to prove he was the fastest engine on Sodor ended in disaster
There's a wonderful 3D movie called Hugo that takes place in the Gare Montparnasse railway station. The movie is in the wrong time period (1930's), but they incorporated this accident into ir. Best use of 3D effects ever!
Wasn’t it a woman who was passing underneath? No one on the train died.
Load More Replies...Why mention Ferris? Was someone singing "danka train"?
Load More Replies...looks like harry potter lol just realized someone said that already
The M Stands For Magnetic
That's a couple million dollar mistake. Someone is getting fired.
The original poster said that someone was on the bed. Someone is definitely getting fired.
Load More Replies...My only hope is that this was done just before decommissioning it, as a training video… 🙏🏾
I just hope nobody was strapped onto the strecher...
Load More Replies...some idiot brazilian lawyer a month or so back refused to put his gun away when taking his mom to the hospital, and when the machine started it triggered the gun and got shot in the gut!
This is why I'm terrified of MRI machines, I heard this story of someone being inside one and it pulled some metal cannister or something in and decapitated them. I've since had MRI's done, but they're still unsettling to me. The sound of the coldhead sounding like a heartbeat doesn't help. xD
"Michael Colombini, 6, died during an MRI scan at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull." 7/28/2001
Load More Replies...Just A Little Kiss
I mean they both look intact so other than potential minor injuries from using escape slides (happens almost every time they're deployed that at least one person will hurt themselves) there's no reason they shouldn't be.
Load More Replies...The funniest thing about this is the crowd. Everyone standing around wondering who they can blame.
There is also a degree of curiosity in seeing expensive things break. Most of us are not around supercars, yachts, and construction equipment, so seeing what it looks like broken down or on fire has a sort of novel appeal. This is an impulse older than internet memes. For example, US soldiers in World War Two sometimes expressed a fascination with destruction. They would enjoy exploring the burnt-our wrecks of vehicles and bombed cities.
Sorry I Won't Make It In To Work Today Boss, My Train Missed My Station
From the perspective of the owner of the house.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.... I mean good morning
Load More Replies...This happend in Sweden, I think it was a cleaner that accidently pulled a lever or something. Was on the news a few years back.
Stockholm on January 15th 2013: a cleaner boarded the train. All she did was close the doors (it was in the middle of winter, so quite cold outside). This started the engine and since the brakes weren't engaged (which they should have been), the train started rolling, faster and faster until it derailed and crashed into the house. The tenant in the flat got a lucky escape but the young cleaner got badly hurt. While she lay sedated in hospital the company (Arriva) running the trains accused her of stealing the train, but technical finds revealed that several safety measures had not been applied.
Load More Replies...Imagine coming back from the kitchen, in your pyjamas, with a cup of coffee in your hand, and right as you're about to enter the living room a train car at full speed kool-aid-mans its way in through your wall.
Audis Can't Pole Vault
I helped out at an accident once. The wooden pole went through the radiator and then the firewall then under the passenger's seat and out the back. It went right between the passenger's legs. All she got was a gashed toe. One lucky lady.
Tornado picked it up is my guess! Then it got flung at however many miles/kilometers per hour right into that poor person's car.
Load More Replies...Honestly boss, I was just sitting there and the tree kept coming and coming and wouldn't stop
I cant even laugh... This is pure nightmare fuel for me. Terrified of this type of thing which is why I stay away from any truck or work van or anything carrying lumber
I don’t think the windshield wipers are going to help you clear the windshield.
Neighbor Having Dead Tree Cut Down... Contractor Made A Little Mistake
Well, that really is ridiculous having a car parked anywhere near the tree.
It was easier just to put it right into the truck. No heavy lifting this way.
Hope that was the contractors truck. That trunk is huge. Good thing didnt crush the house.
I say it was the mistake also of the owner also not move his vehicle but also the contractor to not tell him to move the vehicle
In the modern day and age, this manifests as our curiosity whenever there is a traffic accident. It’s almost cliche to say things like “I couldn’t look away,” when we recall driving or walking past a car crash, but it does reflect a deep-seated inquisitiveness we have toward destruction. Many people will slow down, partially due to safety concerns, as one crash might be an indicator of risk factors in the area.
Oven Fell On A Red Hot Ferrari
I think they didn't have the forks latched properly and they slid together on their own. On the forklift I deal with there is a handle on the back of the fork you need to squeeze to slide them back and forth.
Load More Replies...i WAS AT A Long's Drugs (not sure if they are still round) and some idiot that worked there was moving a shelving unit with a dolly and crashed it on the hood of my car (not a Ferrari). He tried to act as if nothing happened, but I was just walking out the store as it happened, so I waited for his next move, which was to recover the shelving unit and walk away. I wasn't happy and I tore him and his manager (he was the assistant manager) a new one. Mostly for the walking away bit and the stupid argument he tried to make as if it was my fault for parking my car where he was going to lose control of his load.
Probably the most expensive car it could've happened to here. That's a bad bad day
Yes Sir, I Can Confirm That Your Package Is Currently En-Route On A Container Ship
Honestly, it’s more that disaster strikes when correct loading procedures are not followed, because weight and balance is a real issue. Correctly load these containers so that the heavier ones are on the bottom and the inside of the stack, and all of your lighter containers are on the top and outside, and these ships have no problem. Rushing your dock workers results in disaster for all
Load More Replies...These containers do not stay intact. The beaches of the northern islands in the Dutch Waddensea, water and seafloor included, were completely covered with cheap stuff made in east asia, from Ikea-stools to the plastic pipes of soap-pumps. And it still keeps coming. Google container ship Zoe, who lost 300 containers. https://www.waddensea-worldheritage.org/news/tuesday-storm-halts-clean-efforts-lost-containers
77% of the containers were recovered and 23% were not. See MV Rena reef collision.
Load More Replies...Happened just off Mt Maunganui, New Zealand. Ran aground on a reef
It's not that the ship is too big. The load should be arranged so it's not top heavy. Ever heard of a pyramid folks?
Meh! Most likely loaded with rubbish and knock-offs made in china
Well, Not One But Two
Where did people think new Lamborghinis came from?
Load More Replies...The warranties on some fancy fast cars aren’t available until you successfully drive out of the parking lot. Things like this photo happen a lot.
Our brains are somewhat helpful in this regard. Relationally, a car crash, for example, or any other less common disaster is a bad thing. But our minds are clever enough to know that there might be important data, so they will want us to look. Our brains are more engaged when there is a negative emotion present, allowing us to quickly analyze the situation and learn whatever lessons there are to be learned. It seems that “smart people learn from others' mistakes,” is a core feature of our psyche.
Paint Spill In A Maserati
ooooh it had to be a real naughty one to get that much
Load More Replies...If my memory serves me right, it happen years ago, the driver swerved to avoid hitting a dog, car was totalled and the settlement was £45,000
Honest boss I thought it would work better if it looked real nice and shiny
Who the hell would have a bucket of paint in the front seat of their Maserati?
Honey, I'm Home!
Optimus prime had a few too many and tried not to wake the house up when he got home and failed.
Lamborghini Wrecked In Crash Just 20 Minutes After Purchase
like damn if you can afford a lambo, u can afford a good chevy equinox. like honestly why do ppl have to have a car that goes like 300 mph when you can buy a chevy for a 1/4 the price. and when r u gon be driving 300 mph
Load More Replies...I was driving on a highway in Boston MA, probably going about 70 mph (115 kph). A brand new, red, tricked-out pick-up truck whipped past me, definitely going well over 100 mph (160 kph). A little later, I got off at an exit, and there was the truck, lying on its side. The very young driver was outside, staring at it in astonishment.
Depends... Did the driver to show off and lost control? No sympathy. Was he driving normally and somebody crashed into him? poor guy
Good to see the head protection system works - note bars to the rear of the roof
Yep. My only comment on this one is: I’m glad the driver is ok.
Load More Replies...Our consciousness is also somewhat assisted by the knowledge that there are solutions. We live in a materially rich world, cars can be fixed or replaced, and buildings repaired. Many people have insurance. This knowledge helps us rationalize these disasters and turn them into a bit of entertainment. Yes, it probably wouldn’t feel great to walk outside after a storm, see your own ruined property and think “That looks expensive,” but even bad luck has its own sort of charm.
The Gaziantep Castle In Turkey Collapsed After The Recent Earthquake
Heartbreaking and castlebreaking. Sorry, I'll let myself out... ;)
Load More Replies...You really never know how delicate an object is until Mother Nature steps in and shows it.
I'm Sorry Sir, But That Spot Is Normally Reserved For The Boss's Corvette Stingray
Looks there is somebody in a yellow suit climbing up to the car - suppose it is reflection somehow
Load More Replies...If that was a deliberate dumping then they shouldn't have chosen a place with such clear water.
Zoom in on the tree line birth of the car, and you will find a happy face
Someone Forgot To Drip The Faucet
Okay Joe we've got nearly 2 hours before the game. If we just work together . . .
This was purposeful demolition to prepare for a new floor. The water keeps the dust to a minimum.
Thank you. That's what it looked like to me but I didn't feel like looking it up. (Pandas are always so informative.)
Load More Replies...This was from flooding at the University of Arkansas Little Rock
Hello Home Depot, I need about 50,000 sq ft of hardwood flooring ASAP.
In fact, if a person can laugh at themselves, and by extension, their own misfortune, that is a sign of better emotional well-being. Plus, if you can afford something that is expensive to fix, you might already be in a better position than most. So finding humor in downright bad luck is a good way for the brain to rationalize what is happening and release a little joy in an otherwise unfortunate situation. So, if you want to explore others’ misfortune a bit more, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our pieces here, here, and here.
73-Year Old Woman Confuses Accelerator With The Brakes In Australia
They hit the curb or speed bump. My dad didn't know there was a speed bump and floared it and I think we caught air..
Load More Replies...With the black and white outfit it looks a bit as if the bride was carrying the groom across the porch.
I assisted at an accident where an elderly lady did that. She ran a red right into the fuel tank of an 18 wheeler. On checking on her found she was on Oxygen and a few feet away there was diesel fuel spilling from the ruptured tank. A man and I helped her to a safe place to await authorities. She told me she had intended to quit driving and sell her van once she got home because she was getting so nervous driving. Then this happened. Thankfully she and the driver were ok.
In 2005, A U.S. Navy Submarine Ran Into A Mountain And Made It Back On Its Own
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)
Load More Replies...I have a family member who was on this ship when it happened. His apprentice was the one fatality. This is the USS San Francisco. Basically, on 8 January 2005, going full speed, the submarine collided with an unmapped undersea mountain. The ship was almost lost, they sailed two days to port.
Wanna know how many sailors had to hold the tarp on while it traveled back home.
Someone posted wiki link on reddit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Suevic
The article for the San Francisco, copied from above, has the same photo as this item.
Load More Replies...3/14/23 Miller Hill Mall (Duluth, Mn) Roof Collapse Due To Snow
You just know that someone is going to show up and complain that they are there to get her hair done so they need to open it up for her, or she is going to call the manager.
This is what happened to the Metrodome in Minneapolis (also Minnesota). The Vikings were supposed to play a game against the NY Giants the next day. Since the cameras were already there for the game, they decided to leave them on overnight in case something happened. Well, something did happen. https://youtu.be/BI2mBiy1FGE
I'm not an engineer, but I just don't get the flat roof design in snow country.
They were shoveling it off when it happened. We broke our all time record snow fall this year. I still have a hill of snow in my front yard today, April 28. It snowed several inches or a foot several times a week for weeks. It was fairly miserable.
Load More Replies...This Is What's Left Of The Building I Used To Live In Until Last Friday. Lille, France
A student was returning from a party to his apartment in the center of Lille at night when he was struck. The wall in the hallway had shifted. He alerted the fire department and the house was evacuated before it collapsed. Nevertheless, one person died. The investigations initiated by the judiciary are to clarify, among other things, whether renovation work on one of the buildings triggered the collapse. Experts had begun examining adjacent buildings for stability and safety, the mayor announced. According to media reports, another third building adjacent to the ruins was expected to collapse on Sunday. - from a German Newspaper -
Load More Replies...Singapore Airlines Sq368 On Fire After Emergency Landing
My worst nightmare is NOT landing when the plane is on fire.
Load More Replies...When I was little, I was coming home from a vacation in Florida and a bolt of lightning hit the wing, I was in a window seat and saw it hit. It was scary! Thankfully nothing happened though
On average every airliner is hit about once per year. The Faraday cage effect causes the electricity to pass harmlessly over the skin of the aircraft. The electronics have systems to protect them. They can exacerbate existing problems and the aircraft should be thoroughly inspected after a strike, but I'm only aware of one case where it actually endangered the aircraft.
Load More Replies...It landed tho! They'll cut the fuel and have support, just get out calmly and quit taking pictures! Much better than crashing.
And they fill the wings with fuel, what idiot came up with that idea.
Well, where else would they put it. Most planes have it in the wings and belly
Load More Replies...Your aircraft is on fire and instead of evacuating you take pictures? Here's your sign!
Glad you took the pic... But on the other hand.... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING INSIDE THE PLANE YOU KNUCKLEHEAD
If I was on that plane, the nearest emergency exit on the opposite side would have had its door ripped off by me while SCREAMING for everyone to GET OUT 😬😨😱
I appropriately read you name as "Teresa Panics". :D
Load More Replies...Instant Infinity Pool
There's a lot of this on the west coast of the US, it's just vanity draining into the ocean.
Many years ago I was at Black' Beach and there was this cool looking house nearby built on the side of the cliff. Like about 2/3 of it was held up by giant steel poles. I've sometimes wondered how that house fared over the years.
Load More Replies...As I sit here on the Wasatch Front in Utah and watch the multitudes of houses collapsing down cliffs due to the heavy snowfall and resulting moisture abundance, I can't help but wonder if people will ever learn: Monopolizing the view ain't worth the risk! Leave the space open so others can appreciate it too.
This just happened in Draper, Utah a week ago! Dumb a*s rich people thought it was great to turn the clif into a residential neighborhood 20 - 30 years back. I saw a video of the ENTIRE house slide off into the darkness
This is why I live in the middle of the San Fernando Valley in the flats and not oceanfront or up in the hills. This happens a lot here with earthquakes and mudslides.
I'm On The Roof!
I mean you can see the ladders, how else did it get up there?
Load More Replies...Yep. That aluminum ladder held the weight of car. 👍🏾😅
Load More Replies...I have questions about the ladders. Yes, car on roof, move along. What rescue teams are using harbor freight ladders?
I made up an answer that said these guys were going all in for Halloween and moved some deceptively lightweight wreckage onto the roof. I'm not very bright.
Load More Replies...This has got to be tornado damage. But is it finders keepers?
Well constructed roof. My cookie cutter home would crumple like a paper cup if something like that landed on it.
Roro Ferry Plows Into Anchored Cargo Vessel. Officer On Duty "Swears" He Wasn't Asleep At The Wheel
i wouldn't be surprised if we find out working conditions are similarly terrible on these ships and this man was forced to work while sleep deprived. :\
Also seems strange that such a large vessel only had a single crew member on bridge who could have seen a cargo ship in the distance, so probably understaffed too
Load More Replies...It's in front of you, Tyrone. When you move forward, things come from in front of you. 🤓😜
Load More Replies...I mean either you were asleep or you sailed right into the side of a huge stationary ship while awake ...
If it's night and you're simply not looking... see link on other comment.
Load More Replies...Last Saturday I took the Black Ball Ferry from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, and one thing that surprised me was how banged up the bow section of the boat was ("Kinda like your car," said the significant other). I think you can see some of it in the picture I posted. This make me believe that hitting sh!t seems to be quite common for sea-going vessels. coho-ferry...30a4a2.jpg
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)
It takes a bit for an ICE to stop, the trash truck is probably a half klick back.
Load More Replies...Headline had me confused. So: just an information: ICE means Intercity-Express (has nothing to do with Ice like in "cold").
But you see it's still on the tracks. In the US Amtrak can't stay on the rails not running into anything. US tracks are s**t. I wouldn't ride an Amtrak if you paid me.
The locomotive is most certainly *not* on its rails here..........
Load More Replies...Just Got A Brand New Grove At Work! Annnnnnndd It’s Gone. Can’t Believe This Guy Has A License!
And this, my friends, is what happens when we say, "I will never use mathematics after I get out of school."
Someone Left A Grill On In The Parking Lot At The Dolphins-Patriots Game
Oh man they are in for a surprise after the game. I saw something similar years ago after a Redskins Packers game.
My car got broken into last week. I had two dolphins tickets in the glove box, and they put four more in! (I'm a dolphins fan, but still it's a good joke)
I've heard this joke, or similar ones, told about various teams that were having bad seasons or had just plain sucked for years.
Load More Replies...An small example of what it's going to look like when EVs catch fire in a crowded lot. Just image when one catches in a parking garage. Do you think EV driver is going to have enough insurance to pay for every car and the structure? What will you do when they say your insurance has to pay for your car?
Vet On Fire. Seen In Dallas Today 8/17/2022
"Vette" would have been easier to understand :)
Load More Replies...My cousin's went up in flames a few years back on the highway, same model , seems like it's a recurrent problem with this car (says the insurance company who refused to pay because he didn't do the imposed electrical check one year prior)
Given the age of the vehicle the problem is more likely to be related to aged fuel lines or an improperly located fuel filter.
Load More Replies...My 1968 Fury convertible driver with 610,000 miles burned up in an arson garage fire in Lambertville NJ with rare parts galore stored there. I am still heartbroken and haven't even visited the burned out shell pushed into another bay yet after 5 years......
Load More Replies...oh I was in dallas 2 days ago and saw a giant car fire I wonder what it is about dallas
That's A Big Explosion
Ok, I’ll admit it. I really shouldn’t have had that second bowl of chili. My bad
After two weeks of being extremely obese, giving myself the laxative intravenously, and finally being redeemed with a big bang....
How Fast Do You Have To Go For That To Happen
Delinquent deliberately dropping a full cup from a bridge. Windscreen designed to buckle but not implode from impact.
Actually there is a mythbusters episode about this, if you want to know
That was because it cracked the heat shield and burnt up on reentry. Not really the same
Load More Replies...The student flat had 12 floors. A fellow student had received a traffic fine. When he saw a police car pass by, he threw a fresh egg. Both officers were covered in egg spray, the egg had fallen through the windshield.
Henceforth This Jack Will Be Known As 'Vlad'
I feel like "Vlad" might be shorter than "The Impaler"?
Load More Replies...Driving Into A Multistory? No Problemo
Apparently, this happens quite often, look at the marks all over the ceiling.
I saw them right away! Lol, wtf, and sadness all at once
Load More Replies...Aahh, hello? The answer is yes. How do you think he loads and unloads the bikes?
Load More Replies...The marks on the ceiling show that this isn't a rare occurrence.
Judging by the scratches on the roof, an over height vehicle is not an anomaly.
Take your bikes on vacation, they said. It's gonna be thrilling, they said.
The Gas Leaks On The Nord Stream 1 And 2 Gas Pipelines In The Baltic Sea
Just light the gas on fire at the source and let it kick him in the butt
Load More Replies...This is an unconscionable act of sabotage. I'm thinking of marine life.
Does anyone have a banana to figure out the diameter of the gas bubbles?
At Least It Didn't Derail
Dinner Cruise In Paris Collides Into A Bridge While Passengers Aboard Are Dining
Great-Grandfather Was An Airmail Pilot, Found These Photos With His Stuff
Meaning we have always scrambled to document our fellow human's failures with gleeful aplomb.
There aren't many aircraft that can park on their nose. Saves enormously on parking space.
NYC Parking Garage Collapses. Drivers Trapped
Another reason New Yorkers appreciate their auto-free existences.
what in the actual f**k- bad parking doesn't cause a collapse you dimwit in case that wasn't apparent already😘
Load More Replies...A Second Norfolk Southern Train Derails In Ohio, Just A Month After The East Palestine Derailment
Have some respect to for my state's civilians and workers, you corporate shareholder greedy a******s!!!
Tank Barrel Miss Fire
I was like "why would they have the rifling outside the barrel?". Then it was clear.
Interestingly, most modern tanks, with the exception of the British Challenger tank, don't have rifled barrels. Not sure what tank this is.
Load More Replies...You just had to look up there to see what was happening didn't you
We Got Our First Real Snow In Denver Last Night
My dad and sister got caught in this. My sister got out of the car after someone rear ended her and someone else slid and ran over her foot. She’s OK, it was mostly just badly bruised.
What about your father? I hope he’s okay too
Load More Replies...This seems so crazy to me after seeing what roads can be like in parts of Northern Finland in winter. xD but in all seriousness, I do hope nobody was hurt in this scenario.
Same kinda stuff here in Utah. It's as if over the warmer months, everyone forgets how to drive in foul weather.
Someone Didn't Properly Tighten Their Lugs
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!
Not the lug nuts. The pickup driver modified his wheel/tire combo with offsets. The extra strain put in the hub assembly caused it to snap. A couple of auto related sites wrote fairly detailed breakdowns on this incident.
I've done this airborne thing... truck tire was shot out, Hit the ditch tailgate first. Flipped end over end 2x then side over side 2x.
I actually saw someone lose their wheel a few weeks ago on i 95 in south carolina. Luckily it didn't result in this. I was going the opposite way so i don't know where the tire ended up
also, the lug nuts were not the problem. the wheel bearing is what failed
Don't Taxi Your F-16 Behind A B-1 Doing A Full Power Engine Test
That missile being pushed to the ground is making me all kinds of nervous 😨
Don't worry, they need to be electronically armed first to explode, being dropped on the ground won't set them off
Load More Replies...A Tram And Its Heavy-Duty Transporter Fell Into A Ditch In Germany. Estimated Loss Is Around 2.5 Million
The City Started Work On Our Neighborhood Pond…
Typo. I think you mean : "The city started work IN our neighborhood pond."
That Will Buff Out
I have worked on those frames. What did you have in the back Grandpa, lead?
I recall reading the full story on this. The dealer told him this camper was within the payload limits of his truck, which it theoretically was (4900lbs for the camper, 5850lbs capacity for the truck). However, once you load the camper with water, fuel, gear, etc it was well over the 5850lb limit (also had a motorcycle strapped to the back and gear mounted on the roof). He drove the truck 25000 miles overloaded and the frame snapped. Dodge didn't cover this under warranty and I wouldn't either. He either needed a smaller camper or a bigger truck.
Load More Replies...Wow!! And from the looks of it, they are out in the middle of nowhere (aka: Southwest US).
Truck Lifted Too High To See The Porsche In Front Of Him
Driver suffering from Trouser Deficiency or TD as some road workers call it. Often seen driving BMWs, Audis or Honda Civics.
Load More Replies...Actually this is a majestic sight in nature. It's the rarely seen mating ritual of people with too much to prove. This is how douchebags are born.
Some folks say it's to make up for other things *not* lifting that high
Load More Replies...Saw This Ferrari With A Parking Ticket On My Lunch Break, By 5:00 Someone Had Smashed In The Windscreen
Rich oligarch won't care really. They'll get one of their people to sort it out.
$1.5 Million Floating Home Prototype Sinks Into The Water Just As It’s Unveiled
Quick change the release to a new underwater home for discriminating tenants
Ferrari Enzo ($2.5 Million) Crashed By Delivery Driver Enroute To New Owner!
if i had spent that money on a car, i would at the very least expect it to be delivered on a trailer, properly covered and protected from the elements
Was thinking the same: Why was it delivered on its own wheels, under it´s own power?
Load More Replies...You mean, worth $ 2.5 Million before the varnish was decorated with a small scratch and a little bump.
UPS Plane Cuts Corner And Gets Stuck In The Mud At The Birmingham Airport... They Are Still Trying To Get It Out! 😂
I'm going to tell your mother. You know she doesn't want you playing in the mud
To Transport Glass In An Elevator
they were carring the glass, the elevator's door closed and destroyed the glass
Load More Replies...First Day On The Job?
A Car Belonging To A Chinese Diplomat Rammed The Berlin Fire Department's New Electric Fire Truck
Blowing Up 15 Empty Condos At Once Due To Abandoned Housing Development
What an incredible waste of concrete. Which is a huge greenhouse gas emitter when produced.
Each BUILDING is condo. They blew up 15 buildings of homes in a place with catastrophic housing issues
Load More Replies...Wind Last Night Blew Over The Wood Framing Just Enough For The Bricks To Collapse!
I see a few. Something doesn't add up though. Those walls have been sheetrocked. You wouldn't do that until the roof and windows were in place. If the structure was built to that point, wind wouldn't matter unless it was hurricane force or more in which case the entire structure would be gone and there sure wouldn't be a BMW parked there as if noting happened. If anything, this looks more like a roof collapse which pushed the walls out. Roof collapse still indicates a structural deficiency or design flaw
Load More Replies...It looks like a shoddy job that anyone sneezing would have blown over, alas.
I guess it's a big deal for the people owning the place. You could gain a lot from opening a dictionnary and checkthe word "empathy"..
Load More Replies...Refuel Mishap With A C-141 Starlifter. (Tanks Overpressurised)
Borderline Abusive
apparently boyfriend is in jail now, but they're still together
Load More Replies...No "borderline" about it, the guy's temper is out of control, unless they were broken in cold blood, which is worse. Please get help from your local domestic abuse service or charity
Massive Auqadome In Berlin Cotaining Over 1500 Fish Exploded
I visited the thing once. It was awesome: elevator rising up through the fish. Sigh.
Load More Replies...It was the World's largest aquarium (if you go by aquariums not in the zoo setting) and it collapsed because of it's age (and probably some missed inspections). All the fish died.
damn, that's awful to hear. I do hope that this sends a clear message to other aquariums/zoo's/etc to ALWAYS check your enclosures and NEVER miss an inspection. RIP lil fishies ;-;
Load More Replies...If there were any hungry moggies in the vicinity, this was their lucky day. 😄
Load More Replies...Absolutely amazingly lucky it was when no one was hanging around down there. If it had been during the busy time of day....
Doesn’t Really Get Much Worse Than This…
Crashed F-35c That Fell Off Uss Carl Vinson Flight Deck Into South China Sea
Try 75 to 80 million, you were only off by over 34 billion.
Load More Replies...I often wonder what happens to planes that fall off aircraft carriers and sink. Do they have a marine salvage company on staff?
In this case, the aircraft was recovered from nearly 12,000 feet of water by U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force 75 and Naval Sea Systems Command with the assistance of 'Picasso' which is a special support ship owned by a Singapore company and flagged in the Bahamas.
Load More Replies...A 4 Lane Highway Almost Completely Stopped Because Of This
This is sufficiently sized that it needed an oversize load permit and a 'point' vehicle. Also, someone failed with route planning. The DOT will be highly displeased with whoever owns this trucking company.
Tell me you weren't using a pilot car without telling me you weren't using a pilot car.
It appears, that only the load was damaged. The bridge seems to have held its own.
Let's see....it should just roll right through. Hmm...guess not..
I once spent 7 hours standing still on a highway due to an incident just like this.
House Flooded By Torrential Rain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2: The Chocolate Comes Home to You
great now I feel absolutely awful for laughing ;-;
Load More Replies...Parking Near An Intersection + Huge Truck + Small Streets
I couldn't make sense of the photos, so checked out the original. Oh my goodness! https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatLookedExpensive/comments/zcrcya/parking_near_an_intersection_huge_truck_small/
The dude running! I know I shouldn’t laugh, but… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Always ALWAYS give trucks as much space as you can! They tip over extremely easily if the tires get just a teeny tiny bit outside the road -which is why they always drive so close to the middle of the road. Also, because of their weight and size they are slower at getting up in speed as well as slower to break down/halt. And they do need a lot of space for turning. Because of their size.
Someone Hit My Pump Today At Work. No Injuries
Something Leaking?
Car Garage Collapse
DHL Boeing 757 Cargo Jet Breaking Into Two After Skidding Off The Runway
It's a cargo aircraft, usually no more than a pilot an copilot.
Load More Replies...2 Lamborghinis Crashed After Street Race, Black One Was On Fire In Front Of Fire Station
Was happy to read last week that idiots like that who killed some bystanders got sentenced for manslaughter.
Load More Replies...Trying To Do A Cool Skid Into The Driveway
I don't think a Range Rover would be a good candidate for drifting.
Former $45k Sculpture
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.
Why the f#*K did the have it just sitting there anyway? Put it in something safer.
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
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
I get the excitement, but they know it's just a mistake, and the oil companies aren't losing anything on this. Someone's just taking advantage of some poor bastard's goof up to save some money. This guy got fired so a bunch of a******s could save a few dollars. They're no better than the oil companies in the first place imo.
Dayum!!
I've seen a few of these. Wind Generators are crazy long, not conducive to most turns when hauling by truck
In the original video it appears the very end of it was hit by a fast moving train.
Wanna see some crazy tractor trailer driving? Go to YouTube and search "Swift Drivers".
Nice Car
The rear bumper ended up coming right off. The driver didn't even notice it. More cash than brains.
If you end up in sudden water like this, you really have no choice but keep going. If you brake you're done. Keep moving forward and you can at least get to the otherside. This is specifically in cases where is unavoidable and clear its not MOVING water, and here, where they are basically sandwiched between two larger cars, avoiding it would have been difficult
I’d Google It, But My Fiber Is Out ATM
We'll have you back online in 15 minutes, half hour tops.
Load More Replies...There is a reason for all those "Call 811" signs!
Load More Replies...Idiot In A Shelby Gets Stuck In Fresh Cement
Okay anybody can get stuck but did you have to leave it there for hours
Yeah, doesn't look like that cement was marked off in any way. This person probably took the picture for insurance purposes so the city could pay for the cleaning and repairs. That truck could back out of this really easy if it wanted to.
Load More Replies...Nope. Apparently Shelby kits out Ford F-150s into "Shelby F-150s". You just have to pay $130,000 - $150,000. Carroll Shelby is rolling over in his grave.
Load More Replies...Executive 747 Scrapped With 29 Flight Hours On It
Looked it up. It's buyer a Saudi prince, died nine months before delivery. It was moved to Germany for refitting to sell, bt didn't find a buyer in 10 years. It was moved to an American aircraft graveyard last year.
Was bought by the Saoudian governement for one of their princes in 2012. Send to Germany to get interior design, but the prince in question died in 2021. So in the end it was never used.
Load More Replies...2 Million Dollar Rimac Nevera Rear Ended By Motorcycle On The Pch About A Week Ago
Yeah, motorcycle riders on the pch are díckbags and have no regard for others nor how dangerous that road is.
Supposedly the rider had been riding aggressively, so it was probably entirely his fault, but I do wonder if that Rimac stopped a little faster than the rider expected a car to.
Apparently there wasn't much thanks to the one piece carbon fiber chassis.
Load More Replies...He's kicking himself, realizing he is responsible for repairs to a $2m car.
Load More Replies...Protesters Mess With Ferraris In Paris
These are the same a******s who block traffic and do noting but mess up innocent people's day. F**k them.
Innocent people? How much CO2 do these cars release into the atmosphere and here they aren't blocking any traffic. Hoe many people suffer from climate change and we do next to nothing and you are whining about blocked traffic. Dangerous fungi adapt to higher temperatures and insects with deadly diseases spread north, blocked traffic is nothing compared to that
Load More Replies...Neither an accident nor expensive - the cars can just be cleaned up. What's going to be expensive is dealing with the effects of climate change for the next few hundred years.
breaking the law does not solve any climate change problem, this is called being a d**k and it's not protesting either.
Load More Replies...I think the protest is not aimed at Ferrari specifically but rather at the idea of having a car show to promote gas-guzzling cars ('Mondial de l'Auto' is the name of the car show. in the banner they have turned it into 'Mondial de l'auto-destruction' which means something like 'World fair of self-destruction').
Load More Replies...Nothing. It makes me more against what their protesting. This isn't protest. It's breaking the law.
Load More Replies...When they glue them selves to things the police should just grab them and pull.
Hmmm...I wanna know what they stand for. If they're even half the ignorant, hypocrites that PETA is, they should stop lying to people and get real jobs...or become a politician.
Who say they don't have a job ? You know them personally ? And what's a "real job" anyway ? Is it lying to people to tell that the extraction and use of fossil fuels are bad for the environnement and the health of people ?Apparently some people love cars so much they're ready to give up their humanity to them... sad...
Load More Replies...Disgusting, breaking property does not make the thing you are protesting for any better. This is not protesting, this is a riot of people breaking the law.
Truck Illegally Crosses Double Yellow (To A Pullout) And Clips The Front Of A New 992 Gt3, Totaling It
It's condition doesn't affect its age. And that condition will be repaired since the OTHER vehicle was the one breaking the law and causing the damage.
Load More Replies...That looks a lot like Deal's Gap, I think I know that corner, should be west side of the powerline stretch.
Mat Armstrong is doing a YouTube rebuilding it back to its former glory
Was It Worth It To Try And Save Yourself 3 Seconds Dumbass?
Guy Films The Delivery Of His New Audi
The shrub reminds me of minecraft
Load More Replies...Wow. Ouch. I'm guessing the car driver is responsible but I might be wrong. I guess he didn't look properly - as in, he should have seen the motorcycle coming.
The question is: Why is the bike driving on the walkway? He has no business there.
Load More Replies...Unsecured Traffic Light
Hyundai I40 Gets Into Accident With An Expensive Car
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)
For somethings you can’t get insurance. You have to trust your abilities
Load More Replies...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?
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)
For somethings you can’t get insurance. You have to trust your abilities
Load More Replies...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?
