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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Follow up question : how do you get it back on its tires?
Load More Replies...This kind of reminds me of an old joke, with the number on the grill being upside down. Bear with me, I’m terrible at telling jokes! The local lake has a new guy on the boat rental stand. He’s got his little megaphone and he’s making sure the boats come back on time. “Number 91, bring your boat back, your time is up” “Number 91, please come in your time is up” Manager “we’ve only got 20 boats!” Trainee “Number 16 are you in trouble?” I did warn you! If you made it this far please groan and remember that’s a minute of your life you won’t get back. No refunds!
Reminds me of another one: Two military pilots left base in a helicopter. Later, one radios in and says, "We need you to send another helicopter. This one won't fly." Base replies, "What's wrong with it? Why won't it fly?" "Well, we have a disagreement on that. My co-pilot says it won't fly because it's under water. I say it won't fly because it's upside down."
Load More Replies..." I'm Brian Upturnson, i'm proudly standing in the middle of the pic, i'm a changing working practices specialist. I will be glad to turn your office upside down. "
Load More Replies...What Bird Brain Designed This?
I get the irony, but there is a difference between grounding a plane to work on it and it being able to continue flying after such an event - it has 4 engines and would be able to fly on just two.
Especially since it is a military aircraft, not subject to the safety practices of the airline industry. In an operational capacity, they'd have continued with their mission after striking the bird.
Load More Replies...Your comment still has me laughing even as I type this!
Load More Replies...When You Live In Svalbard, Norway And Forgot To Close The Window To The Home Office
When ordering a birthday cake in winter, there is no need to ask for extra thick icing.
Load More Replies...I’ll be moving to Svalbard, for a 6 month research project, next May. I’m thrilled, truly.
I'm envious. I've always wanted to visit Svalbard.
Load More Replies...I know it’s snow but it looks like somebody has a horrible mold problem or their love for white fuzzy surfaces went too far
My first thought was that it was a fuzzy cover on the sofa...then I saw the rest.
Load More Replies...When A 300k Wall Of Monitors Falls Over
Strange. The first thing that crossed my mind was a sound of the whole "system down". :)
Load More Replies...BM offers a great explanation of exactly what happened (as he worked for the company where it happened) just a couple of comments up👆
Load More Replies...Big Oof
Ohhhh That’s big money, Big, big money… Like $64 million of big money. That poor technician is going to never live it down. I bet he gets calls 10 years afterwards “Hey Neil, how are you? I was just remembering that day when you pressed the wrong button and fired that Vulcan canon at the F 16?? Neil: dammit, after ten years?? Let it go, I have Caller: Yeah you let it go buddy, that’s exactly what happened!! Neil: heavy sigh
Vulcan shoots about 1300 bullets a minute. That makes almost 22 a sec... Now im curious what he did...
No sweat... the government will just happily add more money to the military budget.
Supercar Storage In Cheshire Burned Down...
Nooooooooo. Is that a jaguar XKE in there? Oh I can’t bear it!! Heartbreaking
Haha - that's what the ambulance guys said to me when I was hit head-on by a lorry!
Load More Replies...It was a storage facility for different owners so I doubt it
Load More Replies...Heartbreaking for the classics, but I can't feel sorry for someone who buys a really expensive car and then sticks in in storage and pampers it like a baby. Even the nicest car ever was built to be driven!
In most of Canada there is a good portion of the year that I would not take any car like that out for a drive. Road salt destroys them.
Load More Replies...80+ Mph Winds In Iowa Today
Yes, little ole wind did all that. I work for an insurance company and I can confirm that wind damage is one of most expensive risks to cover and causes more damage each year than any other type of peril. I would need to look it up, but I believe wind damage causes something like 34% of all homeowner claims.
Load More Replies...Has Iowa ever considered moving? Seems like a dodgy neighborhood.
Derecho. Basically an inland hurricane. Cedar Rapids lost an estimated 2/3 of all its trees. Lost 8 in my yard.
I lost 6 trees. It was crazy, I think we all have ptsd from it. I get nervous every time we have a storm now.
Load More Replies...Nick Wylde Would Be Impressed
This is clearly an exhibit for kids, it should be kid-proofed. The fact that it happened just after opening means that it was bound to happen.
Load More Replies...True but even if you're a good parent, bringing your kid with shitty behavior to a place like that is questionable.
Load More Replies...I thought they glued the pieces into place on lego sculptures for exactly this reason
Yes!!! I was just going to say think about how much time went into that! Smh
Load More Replies...someone else said the same thing i explained y they dont anymore
Load More Replies...Remember That Bridge You Guys Built? We Need Another One
Japanese built Choluteca Bridge in Honduras. Strong as all get out, Survived intact the storm that moved the river
Considering the strength of the storm that took out roads leading to and from the bridge, that bridge is an amazing feat of engineering.
Load More Replies...And the bridge remained... just the road to/from went AWOL.
Load More Replies...Engineers: We built a marvel of engineering that extends over this river.
Mother nature: jump-to-th...d51f01.gif
Just needs an extension. You’d still have to keep what’s there anyhow, because of the contours of the old river bottom.
I would have LOVED to see this in action! Nature. GOTTA love it!
It reminds me of spending hours in City Skylines and then handing the controller to my child 😅
A Huge Boulder Crashed Into A House In Tyrol, Austria Today. Luckily, No One Was Injured
Your comment made me snort my hot morning cuppa through my nose. Thank you :-)
Load More Replies...It definitely looks like a future tourist attraction! Where should we stay? How about that guesthouse with half a boulder inside?
Load More Replies...Why hello there. Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Rocky?
I'd just rebuild around it. Maybe hire a sculpture to make something fancy for the inside and the outside.
The Golden Ray. 4200 Cars In There. 14 Months Set Up To Start The Removal
That ship didn't listen to it's mom and went for a swim on a full stomach
Can anyone tell me how it got sliced in that last photo? Amazing image.
The salvage company did it with chains, basically large saws. They pull them under and around the hull, lifting as they cut deeper. There is a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifMT70bM1G0
Load More Replies...Probably delayed by battles between the insurance company and the owners & operators over responsibility.
Streetsweeper vs. Wooden Bridge
"Bridge is unsuitable for motorised vehicles." Yeah, that's a dumbass ...
i don't speak dutch, but i think the sign says "Bridge is not made for motor vehicles" well..
Wow this is like literally around the corner of my work (Deventer, the netherlands). “Not suitable for motorised vehicles” it took a while to fix too. Now they put poles in the middle to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
I'm glad to hear that. Some people simply ignore warning signs
Load More Replies...Another vegen ruining everyone's day because they insisted on using on the organic bridge, not understanding their use of it is worse for the community.
I don't know why you've been downvoted, it's clearly a joke.
Load More Replies...Trying to work out whether it was the weight of the thing that broke the bridge or whether the sweeping mechanism is so powerful it destroyed the wooden deck!
It's a leaf-sweeper, and its definition of 'leaves' is just a bit too broad --- it includes trees and wood. Simple settings error, dial down the tolerance k**b and Bob's your uncle.
Bored Panda is censoring the word k*n*o*b, I'm dying with laughter here.
Load More Replies...Absolutely Smashing
Agree completely, but why was it not better protected from such an occurrence? We all know it's going to happen
Load More Replies...definitely. What kind of parent allows their kids to play chase in a museum? I get that some kids don't listen but if you can't manage your kid's behavior don't take them to a bloody museum.
Load More Replies...At least no gorillas were shot because of inattentive parents. RIP Harambe
This is why we can’t have nice things. Control your children, people. FFS.
put your children on a leash or something if you can't control them. What kind of dumb parents let their children have a chase in a MUSEUM?!?! I hope the parents got charged for it
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.
May be if every one runs to the front and bounces we could get the bow in the water- Or would that not help?
Rattlesnake Bite In The US
EVERYTHING about our(the American) healthcare system is ridiculous.
Load More Replies...I wonder what the 'special' services are... maybe a bandaid? F**k I hate American health care and the desperation it breeds. I can't get over the comparison of if 'breaking bad' had been a Canadian show it would have been a 10 minute episode that ended with covered cancer treatment
Yeah "Mr White-you have cancer-take this to the hospital on Monday" show over folks...
Load More Replies...I'm so, SO glad I live in Australia. Okay, we have more venomous snakes, but if you get bitten the hospital won't charge you a cent for saving your life.
I thought you would say that in Australia the snake will definitely kill you and you won't have to pay a thing😅😅
Load More Replies...I could do 5 surgeries in Europe in a private clinic with these money seriously! So if i ever see a snake in USA it better kill me immediately right?
Probably lots and lots of anti-venom!
Load More Replies...If you think you're well-off because you work hard and all those homeless people are just jerk-offs, take another look at this. What are you gonna do if you just lose $150,000 one day because you are bit by a snake or because your kidneys decide they don't like that medicine? There is ONE unlucky day between you and bankruptcy and the sooner you absorb that fact, the better we'll all be.
Because this is all a scam. They have astronomical prices, give insurance companies discount rates so if you have health insurance you pay a small copay (or nothing), and if you have no insurance and no money some tax payer funded program ends up paying the astronomical price to the hospital -- or worst case scenario, they can claim those massive amounts as operating losses so they don't pay taxes. Meanwhile if you have money and no insurance, like happened to a friend of mine who was in between jobs when he had appendicitis, you're on the hook for the whole thing. He was charged over $60k... 25 years ago. I can't imagine how much it would be today. The system is beyond broken, and they're using our own money to pay lobbyists and bribe politicians to maintain the status quo. Of course they've also convinced the idiots who listen to fox news and trump that we have the best healthcare in the word and "socialized medicine" means "death panels". We are stupid.
Load More Replies...The Ocean Is On Fire In The Gulf Of Mexico After A Pipeline Ruptured
If there isn't an alien invasion before the end of this year I'll be sadly disappointed. God knows, we've had everything else
Before 2019 many people kept saying 'we're going to get a pandemic soon' and we did. I'd keep quiet if I were you in case making statements like this is jinxing us all!!! 😱
Load More Replies...And turtles, and birds, and dolphins, and every other life form in that water. F*****g oil industry. It should’ve already been as extinct as the dinosaurs that made the oil they pump.
Load More Replies...A problem caused by a govt run monopoly, which like many, lack proper oversight because the govt never regulated themselves well, just like the coal disaster in the UK in the 60's
Private companies are even worse when left to self-regulate. BP caused a far larger ecological disaster
Load More Replies...So many levels, types and specifics of wrong. Humans don’t deserve this planet.
Mother Earth will be here long after we're gone. She'll be bruised and limping and look like someone rode her hard and put her away wet, but she will come out on top. We're already killing our own because of stupid stuff. Religion, territory, the need to be right at any cost. We kill for the pleasure of it. And man will get so efficient at destruction there will be no one left.
Squidward must be on your mind. He's worried about SpongeBob.
Load More Replies...Not Entirely Sure How He Managed To Get The Helicopter On Its Side
Wow, I bet this photograph is up on the wall of the insurance company!! Actually my first thought should’ve been…I hope nobody was hurt. Oh well
The Bus: Help! Help!! There's a huge bug on my face.. ooooh get it off.. get it off..
Load More Replies...This one was a touch bad. Happened a long time ago in Kowloon. Also, it's a Robinson so... not terribly surprising.
"We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two," dun du du du dun dun dun
Exactly-I pictured this as one of their little bronzed exhibits!
Load More Replies...I swear, auto modifications are getting out of hand these days.
Well...
Looks bad because the front axle has detached, but that will repair, particularly if the car is sufficiently valuable, insurance will pay. Just makes me want to cry though.
I've noticed that insurance companies tend not to understand what to do with antique automobiles, even though such cars have special antique-car insurance. They tend to 'total' things with would not be difficult repairs, given the difficulty already gone-through in restoring such an automobile.
Load More Replies...I think this model was from before they started using a pig's bladder as airbag, so they had a live pig in their lap as airbag?
Load More Replies...The steel Model T snapped a couple tie rods but the engine compartment looks good. The modern vehicle looks like it took way more damage and will end up totaled. Although it'll no longer be as original or special, I think the model T is at least repairable.
The model T was the 20th model Ford made... He had a hard time copying the German and French for his automobile
I suspect some enthusiast will have a wonderful time putting this back together.
Easy repair on the Ford. The Model T was designed to be repairable by the local blacksmith and the local carpenter - there was nobody else around. A guy I used to go shooting with bought a T chassis, engine and radiator and built himself a "Doctor's Town Car" - he even made the wooden artillery wheel. Local Ford dealer had it on display in his showroom for 6 months, people kept asking "How much?"
Oil Rig Drifted To Shore
I read about this a while ago. The platform was in the process of being tugged to where it's needed when a storm got so bad that the tugboats had to cut the ropes to not endanger their crews. So no, no uncapped well (also they have safety valves that *should* cap the well if due to some reason the pipe gets damaged/torn off).
Load More Replies...*takes a seat. Not long after on the speakerphone: "Little Oil Rig wants to be picked up from Småland"
Load More Replies...While I think this was being towed for use in a new location and ended up in front of a cemetery, there's actually an oil rig graveyard in the bay of Cromarty Firth in Scotland. Oil-rig-gr...816d32.jpg
When they feel their time has come the go to the shore to die
Load More Replies...Due For An Alignment
When two cars love each other anything is possible. :D :D
Load More Replies...I had these as a kid. Just put the two parts together with superglue around the edge.
Car body came off the frame BEFORE?! it flipped off lift? Maybe they were in the process of lowering the body of the car on to the frame and the lift broke....
Not As Expensive As Some Of The Stuff We See Here, But The Angle Of The Photo Is Great
The flat earthers are right! That guy nearly drove off the edge.
oh wow at first glance I thought that was like a weird walkway bridge thing ans I was like why would they drive up there, then I tilted my head. lol
Lol. Thanks for the hint! I was looking at that pic going, interesting. Narrow lane way. easy to fall out of... then noticed the reflection... then read the caption
40m$ To The Sea
This is a deliberate re-staging of an actual accident, used to create a crew training film. The "real" incident happened the year before when a deck hand re-spotted a Royal Navy Buccaneer jet on an aircraft carrier deck but to save time he didn't brake it or chain it down before he disconnected the towing vehicle. One unexpected Atlantic swell later... splash!
This makes sense: someone got the shot, the crowd watching, no one flailing their arms in agony at this happening.
Load More Replies...I saw this picture before, and it's actually deliberate. Part of the making of a safety film. Found some info after image search : "Deliberately dropped into the English Channel off HMS Ark Royal during the making of a Royal Navy safety film about the accidental loss of XT269 (031/R) from Ark Royal 15/2/1972 (which see). The safety training film re-staged the accident, and showed what to do to prevent it happening again"
Is it mid fall or hanging on by its fingernails! Loving the big crowd of looky loos.
This Buccaneer had already been used at a ground training establishment before being SOC (struck off charge). The incident being recreated happened in 1972. Now I'm not saying the RAF and the Fleet Air Arm were careless that year but between them they wrote off 58 aircraft. My favourite story was the RAF Harrier that took a bird strike over West Germany. The pilot ejected but the plane flew on for 40 minutes before crashing near the town of Hutten.
40-million? In 1976, the unit cost of the Blackburn Buccaneer was USD 2-million.
Original incident 1972, recreation 1974 but thanks for pointing out the cost - I couldn't find it . . . it's probably still TOP SECRET!
Load More Replies...50,000 Liters Wine Spill At Bodegas Vitivinos In Spain
Wait alcohol kills germs...we can probably stretch it to a 5 minute rule! Drink that wine!
Load More Replies...A £1 Million ($1.4 Million) Lamborghini Based Bat-Mobile Got Into An Accident With A Renault Scenic
Probably. The scenic is a family car and they build them to resist children !
Load More Replies...For all those asking about the Renault:
https://drivetribe.com/p/1-million-batmobile-has-a-big-crash-YFr5cOkgS1KKFFXvvMWfMQ?iid=SyVe39LsQ9qktr3aSGEGUw K3OiQJapSl...d19db1.jpg
Ever Wonder How Strong A Bull Is?
I love how everybody is hiding behind the fence near the post..like that’s going to save them, If that bull starts towards him they are toast
Grew up on a farm with cattle - for some reason, that probably only the cattle know, they do tend to let fencing do its job. Things that move on the other hand...
Load More Replies...That was in Pamplona, I have zero empathy for the people involved.
Bull wanted to scratch his head and that wheel-well trim did the trick...
It looks like he's wondering who is going to help him get his other horn dislodged so he can go about his business..... Not to mention that he looks like he's lost his sense of humor ~
Load More Replies...I see a spear next to the poor bull. Who'd blame him, poor creature. I hate what people do to animals.
Row, Row, Row Your... Engine
That's when you have a fire.. somebody call the water department..
Load More Replies...This looks like a flash flood situation, so it may have been on dry land until the water started rushing in—-and the crew jumped on the vehicle to avoid being swept away.
"Hey Boss? Good news is we found a water supply, now there is a bit of bad news...."
Must be a hipster fire department insisting on using only locally sourced water. Like any artisan, the fire can come to them if it wants service.
We currently have massive floods around the area I live in (luckily I live in downtown of a big city and am not affected at all - kinda surreal to know people dying in floods just outside the city and not seeing anything out of the ordinary looking out the window) with whole towns washed off the map. Friend works as a fire fighter and showed some pictures and videos, in the end they basically had to watch people get flushed away and abandon towns that still had residents around and couldn't do anything because they couldn't reach them - military and helicopters were dispatched, then nightfall came in. I can easily imagine something like this happening to some of the fire fighters.
With firemen just right now risking and in some cases losing their lifes trying to save people from the floods in my country (documented with fotos quite like this one, as these guys are presumably also in danger)- I really find it hard to cope with the jokes here to be honest
I'm so sorry this sort of calamity is happening in your area. It's both a good and bad thing about human nature that we joke about even the most traumatic events in order to cope. Please know that since we don't know the story behind the photo, it's best to hope that the crew and those they were called out to assist escaped unharmed.
Load More Replies...Guy Hopped A Curb And Totaled 12 New Chevrolet's
I can well imagine the shadow dude standing by the doors in the background here is getting ready to call his boss. The dread.
At least he's not going to be held responsible for any of this if his boss is even vaguely sane. What was he supposed to do, jump in front of the guy and sacrifice his life for cars?
Load More Replies...Driving across 12 cars is not "hopping a curb" - its drunkenly recreating a Bigfoot monster truck show.
Need some context with this. Wonder what the cause of the accident was? Negligence, drunk driving, cellphone inattention, heart attack, mechanical issue, run off the road? The cause will dictate liability. Maybe totaling a dozen new cars was the less catastrophic choice.
There Will Be Meetings
Probably fortunate it collapsed before they finished building it.
Load More Replies...They were pouring the concrete floor when the supports collapsed in the center. If you look at the bottom front you can see some of the wet concrete. It looks like it fell hard enough to take out a couple floors below it as well. Wet concrete is very, very heavy and this is not an uncommon failure (although seldom on such a large scale.)
Load More Replies...I can just picture a bunch of workers stopping in their tracks, watching in awe, mouths agape, slowly dropping the tools from their hands as piece by piece falls into the abyss. Then just turning around and heading toward the parking lot... Day Over.
I Can Only Imagine How Difficult This Was To Clean Up/Replace 100 Years Ago
James’s constant attempts to prove he was the fastest red engine on Sodor finally bit him in the tender.
And Sir Topham Hatt bolted him to the side of the building for all to see.
Load More Replies...this was a popular 'oh s**t' poster in the 80s. Ahem. So I'm told.
I bet it took longer to get it down, than to get that engine back in service
Anyone Missing A Boat?
This is near Cleveland. I drove by this when it happened. Luckily I saw brake lights because I was in that lane
My honky stepdad lost a trailered boat on the interstate near Palm Springs. Insurance company was not kind to him.
So...you're Not Open Today?
Snowfall, I'm guessing? It's heavy stuff,and those roofs are not strong
That was right by me! Like I literally saw it the morning it happened! My roommate said he saw the worker come out and lose his mind
Exton mobil have a refinery near me and we even have to do lockdown drills in case of a chemical leak trust me it sucks
Captainsauce, your games are getting too real. ( he’s a YouTuber)
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
Fiberglass….Not a good material to withstand an accident. Hope your dad finds a really good body shop.
I am so sorry. Some of the others are funny and even hilarious in a way, but this does tug on the old heart strings ...
Not Braking And Entering
True story: my grandfather was a lovely man but a terrible driver, eventually his family convinced him to stop driving he got into so many accidents. Anyway one day he was driving through the east end of London and somehow managed to crash his car into a house, went through the wall and into the front room. He got out, miraculously unharmed to see the owner calmly sitting in an armchair. My grandfather apologised profusely and said he would pay for the damage, only to have the elderly lady in the armchair say "That's alright darling, we're moving out tomorrow, they're knocking the whole place down. Do you want a cup of tea?"
It's brick veneer over a wood-framed structure. Nearly all new "brick" buildings are built this way. Actual masonry is substantially more expensive.
Load More Replies...Let Me Get My Cable Finder
The excavators decided to skip that, which is fairly obvious since there are zero flags in the vicinity of the power panel and telco splice box in the background.
Load More Replies...That's a push driller to get soil and water samples. In one of my past lives as a chemist, they would obtain the samples and I would run the analysis in my mobile lab to see if there was any BTEX from leaking tanks. I have never heard of this happening!
A Young Couple Accidentally Vandalized A $500,000 Painting After Believing Art Supplies Near The Artwork Were Intended For Audience Participation
Who leaves art supplies out unsupervised in reach of the public??? In a a gallery????
Oh no, they put other color splashes where the other color splashes should have been! Well, now it has lost all of the meaning behind it. /s
It's on about the same art level as the bathroom stall door in the gas station.
Load More Replies...Probably not even the artist could distinguish exactly which part of the painting was "damaged" and which was his work.
When this story came out they showed an after and their contribution was awesome and made it a better piece than it was before.
Load More Replies...WELL THEN WHY THE F*CK DID YOU PUT THEM THERE YOU STUPID POSTMODERNIST
How To Not Go Fishing
That's A Lot Of Damage
Same as it was the other day. Double-decker transporter and the last van must've been the highest, caught the canopy and pulled it over smashing the other side into the first and second vans. Still can't see any height restriction signs on it.
Load More Replies...Roads Costs $$$
OK who got their structural engineering degree from the ads in the back of Popular Mechanics??
This is worse than lack of engineering, this is lack of common sense. I don't see ANY structure designed to deal with sideways pressure - it looks like all they did was stamp down the soil, then put tiles on the side. How was that ever supposed to hold up?!
Load More Replies..."I don't understand how this happened, the mayor's brother-in-law swore he'd use only the best materials"
this is Turkey. and erdoğan still gets votes just by saying "we've built roads!"
It Was Glued
Amazing how often an ugly facade is applied to a pretty building.
That's not "pretty". Pretty shitty brickwork more like
Load More Replies...Tree vs. Suv: Tree Wins
It really hurts when Mother Nature does this kind of thing. Last year, knowing a windstorm was coming, I had a choice to park outside underneath a number of giant, old trees or in my carport (closed in on one side). I chose the latter. Fast forward to the next morning, laying in bed slowly waking up when my grandson and I hear the loudest of pop/cracks and boom/crash!! I fly out of bed, slam open the front door, and find.... A giant tree fallen ACROSS and easily collapsed the entire carport ON TOP of my 11 month-old, much-loved car. Totaled. Next time I will just park without forethought.
I know, right? I think the tree actually lost before the fight began.
Load More Replies...That looks like storm-damage. Or tree-damage, possibly
Load More Replies...Slipped In The Shower, Landed On The Toilet
Oh dear. That had to hurt. And then the indignity of being naked and hurt to top it off!
I can’t believe the timing of this post!! My friend in Oregon just did this at her place and broke both of her hips.
Oof, that sounds awful :( my best wishes to her, may she have a speedy and complete recovering!
Load More Replies...I did this, but broke the tank with my shoulder, so while the bathroom was flooded, the base of the toilet stayed in place. Concussed, but otherwise just wet. About CA$500 to repair, mostly for the drywall.
... It sounds like you got the worst of the deal... I hope you're all mended now.
Load More Replies...Mclaren Paired With The Unskilled Driver
Most supercars seem to be owned by people who underestimate what happens when they floor it, especially with cold tyres.
Rich does not equal smart. Never has, never will.
Load More Replies...My dad always said everyone can drive fast, it's the handling of the car that most will fail at.
The higher the price of the supercar, the lower the IQ of the driver.
Csx Coal Train Derailment
Whoa, that house had not only a Guardian Angel, but at least a Guardian Seraph
"Roger! What was that noise?" ... "Umm, think the neighbour be wheeling their bins to the kerb."
Can you imagine being in your kitchen or living room and hearing what was happening outside?!?!
Things Got A Little Out Of Hand While Cooking Breakfast Yesterday
It’s amazing how fragile those things are I have seen one lose four lanes of traffic and end up shredded on the shoulder of the road when it got hit on the side with a big gust of wind.
Problem is they're built light for (relatively) small engines and kinda reasonable fuel economy, but then have the aerodynamics of a brick... Just an accident waiting to happen!
Load More Replies...These things tend to use chemical refrigerators which are known for nasty, frequent fires. Many people replace them with small electric refrigerators for safety reasons.
It amazes me how many RV owners don't keep functional fire extinguishers in their units.
What Happens When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf
I'm guessing some power-mad manager demanded this against the reservations of the people who worked there. "People hardly ever buy those, put them up on the top shelf."
Or the pallet was overloaded or not properly stretch-wrapped, or they noticed those problems yet didn't want to take the time to get a john lift and unload it manually from the rack.
Load More Replies...Um, no. The pallet collapsed. You can see the bottom part of it hanging down from the forks. (And the load probably wasn't correctly shrink wrapped to the pallet.) You can tell by the position of the reach truck (no, it's not a fork lift) that the driver had only just raised the load. It's not even pulled all the way out of the racking. It's not operator error. And size has nothing to do with it. The small things you can get to with a ladder are in the intermediate overheads (lower shelves). The things that are big and heavy and require lift equipment to move are always on the top (16 or 20 ft).
Was just getting ready to point all this out. Ah the joys of working THD and Lowe's. Even more fun when you're one of 3 people in the entire store that can use the carpet pole
Load More Replies...Just spread it over the rest of the floor and no one will ever know....
I worked at Lowe’s in the paint Dept and that’s where we kept the 5 gallon buckets too.
Part Of A Boeing 777 Engine Fell Off While Flying And Landed In A Yard
This happened in Denver, CO last year. No one was injured and the plane landed successfully but there were several $100K worth of damage. An engine malfunctioned, damaged the fuselage, and dropped parts across multiple homes and vehicles. The closest call was a couple walking their dog that had ~ 20lb part miss them by 5 feet.
The pieces landed in Broomfield (a north Denver suburb) where I live, and this house is a few blocks from mine. The picture above isn't very helpful to you though. Check out the one I've attached so you can see the 250-pound outer ring of the engine more clearly (also in the original post) that totalled the cab of the truck behind it. And if you're interested, here are two local articles on the event: https://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/2021/02/20/broomfield-police-receive-reports-of-debris-dropped-by-plane-with-engine-trouble/ & https://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/2021/02/24/then-craziness-ensued-broomfield-couple-recounts-plane-debris-falling/ ring-60f49...adc386.jpg
Glad no one was hurt. Hope the plane was able to land, and this didn’t happen because it cracked up in the air, or collided with another plane.
The plane was able to return to Denver International Airport. It was the engine on the right wing. Denver Fire Department was waiting for them and put out the engine fire. No injuries.
Load More Replies...It was part of the engine. I’d say that’s essential.
Load More Replies...Or coming out of your front door and part of that plane lands right in front of you!
Load More Replies...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
but their bank account was
Load More Replies...I love that dude in the parking lot looking like he's casually strolling while scrolling his Facebook feed.
If I found myself that close to...that, I would be on my phone too, trying to look up what's going on
Load More Replies...Thank you for including the information about no deaths or even injuries. I'm worried looking at these pictures!
I was working pretty close to it that day. The guy who set the place ablaze as since been arrested and charged with arson.
Yea. Super valid question. When they say that they mean it's more than one city/firehouse attending the fire. So a 3 alarm fire would mean 3 different cities. In this case it was Murray Fire, Taylorsville Fire and West Valley Fire and fighting it at the same time.
Load More Replies...This could very easily be from insurance fraud. In San Jose when they were building a new upscale mall like this called Santana Row, it also burned down during construction.
well that's a bit dangerous if only three alarms were triggered in the whole fire
I Think They Need A Bigger Boat
The captain did everything right by steering head-on into the wave, it was just too large.
No, it was a roller. Once the wave is curling at the top your best bet is to stay level.
Load More Replies...Roughly 600 Plates Broken
Earthquake! Whoever hast to clean up that mess is going to appreciate that bottle of ibuprofen being right there.
Looks familiar to me too. Reminds me of the galley they have on a Halifax class Frigate
Load More Replies...Someone is gonna be happy theres ibuprofen laying amist in the chaos
1, 2... 1, 2...
Looks like the Lead Guitar decided to go down with the sinking amps.
I suppose all the electrical wiring has long since shorted out. I wouldn't assume it however.
The Underside Of A Sepecat Jaguar
$28 Million Sikorsky Mh-60s
Dye, used when pilots eject over water to make them easier to spot
Load More Replies...Was that tech who was involved with the F 16 getting blown up anywhere near this at the time this went down? Do you know the guy I named Neil?
He was too busy at the trial for the harrier or whatever it was that fell off last.
Load More Replies...Last Friday During A Storm In Oosterwolde, The Netherlands, A Row Of Four High Voltage Lattice Transmission Towers Were Downed By The Heavy Wind. This Is What One Of Them Looks Like Right Now. Estimated Damages Are In The Millions. These Towers Each Weigh 40.000kg
I wonder how many lost/still don't have power. Its not like you can run a extension cord to replace those high voltage towers.
No matter how many 0's you put after the decimal point, it still reads as weighing only 40kg.
Some yeats ago similar thing happened in Hungary - heavy rain, cold, sleet with the same result...
No Passenger Was Harmed In The Making Of This Error
Now this is true and pure talent when you can shove a road sign through your windshield and not have the windshield shatter! A+
It looks like it went right through the driver though!!
Load More Replies...There once was a man driving too quick. And didn't realize the road might be slick. A sign came through the front. And his head took the brunt. So now he'll never make it to Limerick.
Best part is, that's the Irish countryside, where the only things you really CAN hit are the occasional road signs (and low stone walls encompassing sheep fields, I suppose).
It's a major road linking Cork and Limerick.....very few sheep or stone walls there.
Load More Replies...‘Bugger’
I'm sure two men and a small digger could solve this problem. It worked for the Ever Given
Closed On A Condo Two Weeks Ago. Today The Supply Line To The Fire Sprinklers Broke In The Attic...
I hope your insurance broker who wrote the 2 condo policies is competent. Condo insurance is very different from a regular home owner's policy
If it is the US or Canada, the condo association is responsible unless the attic is part of their unit. You own everything "from the paint in" so anything in a ceiling or between units is their problem, including damage to anything in your unit resulting from it. And in most placed you are required to have insurance to close unless you paid in cash.
Load More Replies...You Have Three Words To Save Your Job, What Do You Say?
The Bridge On Interstate I-40 In Memphis, Tn, USA
A friend of mine once fixed their festival pavilion with duct tape and a 3-4 day old baguette as structural rod. If it works there, I guess it'd work for this as well.
Load More Replies...Exactly. The Dems are trying to get something passed but the Republicans are dragging it out since they don't seem care if we're safe.
Load More Replies...All is relative. To the bridge it is a high potential structural failure. To the universe it is a mere crack.
Load More Replies...That Bridge had work on it to Earthquake proof it some time ago. This fills me with confidence regarding its safety, not!. Memphis is in The New Madrid Seismic Zone. Below are some links of interest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/is-seismic-retrofit-to-blame-for-unusual-failure-in-mississippi-river-bridge-14-05-2021/
Mclaren 765lt Yesterday
A Perfect Fit
Like many of us, Optimus Prime gained weight during the pandemic.
A Cattle Truck Drove Into A Wind Turbine Blade, Which Then Push It Into The Pilot Truck, Which Then Caught Fire
At least we know what the original beef was.
Load More Replies...Lifting The Plane With A Crane
That Will Take More Than Duct Tape To Fix
A Fire On A Private Jet Hangar Triggered The Foam Extinguisher System
Found Land! Lake Erie Near Sandusky, Ohio
I can say with 100% certainty cops love stuff like this. It literally makes their day!
I hade a cleaning contract at a U.S. Coastguard facility years ago. The number of stupid people with boats was incredible.
Load More Replies...I know there is no connection and it is not their fault, but I always think of Jerry Sandusky when they mention Sandusky, Ohio, may he rot in hell.
Yikes
Reminds me years ago my husbands brother-in-law worked at a store that sold paint. The paint mixers in those days weren't in an enclosed case. And you guessed it a can came open and paint was flung everywhere. Even years later you could still see the stuff on the ceiling, etc.
Load More Replies...Mclaren Senna Lm Worth Over A Million USD Crashed In Monaco
Seriously! Is this the 4th one? Just because you can afford a McLaren Senna, it does not make you Ayrton Senna behind the wheel!
Load More Replies...This is a McLaren F1. Buying this and flooring it wouldn't make you Bruce McLaren behind the wheel.
Cars should not be worth that much. There is too high of a risk for it to be destroyed.
Train Taking A Bath
No, they just scratch the 2 cars besides them when they are parking between them.
Load More Replies...Tell you what, Look makes a good bike frame. The roof is dented, the rack sheared off and bent, and the window shattered but the bike looks like it needs a new rear tire and its ready to ride.
Looks like Chad will have to replace his zillion-dollar bike with the frame made of "Unobtanium!"
Hey ma, I forget to take the goddamn bicycle off the roof....
Hope It Was A Repro At Least
There are no "reproduction" model T's, there are still plenty of real ones around, and most parts are readily available. It won't be an easy repair, but it can certainly be done.
That thing was crashed when it was new. Road service will get to it when they get to it.
Don't worry, it's just warming up its body. That's what the sail-like structure on its back is for.
Ordered Sushi For Delivery.. I Got Garagehub Instead. They Said "Sorry For The Inconvenience, Here Is A 20% Discount For Your Next Order. Must Be Used Within 30 Days"
Flippidy Do Da
Oof Size : Venti
Oh I’m so curious….was the guy towing the boat backing up??? or the guy in the Porsche not paying attention to stopped traffic?? I’m putting my money on that this is the Porsche drivers fault
The Porsche driver doesn't have anything to do with this, it's a Ferrari and everywhere in the world you're almost always at fault when your rear ending another vehicle.
Load More Replies...Lamborghini Urus Crashed And Abandoned In Andorra
If he could have driven 10 meters in either direction he would have been in either France or Spain...
.... maybe it was the indecision~ Spain, Andorra, France???~ that was the distraction that caused this ?
Load More Replies...Someone Left The Vacuum Tank On...
That's what I wss thinking. Someone did this at a brewery here; 1000hl tank.
Load More Replies...Train And Plane Crash
Excavator At A Construction Site Got A Bit Of Water Damage Last Night
Mclaren 720s Crashes
People with more money than brains. Before buying one of these super/hypercars, go for advanced driving lessons.
Load More Replies...Its the same guy, still hasn't gotten used to the paddle shifter.
Load More Replies...I Think Someone Might Be Fired
This was caused by a failure of the mechanism which keeps the jetway aligned with the aircraft. The auto-leveler moves the jetway up and down because the plane moves as fuel is loaded, passengers disembark, etc.
Ladies and gentlemen there will be a slight delay as our door needs to be put back on.
Things like this wig me out, I’ve watched way too many episodes of Air Crash Investigators
McLaren 765LT Cooked Well Done
If you can afford a McLaren, you can afford insurance, js
Load More Replies...I wanna know who's rich enough to own a McLaren within the vicinity of a Wawa? I know those buildings & parking lots anywhere! LOL Seriously, they have the worst parking lots where everyone drives like a complete d0uche canoe.
Crash In California
That's a typical four-car pile-up, with an extra point for double-decking.
It looks like the van at the back rear-ended the silver Civic, which hit the CR-V. Because of the shape of the Civic, the CR-V got pushed up on its hood when it hit the black Camry.
Load More Replies...First, that's why you shouldn't jack up your suspension on your SUV. Secondly, wow fast was that van going that it could not only push a parked car a full space but also lift a vehicle at least twice its weight.
"Beachfront Property"
What's destroyed here? I see a special curved wall at the bottom of the building, and with this kind of perspective we have no confirmation that the building is directly in contact of the water... Am I wrong?
It was in Tenerife a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScAONFkaQxA
Load More Replies...A Youtuber (Gg Exotics) Badly Crashed His Father's Rare 3.4 Million Dollar 1 Of 1 Pagani Huayra Roadster Onto A Curb (Driver Survived With Minor Injuries)
Worlds Most Expensive Car Crash
I wonder if they were rentals. I know that in Las Vegas it’s very popular for a couple of young highrollers to rent these luxury supercars and take them out for a high speed drive in the desert. *Do they do that in Europe? because clearly those guys are not an American emergency crew?
dang seeing all these car crashes make my faith in humanity drain out
The 2018 Dierdorf (Germany) Ice Fire. A Faulty Rod In A Transformer Case Causes A Fire That Totals An Entire High Speed Train
"Ice Fire" is supposed to be "ICE Fire", ICE meaning "inter-city express", for those wondering.
Thanks, I was wondering, I thought the fire started because of the cold, which wouldn’t have been very useful on a German train!
Load More Replies...Androids/Gynoids and Humans can be friends.
Load More Replies...This Used To Be A $150,000 Mclaren
They clearly don't know how to drive something that powerful.
Load More Replies...I mean seriously! How many spoiled rich kids are there driving McLarens in Monaco these days?
Load More Replies...Looks like somewhere in Germany. ("Feuerwehr") Oh, the lure of the Autobahn...
Very Expensive Indeed
It's heavily strapped-down yet the guy in the yellow jacked seems to be furiously giving it a command "You can't park there!", and the guy in the red is going "You tell him Cletus"
Rare Jaguar Xj220 Crashed
I'm Sure There Is A Story Here...
Babylon, N.Y. (AP) -- A military transport plane with seven men aboard crash-landed on a busy highway Wednesday night, smashing into three cars during a wild skid and fatally injuring a motorist. The twin-engine C123 ran out of gas and swooped down on the four-lane Southern State Parkway on Long Island. Skidding hundreds of feet, it ripped through an underpass and struck three cars before stopping in flames.
How the eff can they just run out of gas without noticing it beforehand? 🤦♀️
Load More Replies...My Neighbor’s Mercedes Amg Gt63s Caught On Fire On New Year’s Eve
Oh no... :-( Hopefulyl it wasn't a maliciously placed firework. Even if I think those d**k-extensions are a waste of money, simply destroying them is just terrible
All Forked Up
i think thats the car my dad has. loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong hood for sure. probably would be easy to fork. the hoods like the length of the actual car part.
This Fallen Tree In Amsterdam
Well designed car. There are smaller trees in this gallery that did something similar and the trunk ends up lower than the driver's seat.
Wow, that tree had NO roots left! You can't just brick them in, they are living organisms! Poor tree... :-(
Really Expensive
Billy thought he knew it all. “I CAN swim” he told Thomas. “Look at me go!” *glub glub* Silly Billy.
My Car After I Got Hit By A Porsche Panamera. He Was Drunk And Was Speeding. Yet The Insurance Blames Me Cause I Was Doing A Manouver To My Driveway. Financially Destroyed
I guess it's the US. The Panamera driver can afford a better one.
Load More Replies...This is why everyone needs a dashboard camera. Too many cases come down to one person's word against another's.
That's why photos are important. Physics of a dent can be proven.
Load More Replies...What does it mean, "doing a maneuver to the driveway?" Like, backing into the driveway and blocking the street for a moment? I'm confused.
I assume that's it. They turned into the driveway and the too-fast porsche couldn't stop.
Load More Replies...You need to keep appealing the decision and moving up the chain. Wish I knew you so I could show you what to do.
The guy lives in Belgium. This happened 280 days ago. He did talk to a lawyer and they said it’s not worth pursuing. “Belgium law states everyone doing a manouver has to yield. no matter what. Meaning even if he was going 240km/h, Im in the wrong.“
Load More Replies...lawyer that s**t up now and put it all over the media. shame this drunk dude
An Alaska Airlines 737 Hit A Bear In Yakutat, Alaska
The footprints keep going so I think he is alright. He walked away with a Boo Boo.... I'll show myself out.
Load More Replies...The caption should say: A bear was hit by an Alaska Airlines 737 in Yakutat, Alaska. Ay-que-dol...6657dd.jpg
That Did Not End Well
Ya know, Jeremy Clarkson was right. Sometimes the driver/passenger of a car might get hurt and sometimes might be tragic, that no one gives a crap about the machine itself. It's not just 2 couches on 4 wheels moved by an engine. It has a Soul, that only people who understand machines can see
Drunken Ukrainian Air Force Officer Smashed His Volkswagen Into A Mig-29 Fighter
Wow. Do they expatriate you after crashing a car into a jet? Or is it a Ukrainian ex-Air Force Officer? ;-)
Load More Replies...At least he kept it in the family. Had he hit a naval ship, I’d be horrified
This Happened A Couple Months Ago Near My Home. Battery In A Brand New X5 Hybrid Shorted Out And Burned Down The Garage. I Talked To The Owner And They Didn't Even Have The Car For A Week
No worries, BMW is insured. They'll get a new garage and a new car.
1,000 Tonnes Of Oil Spilled Into The Pristine Waters Of Mauritius When Ship Struck Coral Reef On July 25th, 2020. Ship Has Split Apart
Turns out BP was using an unapproved fuel source in the engine so it failed when the ship got too close to shallow water. The contents of the ship were a fuel mixture banned in much of the world from sea transport because of the way it reacts to water. This accident is considered the worse environmental incident in the South Indian Ocean.
Bet that fuel source was sh*tfull of sulphur too. Assholes.
Load More Replies...Underwater Digger
Looks like it, doesn't it? I hope they got our alive.
Load More Replies...Welp, Hope They Wanted Cable In The Basement
Take out the apples part, theres the description of the driver!
Load More Replies...At Least The Switch Might Have Survived...
when a kid lost at fortnite. my 2 boys got bored of it! THANK YOU GOD!!! it's done!
At first, I thought I was looking at curtains, and couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Yes, but I bet it wasn't MEANT to break the TV. So... accidentally destroyed? If I see the cars smashed to smithereens on the road, I'm also not quite sure that it just happened without any human input...
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“Touchless”
Happened In Germany Today. Elderly People Really Should Take A Second Driving Test
This cracks me up! 77 photos of non-elderly people wrecking things. One happens to be an elderly person and the next thing you know every elderly person needs to get there second driving test done!! Pfffft
I know, right? Do they suppose elderly people were driving all those mclarens?
Load More Replies...The difference is: young drivers have accidents because they are stupid or drunk. You cannot really prevent that with a test. Older drivers have a ton of experience and most often do not drive fast. Their accidents are due to bad sight or bad reaction time. That's preventable by testing elderly people if they are still able to drive. You would not give a 20 year old a drivers licence if they could barely see the road, would you now?
I was all for that a few years back. Then I realized: if we were to take everyone's license away at a certain age after they failed a reaction-test, we would need a LOT more and better bus-and-train-network. Many people live in villages and can't just walk to a shopping-place or to visit their friends. I'm still not convinced that we should let everyone just keep driving until they die, but maybe offer less dangerous/powerful vehicles to them? 50 km/h max would do fine for most things. Even if they were to mix up the pedals.
Load More Replies...Always Check Your Gear Pins
Wrecked Porsche Gt3rs
I'm noticing intact passenger compartments. Way more important.
Load More Replies...Asl Airlines Hungary Flight 7332 Crash
Be funny as hell if one of the guys stood in front of it holding the nose. With caption man stops plane bare handed
The plane looks like a shark snacking on a long piece of vanilla taffy.
Tractor Broke In Two, After Crash With Car
Guessing the car is outside of the picture. That's a tractor pulling some expensive farming equipment. Some kind of sprayer tank? (I'm not super familiar with farm equipment)
Load More Replies...Ferrari F8 Tributo I Saw Crashed A Couple Days Ago
has anyone else noticed all these supercars have incredible crumble zones? none of the cabins have been affected by these horrid crashes (but when fires is involved that is another story altogether)
Oooooooh That’s Gotta Hurt
Boeing 777 Crash At San Francisco Airport
Asiana flight 214, horrible accident. It was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 777 since the aircraft type entered service in 1995.
Isn't this the crash where a firetruck ran over a girl they didn't see because of the foam ?
Yes. But autopsy showed she was dead before she was run over.
Load More Replies...Plane Crash In Building
Mike Bloomberg's 2020 Campaign
after due consideration and a careful re-reading of the post caption.... i'll allow it.
Mike Bloomberg’s “campaign” was intended to do nothing more than take Bernie Sanders out of the running. It worked like a charm. America now has a status quo president and Bloomberg’s money is safe... Americans are still paying too much for health care and wealth inequality will continue to get worse. Thanks Mike.
Wildfires In Oregon
Don't worry, the healing powers of crystals will make everything better
The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
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...There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
Load More Replies...I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
Load More Replies...Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
The lesson to take away here; if you buy a McLaren, take a course on how to handle it correctly...
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...There's definitely a discrepancy in the torque to skill ratio.
Load More Replies...I agree! It's absolutely tragic and is going to cause decades of ecological damage. Truly heartbreaking.
Load More Replies...Wind Turbine on fire. About $2 million up in smoke.... ATT123111-...0acf72.jpg
Events like this are the reason all languages have profanity. Sometimes you are totally justified in cussing a blue streak!
