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Mistakes and accidents are unavoidable. They're part of our lives. But don't worry, this isn't an insurance ad. It's a piece on the subreddit ‘That Looked Expensive.’
It's an online community, where people share photos, gifs, and videos of mistakes, accidents, catastrophes, and disasters that cost a small fortune.
We're talking a supercar storage catching fire, children knocking over a $70K sculpture, and many more hilarious, er, I mean, costly mishaps. Continue scrolling to check them out and take a look at Bored Panda's earlier article on the subreddit after you're done, too!
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When You Live In Svalbard, Norway And Forgot To Close The Window To The Home Office
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A Huge Boulder Crashed Into A House In Tyrol, Austria Today. Luckily, No One Was Injured
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The Golden Ray. 4200 Cars In There. 14 Months Set Up To Start The Removal
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The Ss Princess May Was A Steamship Built In 1888. The Ship Is Best Known For Grounding In 1910, Which Left The Ship Sticking Completely Out Of The Water. This Is One Of The Most Famous Shipwreck Photographs.
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Not As Expensive As Some Of The Stuff We See Here, But The Angle Of The Photo Is Great
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A £1 Million ($1.4 Million) Lamborghini Based Bat-Mobile Got Into An Accident With A Renault Scenic
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I Can Only Imagine How Difficult This Was To Clean Up/Replace 100 Years Ago
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Yesterday A Woman Who Decided To Use A Right Turn As An Opportunity To Do A Spontaneous U Turn, Hit My Dad’s Stingray. He’s Had It Since I Was A Baby
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A Young Couple Accidentally Vandalized A $500,000 Painting After Believing Art Supplies Near The Artwork Were Intended For Audience Participation
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What Happens When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf
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3 Alarm Fire In Salt Lake City. New Apartments Under Construction Burned Up, Took 12 Businesses With It Including A Porsche Dealership. 65 Firefighters Attended. No Injuries Or Deaths. Still Watering Down The Hotspots Tonight
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Neon Otter 3 years ago
The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
Woets 3 years ago
The lesson is that you don't buy a McLaren because even when you know ow to handle it, someone else will crash into it. Or when you store it safe the whole place will burn down. So you see the McLaren, you don't buy and just walk away and buy yourself a bloody Kia for 1% of the price of a McLaren
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Cori 3 years ago
There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
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Cori 3 years ago
I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
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Benjamin Thor Collier V 3 years ago
Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg 
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
Michelle Brandt 3 years ago
What I've learned is never buy a McLaren and having a fancy car basically means it's going to start on fire or get me into an accident. I'll stick with my Honda, thank you very much!
RandomHumanBean 2 years ago
the mclarens. its always the mclarens. sometimes porches, almost always the mclarens. that is my take-away from this post. dont have a mclaren.
OHIOWAndering_Around 3 years ago
#7...those straight-line Iowa winds. tore the roof off a building I worked in and didn't have to work for a week because of it. best part was that I got paid. the early 00's were great for that kind of thing with a very large company. that was also the straight-line winds that sent a silo roof flying a mile and landed on a car. it wasn't totaled though just took off the back bumper. it was an almost perfect landing.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry for mother nature and sorry for the people who lost loved ones. This was so depressing to see but like a car accident I couldn't stop watching. I'm embarrassed about myself.
Christina DiBlase 3 years ago
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page.
Christina DiBlase 3 years ago
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page. https://doggonehappytraining.com
David Beaulieu 3 years ago
The type of person that has the money and would want a McLaren/Lambo/Ferrari is also the type of person to drive it like an asshole and not care about the cost of destroying it.
Sky Render 3 years ago
None of this even comes close to the most expensive accident in history, the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Nor the most expensive conflict in history, World War II. Though these are at least possible to laugh about, as opposed to being wide-scale tragedies highlighting the failure of humanity as a species...
Rissie 3 years ago
World Wars aren't small failures with relatively big impacts. Their dynamics are immense and hardly start at one specific point in time. They are huge mistakes with huge impacts. Chernobyl was enormous and also not just one person making one mistake. There were structural problems in understanding what the huck they were doing. This list is mostly about stupid small mistakes that end up with a big price tag.
Load More Replies... Neon Otter 3 years ago
The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
Woets 3 years ago
The lesson is that you don't buy a McLaren because even when you know ow to handle it, someone else will crash into it. Or when you store it safe the whole place will burn down. So you see the McLaren, you don't buy and just walk away and buy yourself a bloody Kia for 1% of the price of a McLaren
Load More Replies... Cori 3 years ago
There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
Load More Replies... Cori 3 years ago
I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
Load More Replies... Benjamin Thor Collier V 3 years ago
Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
Michelle Brandt 3 years ago
What I've learned is never buy a McLaren and having a fancy car basically means it's going to start on fire or get me into an accident. I'll stick with my Honda, thank you very much!
RandomHumanBean 2 years ago
the mclarens. its always the mclarens. sometimes porches, almost always the mclarens. that is my take-away from this post. dont have a mclaren.
OHIOWAndering_Around 3 years ago
#7...those straight-line Iowa winds. tore the roof off a building I worked in and didn't have to work for a week because of it. best part was that I got paid. the early 00's were great for that kind of thing with a very large company. that was also the straight-line winds that sent a silo roof flying a mile and landed on a car. it wasn't totaled though just took off the back bumper. it was an almost perfect landing.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry for mother nature and sorry for the people who lost loved ones. This was so depressing to see but like a car accident I couldn't stop watching. I'm embarrassed about myself.
Christina DiBlase 3 years ago
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page.
Christina DiBlase 3 years ago
Great post! Thank you I grew up With a evaluation by a professional dog trainer you take the guesswork out of why your dog is behaving the way they are so that you can better understand them and get the help you need. Once you’ve gotten that help you can really start enjoying your relationship with your dog just as you imagined it would be so that you can proudly and confidently include them in your daily activities without worrying about them behaving badly. Who are we targeting? Puppies? Aggression cases? who want board and train or private lessons? Covid pups that are problems now? We have to be specific to target the right clients. Nipping, jumping pulling on leash, fighting with other dogsIf you need a dog trainer and dog behaviorist reach us fast by PHONE +1 570-575-8504 | https://doggonehappytraining.com where we can talk live about your needs. However, you're welcomed to message us using our Contact Form on the Contact page. https://doggonehappytraining.com
David Beaulieu 3 years ago
The type of person that has the money and would want a McLaren/Lambo/Ferrari is also the type of person to drive it like an asshole and not care about the cost of destroying it.
Sky Render 3 years ago
None of this even comes close to the most expensive accident in history, the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Nor the most expensive conflict in history, World War II. Though these are at least possible to laugh about, as opposed to being wide-scale tragedies highlighting the failure of humanity as a species...
Rissie 3 years ago
World Wars aren't small failures with relatively big impacts. Their dynamics are immense and hardly start at one specific point in time. They are huge mistakes with huge impacts. Chernobyl was enormous and also not just one person making one mistake. There were structural problems in understanding what the huck they were doing. This list is mostly about stupid small mistakes that end up with a big price tag.
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