28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

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28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement
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With fails, flops and face-plants, the letter F sure gets some solid usage in the flounder game. It gives us fault, foiled, fizzle, and fall, too! Fall flat, even. 

So thank you, F. Thank you for helping us describe this collection of fiascos! 

Ooh, there’s another one! F just won’t quit.

The British Air Force

The British Air Force sank an ocean liner by mistake one day before the end of WWII. CRACKED.COM Just a day before the German government surrendered in 1945, the British Royal Air Force mistakenly believed the SS Cap Arcona, carrying 7,000 women, children and Holocaust survivors, was a warship and sank it.

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Citibank

Citibank accidentally sent $500 million and can't get it back. Citibank was supposed to send $8 million to lenders to the cosmetics company Revlon (Citibank was its loan agents), but sent around $900 million by mistake. It got about $400 million back and sued for the resto. but based on

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The Person Behind This Deadly Clerical Error

CRACKED COM A clerical error killed six fishermen The fishing vessel Lady Mary had a mistake in its registration number. A government contractor accid

The Team Behind ‘Catch a Contractor’

After a dismal bathroom renovation, Rochelle Kirk and Scott Waters signed up for Catch a Contractor, a reality show with the goal of repairing mistake

Magellan

You've probably heard of Magellan. You might not have heard that his crew had to drink urine to survive. Magellan's mistake was underestimating the si

The Robber Who Got Stuck in A Chimney

A robber got stuck in the chimney. Keith Schultz and his girlfriend tripped the home security alarm when he got stuck in the chimney and she broke into the house to help him. Firefighters had to free him, and his mugshot looks like Zoolander getting the black lung, Pop. CRACKED

The Guys Photographing This Ship Launch

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

This Job Interviewee

... TELL US NOW. Jennings M. tells us, I was interviewing someone for a job at my old hotel, when she got a phone call. She answered it without hesitation and said 'Hey girl! No I'm not busy.' I always did interviews in the lobby, so I just up and walked back to my office. She called two weeks later asking if she got the job. CRACKED.COM

This Discount Liquor Store

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

Audi

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

Amazon

Amazon needed a way to promote its new series. They went with Nazi symbols on the subway. The series was called The Man In The High Castle and worked on the premise that America had lost WWII. So Amazon just thought they'd decorate New York subway seats with the symbols of Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Amazon pulled the signage after Mayor Bill de Blasio called it irresponsible and offensive. CRACKED.COM http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/amazon-pulls-nazi-tv-ad- campaign-new-york-the-man-in-the-high-castle-irresponsible-and-offensive-6747901.html

The American Dairy Association

The American Dairy Association's Got milk? campaign was such a hit that they decided to go international with it. YOUR MILK COMES FROM A GOOD PLACE AMERICAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION NORTH EAST The Spanish version was quickly discontinued, though, when they realized they'd been asking their audience the intrusive question, Are you lactating? CRACKED.COM

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This Guy’s Cab Driver

SAIT I finished a visit to Calgary, CRESCENT and hailed a taxi to go to the airport. Bluff Park TAXI Riley ONLY Park Ave NE ICA URST e Memnaral Imoria

The Nurse Helping Deliver This Woman’s Child

CRACKED COM When I went into labor with my third child, the maternity ward in our hospital was being renovated. They kept moving me from room to room.

A Horse in ‘The Last Samurai’

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

Judy Garland

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

The Air Canister in ‘Gladiator’

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

This Mechanic

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

This Rigging Supervisor

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

This Ship Captain

28 Times Someone Came Up Short, Much to Our Amusement

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