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75 Expensive Mistakes People Made That Might Make You Say “Ouch” Just Looking At Them (New Pics)
We’re all human, and we all make mistakes. It’s what we tell ourselves when things go wrong, and for the most part, it’s true. But here’s the thing: not every slip-up is created equal. Breaking a plate during dinner is unfortunate. Backing your car through the garage door? That’s going to sting a lot more. Both are accidents, sure, but the consequences couldn’t be more different.
Below, we’ve gathered a collection of painfully expensive mistakes people have shared online, the kind that make you wince and instinctively check your bank account just looking at them. Scroll down to see the photos, and maybe send some sympathy to the folks behind them. They could definitely use some.
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#1
Wife Left The Door Open To The Pool Area. Expensive Robot Vacuum (Bottom And Upside Down) Decides It Wants To Meet The Pool Vacuum
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#2
Meet Bonnie, Our 3-Month-Old Collie. During The Night She Discovered A Can Of Blue Paint With A Loose Lid
We call this her 'blue period' since she is obviously going through some artistic phase. The Chinese rug cost nearly $6,000.
highwaycrossingfrog 19 minutes ago
It looks just like a horrid rug my parents had in the 80s and 90s (they have terrible taste in decor).
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UnclePanda 7 hours ago
Enigmatic names to the rescue! Get a frame, cut out the most interesting blue piece, add the right name and this is art worth millions! How about "Portrait of Bonnie Blue Under Blacklight"?
Nuku Nyara 31 minutes ago
I would DIY the rug with the same blue paint as a stain and wash it out with the pressure washer outside or have the professionals rinse the excess paint out leaving the blue stain behind. Would be much more pretty.
highwaycrossingfrog 6 minutes ago
Can you imagine how many tiny pots of paint would be needed to dye that whole rug?? It's really not worth shelling out hundreds of dollars, not to mention all the time and effort, to - if you're lucky and it works - end up with an ugly blue rug instead of an ugly beige rug.
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patricia patricia 36 minutes ago (edited)
What are the owners supposed to do? Lock her in a cage?
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#3
When The Fire Suppression Foam Is Accidentally Released
Mike F 15 hours ago
Wasn't there a quick shot at the beginning of Airplane that looked similar to that?
Laika 15 hours ago
They gonna play with the metal planes instead. Plane ducky.
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TotallyNOTAFox 8 hours ago
That F-15 alone costs between 70 to110 million, the A-10 in the backround is probably fine though after a spray down with a power washer
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Reemerger 7 hours ago
Well, at least they will know where to go to k.i.l.l. any residual flames.
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B Hobbs 57 minutes ago
"Colonel, I have good news and bad news. The fire suppression system in hangar six works." "Captain, is that the good news or the bad news?" "Yes."
D'oh Rae is Me 1 hour ago
This happened at my husbands previous job the day after he quit over safety concerns. Guys were showing up high and drunk, management didn't care, and sure enough one of them knocked the sprinkler pipe putting something on a shelf on a rack and the whole thing let go. Expensive mistake considering they were warned repeatedly by staff that there were issues.
Sometimes the simplest errors turn into the most expensive lessons. When it comes to famous blunders, few can match the scale of what happened to France’s national railway company in 2014. SNCF ordered 2,000 new trains worth billions, only to discover they were too wide for over 1,000 of the country’s train platforms.
The company had measured newer stations but neglected platforms built more than 50 years ago. The error forced them to spend an additional 50 million euros widening 1,300 platforms over two years, turning what should have been a triumph of modernization into an expensive reminder to double-check your measurements.
#4
What Could Go Wrong If I Drive My Expensive GMC Pickup And Trailer Across Ice That Is Too Thin To Support The Weight. Little Bay De Noc, MI
NapQueen 11 hours ago
"No sympathy for the self-inflicted' - what my Mum would say to be when I had a hangover.
Auntriarch 3 hours ago
Your mum obviously went to the same mother school as mine 🙄
Load More Replies... Mike F 15 hours ago
What a meatball. I'd love to hear that phone call to the insurance company.
Toujin C'Thlu 15 hours ago
I can see the insurance agent having to go on hold because they can't resist laughing at this stupidity
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Layla Holston 32 minutes ago
oh my. I live near lil bay in the UP. I'm pretty sure the lake here is frozen enough but not sure when this happened
UnclePanda 6 hours ago
I wish we had an earlier photo of the driver when they heard the first creak.
#5
Meanwhile At The Mercedes Dealership... And A Brand New G Wagon
#6
Scored $320 Of Lumber For $90. Now I Get To Pay $500 For A New Windshield
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I honestly thought that everyone else that this happened to just wasn’t being careful enough. Send the judgement. I deserve it.
UnclePanda 7 hours ago (edited)
I've done it, except it was the windshield that popped. I'd been using an 8' length of ABS pipe to bring bundles of rebar home and the bare pipe fit in the car for the drive into town. Then one day I had the bright idea of adding an ABS collar to each end to make them stronger, which used up 1/2" of the 1/4" safety margin I'd been working with. "SLAM-CRACK-'CK-ME!"
Nuku Nyara 27 minutes ago
We've moved arcade parts in my Kia Optima and the back seat of our F-10 (some have sharp edges or are brittle plastic from the 80's/90's), we put extra EV foam pads around the ends near the sides of the car and rear windows to protect the arcade parts as well as the interior of the vehicle.
In London, a skyscraper became famous for melting cars. The building at 20 Fenchurch Street, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, created an unexpected problem during its construction in 2013.
Its concave glass facade acted like a giant magnifying glass, focusing sunlight onto the street below with such intensity that it warped car panels and melted plastic parts. One Jaguar owner found his side mirror and bodywork damaged after parking nearby for just an hour.
The phenomenon earned the building a new nickname: the Walkie Scorchie. Developers eventually installed a permanent sunshade at a cost of around £10 million to fix the problem.
#7
Cement Truck Mishap
UnclePanda 7 hours ago
It it wasn't so heavy, I'd be tempted to keep it and take up tailgating as my new hobby.
Kid Murray 4 hours ago
Seriusly? There's an ad covering this piece. No way to close it. F**k off BP.
Brian Droste 3 hours ago
If it was caught right away, the cement could be washed off. Not sure what the cement would do to the paint though.
#8
$5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
Debby Keir 5 hours ago
Hmm, thought that even the newer plastic type notes had a metal strip through them, so already a no no for a microwave.
#9
Do Not Park On The Beach
Eggwodd 3 hours ago
I love that word, it's not used as much as it should be.
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WindySwede 9 hours ago
I would prob not *think* about tides, cause of sweden and only lakes around. But then in the first place, I would never park on any Sand near water, prob not even sand far from water either!
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Papa 3 hours ago
About five years ago my family spent the weekend in a house on the beach. We didn't know there was a big festival going on, with much alcohol involved. On Saturday evening the tide was out, and people were driving, and parking, on the sand. When we woke up on Sunday morning we could see a half dozen or so vehicles that had been left parked there, but now were in water up past the axles, and that was just what we could see from the house we were staying in. Who knows how many there were on the whole beach.
Richard Smith 2 hours ago
Why do people keep doing this? My parents live on the Outer Banks and every year a car gets totaled by salt water.
NASA experienced one of the most frustrating mistakes in space exploration history in 1999. The Mars Climate Orbiter, which cost $125 million to build, was lost because of a simple measurement mix-up.
Engineers at Lockheed Martin used imperial units while NASA’s team used metric units. Nobody caught the discrepancy until it was too late. The spacecraft missed its intended orbit and burned up in the Martian atmosphere. The entire mission vanished because it got lost in translation of mathematical language.
#10
Car At The Bottom Is Flooded. Car At The Top Has Been Totalled
Due to the flooding, water got into the mechanism and short-circuited it. It raised the platform, and this was the result.
Upstaged75 13 hours ago
These never seemed like a good idea in the first place. Too easy for something to go wrong.
WindySwede 9 hours ago
needs more censors to spot is something is in the way!
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#11
Someone At Porsche Is Getting Fired Today
Ben 1 hour ago
Anyone with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile
Load More Replies... Spidercat 11 hours ago
Ooooh that's a GT3 RS with a special racing paint job...£250K roughly depending on the options 🤦🏻♂️
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
Thanks... some of us aren't car people. All I saw is car with ugly paint job
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#12
My Neighbor Parks This Expensive Car On The Street
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
Thank you for the assist to us non car people. All I see is black car.
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The business world has seen its share of spectacular misjudgments. In the early 1990s, Quaker Oats bought Snapple for $1.7 billion, convinced it would dominate the beverage market. The acquisition turned into a disaster, and just three years later, Quaker Oats sold Snapple for only $300 million.
The loss was staggering, made even more painful by the fact that Snapple continued to thrive as an independent brand after the sale. Sometimes the best business decision is recognizing when a partnership simply isn’t working.
#13
A Train Car In Minnesota Carrying Corn Had A Leak
Upstaged75 13 hours ago (edited)
I'd worry about them getting hit by another train.
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KatWitch57 7 hours ago
Yeah, nice smooth even distribution, no spillage, zero wildlife. In the UK you'd be neck deep in crows and seagulls before the train got 10 yards (metres) away.
Jessica Daus-Warner 3 hours ago
wildlife in the area still tell stories of the great golden path.
UnclePanda 7 hours ago
And nothing outside of the rails. I like the image but it's simply too neat.
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#14
If You’re Having A Bad Day, Just Know That At Least You Didn’t Shatter A 16,000$ Bottle Of Victory In Europe, 1945 Château Mouton Rothschild
In all seriousness it was maybe the most beautiful thing I have ever smelled in my entire life. I only have a level 2 cert so I’m not super qualified to speak on the smelling notes BUT it smelled like walking through a Plum orchard after it rains in the midst of Autumn.
NapQueen 11 hours ago
I'm going to have to find a plum orchard now on a rainy day to see what that smells like.
Speak easy buttercup 1 hour ago
Probably cheaper than that botte! And you get a nice vacation.
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eric p 1 hour ago
This is sad, BUT, somaliers are literally the most bs profession. They are constantly fooled by cheap wines in blind tests and, given taste is subjective, serve absolutely no purpose. Anyone knows to pair white wine with fish, red with steak, etc. It's not that hard to pick one that pairs well
keyboardtek 6 hours ago
I had an older brother who was a wine aficionado. Even after being unemployed for a year, completely broke, he was putting hundred dollar bottles of wine on his credit card.
nicholas nolan 4 hours ago
Wednesday. It's the '48 that smells like Thursday.
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Mel in Georgia 1 hour ago
An airline pilot my husband knows found a stash of Thomas Jefferson's wine in a Paris townhouse cellar. Transporting it back to the States, he dropped and broke one of the 3 bottles. Still, the price he got for the other two paid for the townhouse apartment!
#15
Residential Homes Built In South Dakota Over Undisclosed Abandoned Gypsum Mine... Sinkhole Renders Entire Neighborhood’s Property Values Now Worthless
IORN 7 hours ago
The operative word is "undisclosed". Whoever did the "undisclosure" has to pay.
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
If the company still exists. Popular fraud trick is to incorporate and sell property like this then dissolve the LLC and reform as a new entity. Makes it nearly impossible to hold them accountable and the homeowners are SOL.
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NapQueen 11 hours ago
Great for hide and seek though. Just make sure you are found before they fill the sink hole back up.
WindySwede 9 hours ago
or to get out *before* the next sinkhole buries you!
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bntxy64kf8 1 hour ago
I would guess that being in South Dakota is what renders it worthless. 🙃
Spain faced an engineering nightmare that sounds almost impossible to believe. Designers working on the Isaac Peral class submarine made a decimal point error in their calculations, making the vessel 100 tons heavier than planned.
The mistake meant the submarine would sink to the ocean floor and never resurface. Engineers caught the error before construction began and redesigned the submarine to be longer, but then discovered it was too large to fit into the port where it was being built. The cascading errors turned what should have been a routine military project into a costly lesson in precision.
#16
That Can’t Be Cheap
keyboardtek 6 hours ago
I remember seeing a lot of the classic Volkswagen bugs had tilted rear wheels like this.
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Delicate Evening Operation On The A4 Highway At The Valmy Rest Area. A Heavy Truck Transporting Utility Vehicles Crashes Under The Canopy Of A Gas Station
Upstaged75 13 hours ago
Honestly that's kind of impressive! How do you even make that happen??
Nicole Weymann 5 hours ago (edited)
Short answer: idiocy (or at least absent mindedness) at work. Long answer: I'm guessing the truck - apparently a two tier car transporter, so the trailer and its load of vans was even taller than the driver's cabin - was too tall to fit under the gas station roof. The truck got stuck and the edge or the roof wedged with the rear end of the first van on the trailer.
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Ripley 15 hours ago
Sydney Harbour Bridge used to be the only way to get from the north to the south of Sydney (and vice versa). Way back in the olden days it had toll booths that had height limitations (you can see where this is going). Every now and then a big truck would think that they could make it, rather than going the long way around over the bridge about 10km-ish to the west without height restrictions. They would get jammed in the toll gates and create hours and hours of chaos. Ahh, those were the days.
Huddo's sister 11 hours ago
We had a storm in Australia (Gold Coast) on Christmas Day that destroyed a crane, basically bending it in half. It took four more cranes to dismantle it.
#18
Got Gucci Sunglasses For My Wife. Dog Ate Them Before She Had A Chance To Wear Them
Ordered for Valentine’s Day. Shipping was delayed. Got them yesterday. Had them for 2 hours before finding them like this in the dog’s bed. My fault, though. I set them on the floor at the top of the stairs so wife wouldn’t forget them when she went out.
Reemerger 8 hours ago
This neighborhood is seriously going do the dogs *tsk tsk tsk*
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Lotekguy 15 hours ago
Next time, don't spend a lot on sunglasses while buying store-brand dog food.
HamsterGirl 14 hours ago
Well did you give the dog a pair? If not, then there’s your problem. The doggie probably wants a pair of Gucci sunglasses too!
Robert T 4 hours ago
Mine are prescription - they are an awful lot more than $5 - though I did some quite a bit cheaper when I bought a pair of normal glasses.
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 3 hours ago
At least he admits it was his mistake and didn't really blame the dog.
Cultural attachment can be stronger than taste test data, as Coca-Cola learned in 1985. After conducting nearly 200,000 blind taste tests showing consumers preferred a sweeter formula, the company replaced its 99-year-old recipe with New Coke.
The backlash was immediate and intense. Protest groups formed across America, consumers stockpiled the original formula, and the company received up to 8,000 complaint calls per day. One person even wrote to the CEO addressing him as “Chief Dodo.”
Just 79 days later, Coca-Cola brought back the original formula as Coca-Cola Classic, having discovered that some things matter more to people than taste.
#19
NOAA-N' Accident
Designated NOAA-N' (NOAA-N Prime) prior to launch, is the last of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's POES series of weather satellites. The satellite suffered an accident prior to launch, which resulted in it falling off its clean room mounting, resulting in significant damage.
Stephanie A Mutti 4 hours ago
I can assure you, it took more than 5 seconds to pick this one up.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 1 hour ago
It didn't "suffer an accident"; it suffered a Fool. Some moron unbolted it from the support stand and either forgot that or didn't tell anyone before the stand was tilted during testing.
Deta Rossiter 7 hours ago
do thwy know what POES means in Afrikaans............... BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
#20
Well
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Or 🎶🎵 "A three hour tour / A three hour tour / ..." 🎵🎶
Load More Replies... Papa 3 hours ago
My best guess is that the plug had been removed to allow it to drain when it was on the trailer, and it wasn't put back when the boat was put back in the water.
#21
From One Of Our Customers In Cedar Lake, Indiana. Someone Sunk Their $300k+ Pavati Wake Boat, Then Swamped His Jeep And Raptor While Trying To Drag It Out
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 hours ago
We've already seen Trump proving that one.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 13 hours ago
Swamping ONE vehicle wasn't good enough?? 😂 What made them think a 2nd one would do the trick??
Trading errors can happen in the blink of an eye with devastating results. In 2005, a stockbroker at Mizuho Securities in Japan made a typing mistake that cost the company around $225 million. Instead of selling one share at 610,000 yen, he accidentally offered 610,000 shares at 1 yen each.
Investors immediately jumped on the incredible deal, buying up the drastically underpriced stock before anyone could stop the trade. Even with stock exchange rules limiting some of the damage, the typo became one of the most expensive keystrokes in financial history.
#22
Who Needs Outriggers?
Lotekguy 15 hours ago
And thus was the house cleft in twain. (I always liked that phrase, but rarely get a chance to use it.)
UnclePanda 6 hours ago
Fortunately, there just happened to be some roofers on hand to repair the damage.
#23
Broke My Leg By Standing Too Fast And Falling Onto Myself
UnclePanda 5 hours ago
Choosing to focus on success, I feel the need to point out that Brian is still in the lead.
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#24
Big Oof
keyboardtek 6 hours ago
Home recording is so easy these day. More practical to set up the recording equipment at home instead of moving a piano to the studio.
The entertainment industry isn’t immune to costly mistakes either. When reshoots were needed for the 2017 film Justice League, Warner Bros faced an unusual problem. Actor Henry Cavill had grown a mustache for another role and couldn’t shave it off.
The studio ended up spending around $25 million to digitally remove the mustache from every scene featuring Superman. The extensive visual effects work became a notorious example of how small scheduling conflicts can balloon into massive budget overruns when production timelines collide.
#25
Apparently D And R Look The Same When You're Tired
detective miller's hat 3 hours ago
My poor brother did this the day he got his driver's permit, with Mom in the car.
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
My dad was tired coming home from camping and forgot to remove the roof rack from the Rover. Absolutely destroyed the garage opening mechanism. He told my mom he said words he hasn't said since the army.
Mel in Georgia 1 hour ago
What's worse is not opening the garage door before backing out. Speaking for a friend.
#26
$300k Video Wall Came Down Today In Vegas
#27
$65,000 Medication... Most Expensive Thing I Have Ever Had To Throw Away
The patient didn’t show up for their appointment. Once mixed, it expires in less than 24 hours. No one else was scheduled for it, unfortunately.
We currently don’t have mixing capability at our location. We have to mix it at a different location and have it delivered on the day of the appointment. 1st time this had happened with such an expensive medication.
Tae Cole 15 hours ago
Prob cost $20.00. But they charge the patient $65 grand. Like everything else in America.
Spidercat 11 hours ago
Actually, 65K is probably the actual cost but government funded health care would cover the cost. The NHS often makes a decision not to provide certain drügs due to cost but as patients we never have to pay... beyond NI tax, which funds the NHS.
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Kira Okah 2 hours ago (edited)
It's Ocrelizumab according to the OP, here in the UK it's £19,000/treatment, usually done every 6 months. Taxes pay for it if you're being treated via the NHS, it's not cheap at all.
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Ziggyc 15 hours ago
My monthly infusions come with a zero cost to me but a $12,000 one goes to the government ,im very greatful I dont have to pay in NZ
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago (edited)
Me2, I get a $5600 injection every month, costs me $20 (Oz)
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Lee451 Henderson 18 minutes ago
My liver doctor had me on rezdiffra, which cost $4000/pill. Medicaid paid for it, Medicare will not.
These stories remind us that mistakes happen at every level, from individual people to massive corporations. The scale might be different from dropping your phone or denting your bumper, but the fundamental lesson stays the same. We’re all capable of errors, and sometimes the most expensive ones come from the simplest oversights.
The best we can do is learn from these cautionary tales, double-check our work, and hope that when we inevitably mess up, the consequences are a bit more forgiving.
#28
I Installed My Own Microwave Today And Saved $150 In Installation Fees
Ashtophet’sRevenge 8 hours ago
Pro tip, pull out the stove first. Plus you can clean under there…
Debby Keir 5 hours ago
I don't get the idea of installing a microwave above a hob - makes a very hot and impossible to fit an extractor....
nicholas nolan 4 hours ago
The extractors are built in and the bottoms of the microwaves have a heat shield and are well insulated.
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Something Scared My Wife And I At 2 AM
This mirror was like 10 ft and came with the house when we bought it. I thought someone shattered our window in the bathroom and was breaking in, or the shower glass shattered. 2 hours later, I’m still cleaning glass off the floor.
Dee Hampton 7 minutes ago
A few more horse's nostrils and you wouldn't tell the difference
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 5 hours ago
Why in the name of onlyfans would you have a 10' mirror on the ceiling of a bathroom?
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
It was on the wall over the sink. Obvious DIY job to make the bathroom look more upscale. Poor use of anchors. Now they have a mess and a bathroom downgrade. People are stupid.
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I Didn't Know This Was Possible
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
Cast iron is strong, but brittle. That's why steel was invented.
UnclePanda 6 hours ago
He goes by Clunk now. It's the only word he can say.
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 3 hours ago
It's definitely a sub par cast iron skillet. So I guess if they get a good replacement it's a win??
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We Always Knew It Would End Like This Some Day
My wife and daughter have been telling me for years that the tempered glass floor protector in my office was a ticking time explosive. Today, when I accidentally knocked my favorite hand-etched glass tumbler off the desk, the floor protector saved it by shattering first into thousands of tiny shards. Well done by the floor protector.
Upstaged75 13 hours ago
I've never understood putting glass under a chair that rolls around while someone sits in it. 🤷♀️
#32
Took This On My Way To Work, Guy Forgot To Secure His Boat To His Trailer And Stomped On The Breaks To Stop
Lotekguy 15 hours ago (edited)
It's a real time-saver when you wreck the boat before you even get it all the way to the water.
UnclePanda 6 hours ago
This is why I always put those two rear end straps in the driver side footwell. There are a lot of things happening when you pull boat out of the water and that one is easy to forget.
#33
Paint Store Guy Didn't Close The Can Properly
Bought a car one week ago, more expensive than I could really afford but so beautiful. Picked up paint while on vacation to paint my mom's house. Teenager working at paint store apparently didn't close the can properly. That's 1 gallon of slightly greenish gray wall paint on the floor of my new car. Paint store guy's response was to apologize profusely, give me another gallon of paint, and throw in a free tub of miracle wipes. Lovely.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 hours ago
I love how it's the paint guy's fault. It's your car, your paint, and your responsibility to ensure everything is secured for transit.
JK 8 hours ago
I mean, it's your responsibility to secure anything you load in your vehicle. Why isnt it in the boot? Why didn't they check the lid? Why didnt they wrap a bag round it? Why in the hell is it some poor kid earning minimum wage fault? And how in the hell did they think one single tin is enough to paint a house? That's not even enough for 1 wall!
Eileen Ryan 4 hours ago
Not sure what more you expected this poor kid to do. Did you expect him to come outside and clean your car for you? Grow up.
#34
Neighbors Removed Their Retaining Wall Without Realizing It Was Providing Support For This Other Wall, Ultimately Leading To Its Failure
Spidercat 11 hours ago
No sympathy here. Hire a surveyor amd get it all worked out by professionals... idiots.
Bill Swallow 1 hour ago
Oh, I'm sure the people responsible *were* professional idiots.
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Son Decided To Swallow A Nickel And Turn $.05 Into $4400.00
Tobias Reaper 12 hours ago
i heard he called the hospital to check on him they told him still no change
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 hours ago
My brother swallowed a tack when he was about 3. Of course it wasn't followed by a huge bill because we're lucky enough to live in a developed country.
Fire Singer 3 hours ago
I swallowed a penny as a kid and was scared it would get stuck. Now, this was 30+ years ago and my dad was military so when we went the hospital the doc just said "It'll come out don't worry" and we walked out. It did in fact come out.
#36
Saw This House-On-Stilts Fail On My Morning Run Today
#37
Merry Christmas! I Got An Extremely Expensive Drone And My Sister's Dog Broke It When Nobody Was Watching
Nicole Weymann 5 hours ago
I'd watch an "Extremely Expensive Drone " like a hawk, and might be tempted to fricassee sis AND the dog.
#38
I Baked My AirPods Along With My Choc Chip Cookies
I turned the oven on to preheat it. 3 min later I removed the oven tray to put it into the kitchen island so I could line it with cookie dough. It didn’t feel very hot, yet the AirPods that were on the kitchen island were presumably attached to it. When I opened the oven after baking for 10 min, there was an abnormal cookie.
Douglas Gold 3 hours ago
The cookies tasted better in general - but the earbuds sounded nicer
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Jedi Panda 2 hours ago
Vaguely related story- I got a pair of airpods pro for Christmas one year, 4 months later, I put them through the wash accidentally... they were toast. Bought a pair of cheap earphones for 10 bucks at Walmart and I've accidentally but them through the wash 5 times. They still work.
UnclePanda 5 hours ago (edited)
I was walking towards the wood stove with a chunk of wood in one hand, a tape measure in the other. I dropped the wood in, took a few steps, and realized I was still holding the wood. I thought the tape measure had completely vaporized but found the coil itself tightly wound in the ashes at the end of the season. Many of the numbers were still legible.
#39
I Accidentally Burned Down My Parent's Outdoor Kitchen By Placing A Still Burning Fire Log On Top Of The Rest Of The Firewood
WindySwede 9 hours ago
Reddit OP also did this: (dark BP for not being able to post links! Se link below)
Reemerger 7 hours ago
At what point in the chain of events did that seem like a good thing to do?
Lila Allen 3 hours ago
I burned a hole in my parents microwave because I thought I could heat my candle up and retrieve the sunken wick. Sometimes your brain fails to identify possible outcomes
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#40
Boss Isn’t Gonna Be Happy With That One
keyboardtek 6 hours ago
Must not have called the underground cable location people before they dug.
UnclePanda 5 hours ago
"Oh man, we are so far beyond screwed, we're going to have to hike back a week to get to the place where the totally screwed people hang out."
#41
An Expensive Mistake... Scout 380 LXF... I Assume Pushing Seven Figures. Maybe Over
#42
Rag Left In Engine After Repairs Turned To Shreds
#43
Started The Weekend By Popping Off My Crown While Flossing
Lotekguy 15 hours ago
It's a corollary of Murphy's Law that such things will always happen on the weekend.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
I had a crown pop off last week. Fortunately when it happened I was sitting right in my dentist's chair getting a check-up.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
I hate flossing my crown because of this. I got in the habit of just pulling out one end of floss for that tooth.
Auntriarch 3 hours ago
I use the little tiny bottle brush thingies, don't trust floss
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VioletIndigoMoons 3 hours ago
Not sure where you live but that's happened to me twice and it isn't expensive to glue back on. Maybe it is where you live? Now a new crown that's a different story.
UnclePanda 5 hours ago (edited)
"You keep doing this and we'll screww the next tooth into your skull." ~ my dentist telling me that the tooth couldn't be repaired any longer and it was time for a full dental implant. If you get a choice, a funny dentist is better than a seriously quiet one.
Mel in Georgia 1 hour ago
Happened to me while visiting Scotland. Imagine my shock as an American when I had a temporary put on the next day for the equivalent of a whopping $35.
#44
I Work In Pharmaceuticals, This Was A Very Expensive Mistake
I should clarify, this is for iron deficiency, if I’m not mistaken it’s called Sytron! Not blood, that would have been much worse!
#45
Absolutely Shattered
Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
I have a friend who took a job at a place that distributed large plate glass windows for stores. This was before tempered glass was required by law for any and all public facing windows. On his first day at the job the floor supervisor told him, "If you're ever handling a large plate and you lose control of it, LET IT GO and move away from it as fast as you can. Do not try to save it. You're replacing an employee who tried to save the glass, and was cut in half, bone and all. We can replace the glass, but we can't give you your life back." My friend left that job at the end of the day because he couldn't get the visual image out of his mind.
#46
My Car Exploded On My Way To Work
I texted my coworker, he's the only coworker's number I have and called him asked if he was at the restaurant and explained what happened. I told him I'll send a couple pics and then he replied they want a selfie with the car "to make sure".
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
"Sorry I'm late for work . I had a breakdown on the way." "What happened to your car?" "...Car?"
#47
Shower Door Spontaneously Shattered Behind Me
Upstaged75 13 hours ago
That happened to the rear window of my car once. I slammed the door and a million little pieces of glass fell inside the back seat. It sounded like ice shattering.
liam newton-harding 7 hours ago
Something similar happened to me on a job: Staying at the Watergate Hotel, opened the shower door...the entire door came away in my hand. Got upgraded to a suite, pretty d**n quick.
Spidercat 11 hours ago
Microscopic air bubbles trapped in glass can expand with temperature changes and cause the glass to shatter...
Crystal M 1 hour ago
This is why I never understood why you would put it in a shower stall.
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#48
Mistakes Were Made
#49
Second Time My Girlfriends Mom Backed Into My Car Today
First pic is of my old car, which gfs mom backed into of October 2024. Today August 2025, she did it again to my new car. Girlfriends mom takes no responsibility both times saying it was my fault because both times it happened I was working a different shift at work, and that I should have stuck to my normal shift. Me and girly's relationship is at an all time strain level.
NightOwlPanda 14 hours ago
This is her subtle way of saying she does not see you as son-in-law material.
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago (edited)
Today? There's a serious problem here.... (edit: ah, thought it was twice today 😅)
WindySwede 7 hours ago
would she say the same if crashed into some one else on public road? "Why tf are you not in school/working!?"
#50
My Shower Was Leaking So I Tried To See If I Could Fix It. I Broke It Instead
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
I gave up DIY because it always cost me more to get a professional in to fix my DIY than to do the original job
#51
Phone Purchased At 10:20 AM, Black Ice Got Me At 1:30 PM
I purchased it same day, currently out at school and there’s isn’t a repair place around here so I’m waiting until I go home in a couple weeks to fix it up.
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
Let's put a glass back on these ridiculously expensive devices people carry around all day! What could possibly go wrong?
David Paterson 10 hours ago
Black ice can cause damage a lot more expensive than this. Broken hip for instance.
#52
You Can't Park There Sir
It looks like the bottom of the tree rotted out causing it to fall over, it didn't even rip the roots out of the ground. I think the cuts are from the fire department/public works cutting it to clear the roadway. There was a pile of cut pieces out of view of the picture.
Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
"Act of God", at least as far as US insurance companies are concerned. You won't get a penny from them. (I suppose you can always go to a church and ask the Pastor why God hated your car.)
Richard Smith 2 hours ago
Is that a Toyota? What's the problem? It'll fire right up. Drive the free firewood home.
#53
Jet Airways Bus Accidently Hit The Belly Of Air India Flight After The Driver Reportedly Lost Control At The Wheels
Stardust she/her 6 hours ago
This post must be nearly a decade old as Jet Airways doesn’t exist anymore (at least in my country).
Serena Myers 6 hours ago
2015, according to original post, so yes, you're right.
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 5 hours ago
Was the prop spinning? Because you'd have two very different faces being made by the driver.
#54
This Is What An Expensive Mistake Looks Like. Quarter Inch Hole In Inaccessible 20 Conductor Cable
WindySwede 9 hours ago
More info from OP (dots exchanged to not get hidden) "Yeah that’s about it_ I was drilling through a floor down through the ceiling of the room below it_ I was pretty sure it was just 13 inches of empty space but turns out it was really not_ This cable contained 20 smaller wires_"
Did I say that out loud? 7 hours ago
That's what pipe/cable detectors were invented for.
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 5 hours ago (edited)
Back in the 80s, I looked in on a friend working under the front passenger seat on his car and said, "Um, Bill? That black lump you're drilling through is the computer. Run the speaker wires on the other side."
Bill Swallow 51 minutes ago
About three jobs ago, they frequently had crews come in to X-ray through the floors. For some reason, we never had an incident like this.
#55
That's An Expensive Way To Start A Vacation In The Vacationland State
Dave Platt 13 hours ago
I think it may have been a road, several decades ago. Google Maps probably didn't get the update about is current condition.
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#56
Dump Truck Thinks Its Kool-Aid Man And Damages River Spirit Expo Center At Tulsa Fairgrounds
#57
Moved Into The New House And Found Out Our Toddler Broke Our 65” TV
WindySwede 8 hours ago
OP "Trust me I didn’t think my husband was 100% innocent in this situation but I also saw the kick that landed the tv face down 😩"
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Today At Work, A Coworker Crashed A Trolley Full Of Plates Needed For A Function
#59
Took My Expensive Knife To A Local Sharpener. This Is How It Came Back
Mac Mighty Slicer. The first photo is how it is supposed to be. Last photos are what it looks like now…
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 hours ago
He's just used an angle grinder for that. No proper sharpening.
#60
Guy Who Mows My Lawn Somehow Did This While Mowing
Upstaged75 13 hours ago
That happened to us too once. The lawn service accidentally ran over a rock and it got catapulted right through the dining room window. They paid to get it replaced.
WindySwede 8 hours ago
did they have to pay or was it you "who had not cleared debree of lawn"?
Load More Replies... Mike F 15 hours ago
That's what happens when you don't pay attention to the direction of your discharge chute.
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago (edited)
As the actress said to the bishop....
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BookFanatic 40 minutes ago
That happened to my car. The local high school’s maintenance guys ran over a penny with their mower and it shattered my passenger window. I came home to a garbage bag over the window and an apologetic note instructing me to call the school so they could pay for the damage.
#61
I Was About To Go To Bed
WindySwede 8 hours ago
op "I used my dust pan to squeegee(?) it into a bunch of paper towels and tossed them in a trash bag, with my child's help_ The majority of it is cleaned, but I have a lot of details I have to deal with tomorrow_" (_ replaced to not get hidden)
Debby Keir 5 hours ago
What was the liquid - washing or toilet cleaning? Makes a difference to what it could do to the flooring.
#62
My Friend Went To The Apple Store Today Because He Broke Both The Front And Back Of His iPhone XS
They told him that because of Corona, the repair service was temporarily closed. He then chose to buy the 11 Pro, which he then dropped when opening the box.
Fire Singer 3 hours ago
Don't get me wrong, I have an iPhone (seriously considering going back to a dumb phone though) but it's "old" and was not bought new. I don't understand the need to run out and buy a brand new one each time a model is released.
Load More Replies... Speak easy buttercup 1 hour ago
Or they are closed because they got a case of Corona and got drunk! 🤣🤣
Load More Replies... shg stewart 1 hour ago
My cat knocked my refurb Samsung A16 (which is old but works perfectly well) on the floor and c*****d the screen a few months ago. I just got a great new job, so I replaced it with a newer (not new) refurb for $200. It works perfectly well. I honestly don't need the latest and greatest, and, given that my cats seem to like to (try to) break my phones, I'll stick with the cheap ones. And I'm never buying any Apple product.
#63
Cat Jumped Off The Samsung Serif TV And It Fell. Replacing The Frame Costs $1500
Chewie Baron 5 hours ago
I’ve got one of these! It comes with legs, which is the only reason I bought it.
#64
I Dropped My AirPods
Kiss Army 26 minutes ago
I bought a cord to use with my airpods in situations where I worry they may be lost. It works great and has a magnet to keep it together around my neck if I want to take them off for just a few moments.
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OP "I’d like to give an update and say that I found them! It was actually not in frame, It was in a snow pile on the left side, I had to ask my neighbor to turn off his snow blower for a minute and I used the find my app, I had to crawl around on my knees put my ear to the snow and move around in circles, pick up a pile of snow and listen, discard, pick up a pile of snow and listen, discard, Until I eventually found it lol, Also no I was not cleaning the driveway with a broom, that was for the car," (, replaced *dot* not to get hidden, thanks PB :D )
wobbly jelly 1 hour ago
when we had out guttering redone we had a big pile of old black guttering - guess where my black earbud fell?
#65
Smashed A Panel Of Pre-War Glass In A Grade 2 Listed Building. I’m Doing A Job Tidying Up These Very, Very Old Sash Windows. Managed To Smash A Panel. Costly Mistake
Did I say that out loud? 6 hours ago
Even if it's Grade 2 listed, you can still replace the glass. Its not difficult.
Debby Keir 5 hours ago
and you're allowed to put in modern safety glass, just not double glazed.
Load More Replies... whiterabbit 38 minutes ago
I think my bf's house was painted by the same people who painted that window frame.
#66
Mistakes Were Made. So Yeah. Apparently You Shouldn't Put Vanish On All The Stains
#67
I Just Broke A $5,000.00 Bottle Of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac At Work
#68
Cutting Board Exploded
Turned around after washing my hands and heard a huge crashing noise. It was my cutting board obliterating itself. I assume I cut the food too close to the burner and it got hot, then when I washed my hands with cold water it cooled down too fast. Either that or there’s a ghost that hates cutting boards.
LillieMean 11 hours ago
A glass cutting board is the fastest way to dull knives. I wonder why they even exist.
amy lee 2 hours ago
The noise it makes is horrid. Only reason I can think of is that cut can go on the dishwasher?
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Sold My iPad In Public Space At Night In Minnesotan -10 F Temperature, Turned Out It's Fake
AtMostAFabulist 14 hours ago (edited)
I think the word replica on the top left should have been a hint there would be a problem
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
At - 10F you should be able to freeze anything!
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#70
My Wife Bought Me A Ceramic Oura Ring For Christmas. It Slipped Off Of My Finger In The Shower And A Huge Chunk Chipped Off On Day 1
WindySwede 7 hours ago
sort of reminds me of the collars in Battle Royale (2000), these are packed with lithium instead of explosions though
#72
Made The Mistake Of Not Asking Market Price… $53 Per Shrimp
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago
Happened to me in Singapore. Not that expensive, but they lost my custom for all the time I was there.
#73
$8k Mistake. Let’s Hope I’m Not Fired
#74
Mistakes Were Made
Zach Taylor 15 hours ago
Hospitals change the sheets after every patient in ED and triage situations.
George Costanza 2 hours ago
This is not expensive. The sheets get taken of and industrially washed between every patient.
#75
My Tesla's Horn Went Off At 4 Am For Over 20 Minutes Uncontrollably, $2000 Fix From Tesla
Zig Zag Wanderer 13 hours ago (edited)
The burglar alarm went off at 3am in my rental house. I couldn't stop it anynway at all, even with the key. Took a hammer to it. It stopped. They tried to charge me for it, but I asked what they suggested I should have done? There was no other solution, and I felt that my neighbours would agree. We never even turned the silly thing on!
Richard Smith 2 hours ago
I hate Tesla with a passion. I'd rather buy a toy electric car from Tonka.
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Which of these is the most expensive? The dropped satellite, the flooded fighter aircraft, the medical bill?
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