Messing up badly is part of the human condition. We’ve all done it before. Some of us have even done it recently, perhaps even earlier today. Maybe my new pants even have a coffee stain in the general crotch area, just for argument’s sake.
If you’re feeling a bit red in the face after a recent blunder , console yourself with these pics. There’s no way you messed up this badly.
“That’s a lot of damage.”
I’m having a lot of trouble unpacking what happened here. How is the van at that angle? How is the gas station roof resting on it? How much will it all cost?
“Crash in California.”
Vehicular collisions happen every day, but some of them just boggle the mind. Is this SUV trying to assert dominance by climbing on top of the other cars?
“Going through the drive through with too tall of a vehicle.”
If you’re driving a rented U-Haul, there’s one rule: assume you don’t know how big it is, and drive incredibly carefully. Also, don’t go through drive-thrus.
“Groundskeeper accidentally sprayed weed killer instead of fertilizer on a school’s football field.”
I like to think this groundskeeper just grabs a bottle of whatever when it’s time to spray the field, and this time he made the wrong pick.
“When you use the wrong cheat code.”
The best part about this is that the boat’s trailer is nowhere in sight. It’s like the driver lost their boat and then just decided to cut their losses and drive off.
“Bender fender, hit and run. Long Beach, CA.”
There’s nothing like seeing the aftermath of a chain reaction. You have to be driving pretty fast to cause three separate rear-enders.
“Slipped in the shower, landed on the toilet.”
Of all the things I can think of to break your fall, an angular, hard porcelain toilet would have to be near the bottom of the list.
“I was delivering Starbucks for Uber and saw this.”
I know that air conditioning units are supposed to be there for cooling purposes, but this just seems extreme. The air around that unit is certainly well conditioned, though.
“Snowbirds are back in Florida.”
Florida is full of these narrow little canals. You’d think it would be impossible to crash a car, let alone an RV, into one, but here we are.
“Transfer slab collapsed as they were pouring concrete in a highrise building near Gallery Square.”
When you see a construction mess-up this bad, you just have to wonder who forgot to carry the 5 when they were drawing up the plans.
“Today on ‘Air Crash Investigations’…”
It seems like the more expensive a car is, the more likely it is to take flight and crash into something. Some cars have just a bit too much turbo for their drivers to handle.
“Holding hands… awww.”
If you’ve ever known an aircraft mechanic, they’ll tell you that fixing planes isn’t cheap. When nuts and bolts cost thousands of dollars apiece, I’d hate to think what this might cost.
“Ship carrying 1,100 Porsches and other luxury cars is burning and adrift.”
Fun fact: under the rules of maritime law, this ship is essentially in a ‘finders keepers’ situation. If you can get it under control, it’s yours.
“Wind turbine fell over.”
That wind turbine appears to have a disturbingly shallow foundation for how tall it is. Maybe that’s why it fell over. Either way, I’m glad it’s not my job to clean it up.
“That’s a lot of data cabling.”
I hope those cables weren’t connecting anything critical, because if they were, they aren’t anymore. And it’s going to be a gigantic headache for some poor technician to fix.
“Beachfront property.”
There’s nothing like buying a place that’s so close to the beach that it’s literally in the ocean. You have to think it won’t be long before the sea claims it altogether.
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“The new footpath and gate at my work.”
This comes so close to being a nicely thought-out little area. But there’s an aspect that’s pretty hard to look past. And it makes you wonder how anybody okayed this installation.
“Omaha, Nebraska—9’ 10” bridge…”
If you live somewhere with one of these bridges, waiting for the next person to smash into one becomes a beloved local pastime. Less so for the drivers, we guess.
“Delivery robot tries to walk across undried cement.”
When you order delivery, you are taking a risk that traffic or weather might slow things down — you usually don’t think of technology that can’t detect wet cement being a big deal. But here we are.
“A plaque at my high school near the main entrance.”
You see this sort of thing on cakes all the time. But at least with icing it’s not so hard to wipe it off and start over — somebody must have thought it would be too much effort to re-do this plaque to get it right and just shrugged.
“Someone sent the fuel truck a little too hard.”
You’d expect drivers of fuel trucks would take quite a lot of care with their cargo, given its tendency to catch fire, not to mention how expensive it is. Maybe there was a bee in the cab of this truck?
“Excavator sank in the mud during a rising tide in Hingham Harbor, Massachusetts. 3/18/22”
The thing about a sinking excavator is that now you need an excavator to excavate the excavator. It’s a whole, complicated situation.
“Safety third.”
We might not remember so clearly the stage of development where we started fitting square pegs into square holes and whatnot, but that’s no excuse for this. It’s a pretty basic skill, and something anyone employed to fill holes should really have down pat.
“Look out for fish while driving.” “Look out for what?” “Look out for fi–“
I can’t even begin to understand this. Was it a fish that jumped out of the water, then froze to the car? Was it frozen all along? I need answers.
“Something’s not quite right…”
No staircase is safe without a good, sturdy railing, but this one takes it too far. It would have been easy to not cut off access to the next level, right?
“One of the live music venues in Minneapolis I love is going to be closed indefinitely….that’ll do it.”
Buses typically have set routes to follow, and none of them should take the bus through a building. Also, buses tend to be pretty good at stopping, so it’s a mystery as to how this happened.
“I believe I can fly…”
Okay, so buses at airports have less defined routes than on the roads — but still, trying to sneak a bus underneath a plane is a bad idea. Pretty sure someone’s flight just got delayed.
“So mate, how bad was the flooding in Gympie last week?….He sent me this.”
I can’t believe that flooding was so bad that it stranded an ATV 20 feet above the road. Then again, I can’t think of a plausible alternative explanation.
“Prickly predicament”
Cactuses don’t just end up in your windshield by accident. They don’t fall out of the sky, or anything, so this driver must have made an awful mistake. Also, this gives a good view of how woody and tree-like the interior of a cactus can be.
