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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
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.
Jaya 19 hours ago
Oh no, somebody paid a lot of money for something THEY like, even though you don't like it, how dare they!
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UnclePanda 1 day 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 20 hours 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 20 hours 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 20 hours ago (edited)
What are the owners supposed to do? Lock her in a cage?
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Ryan Mercer 6 hours ago
Looks like an Aubusson rug. Not Chinese, French. Can likely be cleaned. I once worked warehouse at an oriental rug store that did specialty cleaning.
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#2
Wife Left The Door Open To The Pool Area. Expensive Robot Vacuum (Bottom And Upside Down) Decides It Wants To Meet The Pool Vacuum
Lotekguy 1 day ago
Then they bred an amphibious little vacuum, and the family lived happily ever after.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 9 hours ago
Thank God it's only the vacuum and not a child. Pools should never be left unsecured!
#3
When The Fire Suppression Foam Is Accidentally Released
Mike F 1 day ago
Wasn't there a quick shot at the beginning of Airplane that looked similar to that?
Laika 1 day ago
They gonna play with the metal planes instead. Plane ducky.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 day 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 1 day ago
Well, at least they will know where to go to k.i.l.l. any residual flames.
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B Hobbs 21 hours 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 21 hours 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
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 1 day 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 21 hours ago
Probably cheaper than that botte! And you get a nice vacation.
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eric p 21 hours 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
Mel in Georgia 21 hours 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!
keyboardtek 1 day 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.
Rebecca Joan 15 hours ago
Wine people are so pretentious. They did an experiment and no one could even tell the difference btw the expensive and the cheap wine. Give me a break with the “notes of” blah blah blah.
WubiDubi 16 hours ago
The broken glass fragments would sink. I'd risk drinking it after putting it through a standard flour sieve..
nicholas nolan 1 day ago
Wednesday. It's the '48 that smells like Thursday.
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#5
Meanwhile At The Mercedes Dealership... And A Brand New G Wagon
Billo66 24 minutes ago
As an expert mechanic my entire life. Having been to college and recieved my ASE certification and working in high end dealerships. I can can accurately say that, it's not ideal when this occurs.
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#6
Do Not Park On The Beach
Eggwodd 23 hours ago
I love that word, it's not used as much as it should be.
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WindySwede 1 day 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 23 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.
Partypants 19 hours ago
This happens where I live and it's a fantastic way to spend time people watching in the wild.
Riley Quinn 15 hours ago
No one ever mentioned tides. What are they? I'm really stupid, so I don't understand why parking on the beach is a bad idea.
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
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 1 day ago (edited)
"No sympathy for the self-inflicted' - what my Mum would say to me when I had a hangover.
Auntriarch 23 hours ago
Your mum obviously went to the same mother school as mine 🙄
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Toujin C'Thlu 1 day 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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Charlotte 16 hours ago
Every year someone's fishing hut goes through the lake near me, often along with the truck they were using to retrieve the fishing hut. There's some redneck status attached to being the person whose hut is out the longest and/or people are disorganized and wait waaay too long to retrieve them
UnclePanda 1 day ago
I wish we had an earlier photo of the driver when they heard the first creak.
Riley Quinn 16 hours ago
Seems this clown had less sense than we did as kids, because we knew not to even walk on the ice unless it was solid.
Layla Holston 20 hours 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
#8
Scored $320 Of Lumber For $90. Now I Get To Pay $500 For A New Windshield
Follow me for more money saving tips.
I honestly thought that everyone else that this happened to just wasn’t being careful enough. Send the judgement. I deserve it.
UnclePanda 1 day 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 20 hours 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.
Max Robitzsch 9 hours ago
That's why you fold down the passenger seat and put the wood into the footwell.
Riley Quinn 16 hours ago
I was at Home Depot several times a week picking up orders and supplies for work, and if I had a nickel for every time I saw some weekend DIYer committing this senseless act of self-vandalism, I'd be rich.
Michael Melfa 16 hours ago
Did it myself a couple years ago. Throwing 2×4s into the bed of the pick up. One slid along the length of the bed, kicked up, and went right through the back window.
Beth Wheeler 17 hours ago
Should have either laid the back seats down or put it on the roof and tied it down really good.
#9
A Train Car In Minnesota Carrying Corn Had A Leak
Jessica Daus-Warner 23 hours ago
wildlife in the area still tell stories of the great golden path.
KatWitch57 1 day 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.
Upstaged75 1 day ago (edited)
I'd worry about them getting hit by another train.
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UnclePanda 1 day ago
And nothing outside of the rails. I like the image but it's simply too neat.
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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
$5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
Debby Keir 1 day ago
Hmm, thought that even the newer plastic type notes had a metal strip through them, so already a no no for a microwave.
#11
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 1 day ago
These never seemed like a good idea in the first place. Too easy for something to go wrong.
WindySwede 1 day ago
needs more censors to spot is something is in the way!
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#12
Cement Truck Mishap
UnclePanda 1 day ago
It it wasn't so heavy, I'd be tempted to keep it and take up tailgating as my new hobby.
Kid Murray 1 day ago
Seriusly? There's an ad covering this piece. No way to close it. F**k off BP.
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
Someone At Porsche Is Getting Fired Today
Spidercat 1 day ago
Ooooh that's a GT3 RS with a special racing paint job...£250K roughly depending on the options 🤦🏻♂️
Lila Allen 1 day ago
Thanks... some of us aren't car people. All I saw is car with ugly paint job
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Subaru645 23 hours ago
In my best British voice, “Here we are witnessing a rare, once in a lifetime event, a Porsche carefully drinking from crocodile infested waters “
Max Robitzsch 8 hours ago
To be fair, that was a design flaw waiting to happen, with no fencing or even kerbs or wheel stops. It's like someone said "This area is just for display, adding something in front would MAR THE LINES!" - Well, the cost for your display has just gonne up...
#14
Residential Homes Built In South Dakota Over Undisclosed Abandoned Gypsum Mine... Sinkhole Renders Entire Neighborhood’s Property Values Now Worthless
IORN 1 day ago
The operative word is "undisclosed". Whoever did the "undisclosure" has to pay.
Lila Allen 23 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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mhoulden 1 day ago
When I was looking at buying a house I went on a historic maps website to see if there were any old mines or rubbish dumps in the area. In the UK the National Library of Scotland has detailed maps going back to the early 1800s. The site is maps dot nls dot uk
MoMcB 17 hours ago
When we sold our last house in Lancashire, they looked at mine maps from the 1800s to make sure there weren’t any pits nearby.
Load More Replies... NapQueen 1 day ago
Great for hide and seek though. Just make sure you are found before they fill the sink hole back up.
WindySwede 1 day ago
or to get out *before* the next sinkhole buries you!
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Skywitness 20 hours ago
I visited a home in Queen Creek AZ that had a trench that was easily 10 feet wide and over 100 feet long. The depth was 6- 8 feet. It was caused by the ground settling due too excessive ground water pumping. That home had a gang plank you needed to cross to get to the front door.
John Dilligaf 13 hours ago
that's happening in more and more places in Arizona. It also effects roads and railroads.
Load More Replies... Charlotte 16 hours ago
Challenge is figuring out who to sue & coming up with the lawyers $ while you have no place to live
Load More Replies... bntxy64kf8 21 hours ago
I would guess that being in South Dakota is what renders it worthless. 🙃
Brenard 22 hours ago
Gypsum is not even that exiting... it is a key ingredient in drywall and that is about it.
Charlotte 16 hours ago
Drywall is a major building material in many places
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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) 1 day ago
We've already seen Trump proving that one.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 day ago
Swamping ONE vehicle wasn't good enough?? 😂 What made them think a 2nd one would do the trick??
WindySwede 7 hours ago
Wiki: " Wakeboard boats also known as wakeboats, surfboats or tow boats are designed to create a large, specially shaped wake, for a wakeboarder to jump the wakes from side to side doing aerial tricks. They developed from the Runabout type."
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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
Who Needs Outriggers?
Lotekguy 1 day ago
And thus was the house cleft in twain. (I always liked that phrase, but rarely get a chance to use it.)
UnclePanda 1 day ago
Fortunately, there just happened to be some roofers on hand to repair the damage.
Max Robitzsch 8 hours ago
It looks like he HAD outriggers out (would be weird to only have them out on one side) - but presumably hit a weak/soft patch of ground - those round plates seem pretty small.
#17
Broke My Leg By Standing Too Fast And Falling Onto Myself
UnclePanda 1 day ago
Choosing to focus on success, I feel the need to point out that Brian is still in the lead.
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Beth Wheeler 16 hours ago
He must have some kind of underlying medical problems for that to happen.
#18
$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 1 day ago
Prob cost $20.00. But they charge the patient $65 grand. Like everything else in America.
Spidercat 1 day 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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Ziggyc 1 day 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 1 day ago (edited)
Me2, I get a $5600 injection every month, costs me $20 (Oz)
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 22 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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Lee451 Henderson 20 hours ago
My liver doctor had me on rezdiffra, which cost $4000/pill. Medicaid paid for it, Medicare will not.
Chich the witch 14 hours ago
Sad but out of curiosity I looked up the price of a howitzer round to compare it to. 155mm in 2023 were 3,300Euro EACH. We waste far more money on toys for fat old men to swing their d***s around with. Think of what we could achieve if we could get past the greedy monkey stage.
Lauren Wilder 19 hours ago (edited)
The IV medication for spiders and snake bites is abhorrently expensive.
Kira Okah 17 hours ago (edited)
It is incredibly difficult to produce, that is why. Needs a milking farm and an animal medium (usually horses in the case of snakes) to produce iirc.
Load More Replies... 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
Big Oof
UnclePanda 1 day ago (edited)
You definitely need to hit all the right keys at the press conference.
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Chich the witch 14 hours ago
I read the article and the movers said In 35 years of doing their job, this had never happened before.
Load More Replies... Sonder Toffee 13 hours ago
I made my dad a mini replica of his baby grand (with 2-3 models before its was exact) and this whole scene sounds like a very fun next project
keyboardtek 1 day 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.
#20
My Neighbor Parks This Expensive Car On The Street
Lila Allen 1 day ago
Thank you for the assist to us non car people. All I see is black car.
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nottheactualphoto 13 hours ago
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
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TTorrest Author 19 hours ago
Driveway parking isn't a guarantee against damage. Two of our cars got slammed last month... both were in our driveway. Good times.
#21
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
Nicole Weymann 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.
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
That Can’t Be Cheap
Scott Rackley 19 hours ago (edited)
More metal fatigue than load caused that.
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That looks more like a failure in something that SHOULD have held rather than an operator mistake?
#23
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 1 day ago
This neighborhood is seriously going do the dogs *tsk tsk tsk*
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Lotekguy 1 day ago
Next time, don't spend a lot on sunglasses while buying store-brand dog food.
Robert T 1 day 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.
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HamsterGirl 1 day 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!
Kristie Graves 20 hours ago
I always put my ‘don’t forgets’ on the floor at the top of the stairs. 🙄. Seriously, WHY??? I’m sure I’d remember after I stepped on them.
tori Ohno 19 hours ago
Yeah, that's a dumb place to put them. How about with your keys instead, or are they on the floor too?
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Chich the witch 14 hours ago
Waste of money. Just paying for a name that sounds like something 3rd graders accuse each other of being infected with.
#24
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 1 day ago
I can assure you, it took more than 5 seconds to pick this one up.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 21 hours 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 1 day ago
do thwy know what POES means in Afrikaans............... BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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
$300k Video Wall Came Down Today In Vegas
Riley Quinn 14 hours ago (edited)
Yo, Boss, I have an extra skrew, but I got no idea where it goes. BTW, SKREW you, BP.
#26
I Installed My Own Microwave Today And Saved $150 In Installation Fees
Nikki Sevven 19 hours ago
I always thought the "microwave over the range" thing was a stupid, impractical idea, starting with "having to overhead lift a heavy thing that's also likely to be scorching hot."
Debby Keir 1 day 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 1 day ago
The extractors are built in and the bottoms of the microwaves have a heat shield and are well insulated.
Load More Replies... Ashtophet’sRevenge 1 day ago
Pro tip, pull out the stove first. Plus you can clean under there…
Stephanie L Thesing 16 hours ago
Unfortunately it’s usually cheaper to get an entire new stove than to just replace the top…
#27
Well
Michael Largey 22 hours ago
Or 🎶🎵 "A three hour tour / A three hour tour / ..." 🎵🎶
Load More Replies... Papa 23 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.
ILoveMySon 12 hours ago (edited)
A woman who was getting divorced purposely let her estranged husband's boat sink during a tropical storm. He didn't want to deal with it or her. We pumped it out, made some repairs and the "Onceunder" was launched.
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
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 20 hours ago
A few more horse's nostrils and you wouldn't tell the difference
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 1 day ago
Why in the name of onlyfans would you have a 10' mirror on the ceiling of a bathroom?
Lila Allen 23 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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#29
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) 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.
Pieter LeGrande 15 hours ago
My local paint store hammers lid on with a rubber mallet, then tapes all the way around the lid to make d**n sure it doesn't come off.
Alex Ruddies 13 hours ago
I'm guessing the guy probably had something catastrophic happen with paint in the past. But on this one, if the lid is plastic, they can randomly pop off. Not often, but they can. Most of the time it's in the shaker (spinning style), but once in a while...
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 14 hours ago
Never occurred to OP to buy a plastic tub to put the paint in just in case he had to stop short or got into a fender bender.
#30
I Didn't Know This Was Possible
UnclePanda 1 day ago
He goes by Clunk now. It's the only word he can say.
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Hollerfloozy 14 hours ago
Cheap cast iron. Look how thin it is. Get you a Lodge or Wagner and these pesky little problems will mostly be a thing of the past.
Riley Quinn 14 hours ago (edited)
This is why you buy a high-quality cast iron skillet that will tolerate temperature changes. Iron is brittle, and cheaply made thin skillets are even more brittle. I own a Lodge that I've had for many years, and they're not that expensive.
Lila Allen 23 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 1 day ago
I've never understood putting glass under a chair that rolls around while someone sits in it. 🤷♀️
veirdbuttrue 14 hours ago
I've literally never heard of this! Is it an American thing?
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Absolutely Shattered
Laszlo Larthlanc 1 day 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.
#33
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".
Marleina Hershberg 19 hours ago
And you lived to post it? If it was en route to work, weren't you inside the car that exploded, or had you stopped off somewhere and gotten out and then it happened?
Michael Largey 22 hours ago
"Sorry I'm late for work . I had a breakdown on the way." "What happened to your car?" "...Car?"
#34
Son Decided To Swallow A Nickel And Turn $.05 Into $4400.00
Tobias Reaper 1 day ago
i heard he called the hospital to check on him they told him still no change
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 day 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 23 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.
Pieter LeGrande 15 hours ago
That's the easy part. Going through the p*o for the next week to make sure it comes out is the next stage.
Rebecca Joan 15 hours ago
Was he choking on it? Cuz otherwise just wait for it to pass in the p**p.
#35
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 1 day ago
Reddit OP also did this: (dark BP for not being able to post links! Se link below)
Reemerger 1 day ago
At what point in the chain of events did that seem like a good thing to do?
Lila Allen 23 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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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!
#37
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 1 day ago
This is her subtle way of saying she does not see you as son-in-law material.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago (edited)
Today? There's a serious problem here.... (edit: ah, thought it was twice today 😅)
Marleina Hershberg 18 hours ago
That is exactly how the title makes it sound; like twice in one day.
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 day ago
would she say the same if crashed into some one else on public road? "Why tf are you not in school/working!?"
Dee Hampton 20 hours ago
My gal-pal's ex-bf put diesel in her petrol car. She paid hundreds to get it fixed. He took it out to the petrol station straight away and put diesel in it. You know the theory that, when blokes are too chicken to break up with you, they do something unforgivable . . . . .
tori Ohno 18 hours ago
If not, we'll be meeting up in court. And if girlfriend takes her mom's side? Her mom can keep her.
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Boss Isn’t Gonna Be Happy With That One
keyboardtek 1 day ago
Must not have called the underground cable location people before they dug.
UnclePanda 1 day 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."
#39
Rag Left In Engine After Repairs Turned To Shreds
Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
Given how many things are left in a surgery patient after being stitched up, I'll let this one slide.
#40
Apparently D And R Look The Same When You're Tired
detective miller's hat 23 hours ago
My poor brother did this the day he got his driver's permit, with Mom in the car.
Lila Allen 23 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 21 hours ago
What's worse is not opening the garage door before backing out. Speaking for a friend.
BarfyCat 22 hours ago
Been there, done that. So did my son... on his first time behind the wheel of his first car.
Brian Droste 19 hours ago
I did that to my garage but not s much. I still could close my garage door.
#41
Saw This House-On-Stilts Fail On My Morning Run Today
Bi.Felicia 16 hours ago
This is in Panama City Beach, FL and the 3 story house got knocked off it's foundation during an EF-3 tornado in January 2024. The house stayed wedged like this, in between it's neighbors for over a year due to legal disbutes between owners and neighbors. Same house was damaged during Hurricane Michael in 2018 and rebuilt. A judge ordered the house be demolished or face $1k fines/daily, demo was completed in Oct 2025, it no longer exists.
#42
Started The Weekend By Popping Off My Crown While Flossing
Lotekguy 1 day ago
It's a corollary of Murphy's Law that such things will always happen on the weekend.
Michael Largey 22 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.
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VioletIndigoMoons 23 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 1 day 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.
Sue User 16 hours ago
I am not sure if it's a full implant but after mine came off ( two times ) they put a post in anf then the cap. They left what was left of original tooth.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day 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 23 hours ago
I use the little tiny bottle brush thingies, don't trust floss
Load More Replies... Dee Hampton 20 hours ago
Like me and my fellow teachers: you hang on until the end of term then go down with some hideous illness on the first day of the holidays. One guy got dengue fever from a sandwich that had been left in the staffroom fridge.
Mel in Georgia 21 hours 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.
Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
My front tooth crown fell off several times and had to be reglued. The last time it popped out into tall grass, and I said skrew it and shelled out for an implant.
#43
Neighbors Removed Their Retaining Wall Without Realizing It Was Providing Support For This Other Wall, Ultimately Leading To Its Failure
Spidercat 1 day ago
No sympathy here. Hire a surveyor amd get it all worked out by professionals... idiots.
Bill Swallow 21 hours ago
Oh, I'm sure the people responsible *were* professional idiots.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 17 hours ago
Surely, there is some kind of permit required to do this type of work?
#44
Merry Christmas! I Got An Extremely Expensive Drone And My Sister's Dog Broke It When Nobody Was Watching
Kelly Scott 19 hours ago
Sounds like people don't watch their dogs any more than they watch their kids.
Earonn - 1 hour ago
Sounds more like people don't care to make their expensive stuff safe from accidents.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 1 day ago
I'd watch an "Extremely Expensive Drone " like a hawk, and might be tempted to fricassee sis AND the dog.
#45
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 23 hours ago
The cookies tasted better in general - but the earbuds sounded nicer
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 1 day 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.
Kali Chaos 18 hours ago
What brand of tape measure, bc it sounds very durable.
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Jedi Panda 22 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.
#46
Took This On My Way To Work, Guy Forgot To Secure His Boat To His Trailer And Stomped On The Breaks To Stop
Lotekguy 1 day ago (edited)
It's a real time-saver when you wreck the boat before you even get it all the way to the water.
Geoffrey Scott 17 hours ago
I always liked the one where the driver neglected to raise the landing gear on a semi trailer. Uncoupled it across a state hwy.
UnclePanda 1 day 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.
#47
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 1 day 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.)
M O'Connell 19 hours ago
I would demand to know which god their assessor attributed this act to.
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Richard Smith 22 hours ago
Is that a Toyota? What's the problem? It'll fire right up. Drive the free firewood home.
#48
Shower Door Spontaneously Shattered Behind Me
Upstaged75 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Microscopic air bubbles trapped in glass can expand with temperature changes and cause the glass to shatter...
Lila Allen 23 hours ago
Really??? Ok now I don't feel so badly. Our shower door did this and I thought it was the cleaner I used.
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#49
My Shower Was Leaking So I Tried To See If I Could Fix It. I Broke It Instead
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day 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
#50
An Expensive Mistake... Scout 380 LXF... I Assume Pushing Seven Figures. Maybe Over
eric p 21 hours ago
While a nice boat this is NOT 7 figures. Closer to 500k, which is honestly too much
Bob Brooce 11 hours ago
New it probably cost 800k or more. Plenty of people that buy a boat like that will put 150k worth of outboard motors on the back. Some of the people that buy a boat like that will put 500k worth of outboard motors on the back The two on this boat could be between 60 and 160k. Of course even if it's newish, replacement cost is considerably less.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 14 hours ago
Several pics showing that some people have enough money to buy pricey boats but not the smarts to know they need to operate on water and not asphalt :p
#51
Mistakes Were Made
Speak easy buttercup 21 hours ago
Looks like he sure gave it a try tho! 🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 12 hours ago
Putting wet devices in rice, not that this clown did that, is a myth. There are other ways to get the fluid out.
#52
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 1 day ago
Let's put a glass back on these ridiculously expensive devices people carry around all day! What could possibly go wrong?
David Paterson 1 day ago
Black ice can cause damage a lot more expensive than this. Broken hip for instance.
TonjaLasagne 11 hours ago
When I purchase a new iPhone, I ALWAYS purchase a new Otterbox at the same time. I learned my lesson years ago with my very first cell phone, which was an Ericsson brick…I dropped it and c*****d the little window. Made me mad! I still have that phone somewhere in a box but I learned to buy a case for my phone as soon as I purchased it.
#53
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) 1 day ago
He's just used an angle grinder for that. No proper sharpening.
highwaycrossingfrog 19 hours ago
My parents got their oven professionally cleaned, and they did such a good job they cleaned all the numbers off the temperature dial
Nuku Nyara 20 hours ago
That's why I sharpen my own knives. I also have a Mac knife but a different style and two Japanese knives I've of owned for 20 years and I just break out the Japanese sharpening block about 4 times a year for deep sharpening and I use a small hand sized one in between for touch-ups.
Chich the witch 14 hours ago
Same here. I also have had to warn people how sharp they are. Everyone seems to be used to dull knives.
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Dump Truck Thinks Its Kool-Aid Man And Damages River Spirit Expo Center At Tulsa Fairgrounds
Geoffrey Scott 17 hours ago (edited)
A guy I know who owned an excavating company told me of a time he was pulling ahead after dropping a load of gravel and "it got real bright out". Guess that's what happens when the dump body contacts an overhead power line.
#55
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 23 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.
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shg stewart 21 hours 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.
Speak easy buttercup 21 hours ago
Or they are closed because they got a case of Corona and got drunk! 🤣🤣
Load More Replies... TonjaLasagne 11 hours ago
And from that moment on, he was forever known as Butterfingers. I’ll bet he didn’t bother to pay for insurance on this one either.
Riley Quinn 12 hours ago
For people who don't own a computer, I understand spending the money on a phone. Just spend a few bucks more for a case. I put my phones in protective cases from the minute I buy them, but they aren't as popular as they were ten yo.
SummerVeE 13 hours ago
I was filming a video on my friend's 11th storey balcony and dropped her phone... It was still recording the video when we found it lodged in the lawn below. The phone was fine! (Samsung). I was sitting on the toilet and my iPhone fell out of my pocket onto the plush bathroom matt and it c*****d.
#56
That's An Expensive Way To Start A Vacation In The Vacationland State
Dave Platt 1 day 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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Chich the witch 13 hours ago
Out quadding and came upon a car and airstream parked by a lake way down an old logging road. Asked him how he got in there. Told me the week before along the road we had just come in on. There had been a major storm and our quads had difficulty. Only way in. Guessing its still there or he hired a Sikorsky.
M O'Connell 19 hours ago
They managed to keep the trailer behind them, that's a little bit of a win.
#57
Guy Who Mows My Lawn Somehow Did This While Mowing
Upstaged75 1 day 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 1 day ago
did they have to pay or was it you "who had not cleared debree of lawn"?
Load More Replies... CD Mills 17 hours ago
Just be glad the rock hit the glass and not them! My husband was mowing out at the church, ran over a piece of wire and it shot the wire out the back, through his leather boot and logged into the front of his calf right up against the bone! Lawn mowers can add some serious speed to projectiles!
BookFanatic 20 hours 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.
Mike F 1 day ago
That's what happens when you don't pay attention to the direction of your discharge chute.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago (edited)
As the actress said to the bishop....
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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? 1 day ago
Even if it's Grade 2 listed, you can still replace the glass. Its not difficult.
Debby Keir 1 day ago
and you're allowed to put in modern safety glass, just not double glazed.
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whiterabbit 20 hours ago
I think my bf's house was painted by the same people who painted that window frame.
Nuku Nyara 20 hours ago
They use a razor blade to clean the excess paint off the glass. I know this because I used to do window cleaning for a janitorial job over 15 years ago.
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Today At Work, A Coworker Crashed A Trolley Full Of Plates Needed For A Function
#60
Jet Airways Bus Accidently Hit The Belly Of Air India Flight After The Driver Reportedly Lost Control At The Wheels
Stardust she/her 1 day ago
This post must be nearly a decade old as Jet Airways doesn’t exist anymore (at least in my country).
Serena Myers 1 day ago
2015, according to original post, so yes, you're right.
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 1 day ago
Was the prop spinning? Because you'd have two very different faces being made by the driver.
#61
Moved Into The New House And Found Out Our Toddler Broke Our 65” TV
WindySwede 1 day 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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Mistakes Were Made. So Yeah. Apparently You Shouldn't Put Vanish On All The Stains
Chich the witch 13 hours ago
Don't feel bad. I discovered that you do not put dish soap in a dishwasher.
Forrest Hobbs 12 hours ago
wayne whitson: Vanish in the UK is a stain-removing laundry additive containing an oxygen bleaching compound (and other ingredients). The issue is that the bleaching compound decomposes at some temperature over 40 Celsius, giving off gaseous oxygen, so you get this sort of thing if you use it with a 60 Celsius wash.
Load More Replies... Nuku Nyara 20 hours ago (edited)
I would run the wash cycle without detergent in order to clean the stains and rinse the excess soap out from the stain treatment, then add detergent for a second cycle for the actual cleaning of the rest of the garments.
#63
This Is What An Expensive Mistake Looks Like. Quarter Inch Hole In Inaccessible 20 Conductor Cable
WindySwede 1 day 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? 1 day ago
That's what pipe/cable detectors were invented for.
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 1 day 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 21 hours 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.
Chich the witch 13 hours ago
Worked with a carpenter who said there was nothing in the wall and then put his first nail right into a waterline.
#64
I Just Broke A $5,000.00 Bottle Of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac At Work
#65
I Dropped My AirPods
WindySwede 1 day ago
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 21 hours ago
when we had out guttering redone we had a big pile of old black guttering - guess where my black earbud fell?
#66
I Was About To Go To Bed
WindySwede 1 day 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)
Otto Katz 15 hours ago
The trick is to use an underscore instead of the period to not have it go hidden?
Load More Replies... Nuku Nyara 20 hours ago
This happened to me and my roommate had the bright idea to throw a bath towel on it. I had to rinse the towel in the shower forever before putting it through the wash. I had to explain to him that you can't put that much soap into a front load washer as it would shut down due to too much foam. He had no clue 🙄
Sara Shamsabadi 20 hours ago
honestly, I'd still go to bed. It'll be there to clean up in the morning.
Debby Keir 1 day ago
What was the liquid - washing or toilet cleaning? Makes a difference to what it could do to the flooring.
#67
Sold My iPad In Public Space At Night In Minnesotan -10 F Temperature, Turned Out It's Fake
AtMostAFabulist 1 day ago (edited)
I think the word replica on the top left should have been a hint there would be a problem
K Ma 23 hours ago
Got a replica twenty in change at a local grocery store. It felt slightly different; smooth, like a new bill but not exactly like a new bill. Thank goodness I checked it before I left the counter. Watch out for these.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
At - 10F you should be able to freeze anything!
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 15 hours ago
Someone was paying in cash where I work and one of the twenties felt wrong, I took a closer look and it said ‘Prop Money’ on it! I gave it back to the customer (I know I’m supposed to pass it on to the police, but I don’t think they care that much) and advised him to go back to whoever gave him the cash (a wage packet) and ask for a proper twenty pound note. I have never seen prop money before, but it does explain how they can afford to have huge suitcases full of dosh. At first glance it was convincing and it was the feel that made me look closer.
Blackmoon The Dragon 15 hours ago
ALWAYS check the bills before giving any merchandise to anyone ESPECIALLY if they pay in 100s. also WHY IS THE GUY GIVING YOU $800 FOR AN IPAD? thats the first indicator that its a scam. no ones gonna pay over market value for a used product unless its for a scam or a money laundering scheme.
Nuku Nyara 19 hours ago
My husband brings the money pen with us whenever we sell one of our arcades.
#68
Cat Jumped Off The Samsung Serif TV And It Fell. Replacing The Frame Costs $1500
Chewie Baron 1 day ago
I’ve got one of these! It comes with legs, which is the only reason I bought it.
Sue User 15 hours ago
It looks like they put a regular TV plastic or metal frame.
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Made The Mistake Of Not Asking Market Price… $53 Per Shrimp
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
Happened to me in Singapore. Not that expensive, but they lost my custom for all the time I was there.
#70
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 1 day ago
A glass cutting board is the fastest way to dull knives. I wonder why they even exist.
amy lee 23 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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Sue User 15 hours ago (edited)
A roomba e isn't that expensive but alas it is the top post.
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Chinese Mining Farm - Flood Damage
Christopher Doke 18 hours ago (edited)
I was building my son's computer during the video card shortage after waiting months for a card we gave up and basically bought one for double the price. These jerks are the reason we had to do so.
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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 1 day ago
sort of reminds me of the collars in Battle Royale (2000), these are packed with lithium instead of explosions though
#73
Mistakes Were Made
Zach Taylor 1 day ago
Hospitals change the sheets after every patient in ED and triage situations.
George Costanza 22 hours ago
This is not expensive. The sheets get taken of and industrially washed between every patient.
#74
$8k Mistake. Let’s Hope I’m Not Fired
#75
My Tesla's Horn Went Off At 4 Am For Over 20 Minutes Uncontrollably, $2000 Fix From Tesla
Richard Smith 22 hours ago
I hate Tesla with a passion. I'd rather buy a toy electric car from Tonka.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day 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!
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David Paterson 1 day ago
Which of these is the most expensive? The dropped satellite, the flooded fighter aircraft, the medical bill?
CD Mills 17 hours ago
I would figure the satellite but, in this day, and age, it's probably the medical bill or groceries!
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 5 hours ago
Our city transit authority just added double decker busses to a couple of routes. We have low rail bridges downtown, so they have to stay to their route to fit under the taller ones. A couple days ago one had to detour and picked the wrong underpass. It's a one and a half decker now.
David Paterson 1 day ago
Which of these is the most expensive? The dropped satellite, the flooded fighter aircraft, the medical bill?
CD Mills 17 hours ago
I would figure the satellite but, in this day, and age, it's probably the medical bill or groceries!
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 5 hours ago
Our city transit authority just added double decker busses to a couple of routes. We have low rail bridges downtown, so they have to stay to their route to fit under the taller ones. A couple days ago one had to detour and picked the wrong underpass. It's a one and a half decker now.
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