25 Bummers and Blunders to Avoid at All Costs

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Treat these like pine trees on your ski trail down the mountain of life. Apologies for putting them here and giving you something to avoid, but we promise we’re putting them here as “what not to dos.” Maybe it’s best to think of them big orange cones in front of these pine trees you’re trying to avoid. Of course, you also don’t want to hit big orange cones while barreling down a mountain.

We’ve completely lost our point, which has most likely turned this pre-list blurb into a failure of its own, but the goal here is to show you a big ol’ list of fails and bails. If those happen to be directly under this blurb then we’ll consider that a success!

Bankrupting A Casino — Twice

CRACKED TRUMP TAJ MAHAL CASINO Donald Trump's Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City was sold for a tiny fraction of what it cost to build - about 4 cents for every dollar. Trump had gone bankrupt with the property twice, first in 2009 and then again in 2015. AMERICAN E ACADEMY Diamond Sir Stat in HOSPY Award RU Sold for 1/25 of its construction cost

Building A Submarine 100 Tons Too Heavy

FATAL x ERROR HAVING TO EXP AND A WHOLE PORT In 2003, a misplaced decimal point in the design of Spain's new submarine meant that it was 100 tons heavier than expected. The port of Cartagena, where it was being built, had to be expanded and dredged to fit it. This caused a five year delay. CRACKED

Accidentally Creating A Saltwater Lake

FATAL x ERROR LOSING $45 MILLION (ACCIDENTALLY CREATING A SALTWATER LAKE) In 1980, an oil rig team in Louisiana drilled in the wrong place, creating a 200-foot- deep saltwater lake and costing the company $45 million. Why? An engineer mixed up two types of geographical coordinates, leading to a mapping error. CRACKED

Mistyping A Stock Price to the Tune of $225 Million

,275.30 30,463.58 15.448 1,014.12 +7.62) (+15 94) (144g) LES 3.65 60.30 -56.29 -127 B 60.44 151F21 1:11:42.19) (-126.) (-0.21) 55.90) FATAL x ERROR 203.88 85.65 $225 MILLION -107.5 IN STOCK LOST -62.75 our a the (-115 170 Mizuho (7.84) Securities Co. made a -8.74 big mistake in 2005 when they 3133 mistyped a stock trade price, 108 49 18.08) costing them at least $225 50 million. The Tokyo Stock 75.41 Exchange wouldn't let them -427.15 19.36) cancel the order. the 156,015.25 2221771 34 883 23 ,028.94 3 (+3.99) +4.44) 10.15 -287 741.27 26.98 UN 201 CRACKED 959.02

Freeing A Convicted Felon Because of A Clerical Error

FATAL x ERROR A CONVICTED MAN WALKS FREE FOR 13 YEARS Because of a clerical error, a man in Missouri was sent to prison in 2014-13 years after his conviction. A judge released him nine months later, taking into account the time that had passed between his conviction and his arrest. CRACKED

Buying Too Many U.S. Power Transmission Hedging Contracts

3 Insert Page Layout Cut FATAL x ERROR $24 MILLION Copy DOLLARS LOST In May 2020, a Canadian power Formal generator power transmission bought many hedging U.S. too contracts at higher prices than they needed to. The CEO said it was literally a cut-and-paste error in an Excel spreadsheet. В A CRACKED

Crashing A Helicopter While Taking A Selfie

Navy pilots damaged helicopters taking a Facebook photo LAKE ТАНОЕ CRACKED.COM Two pilots caused half a million dollars in damage trying to take a cool photo in 2010.

Gluing A Kid’s Eye Shut

Medical Mishaps A RECEPTIONIST GLUED A KID'S EYE SHUT One woman took her son to a clinic near their home in Blainville, Canada, to have a small scratch on his eyelid sealed with medical glue, but the receptionist with no medical training somehow ended up applying the glue and accidentally glued his eye shut. CRACKED

Sexting During Surgery

Medical Mishaps SEXTING DURING SURGERY One Seattle doctor's license was suspended after he sent inappropriate messages during surgery, and selfies with his genitals exposed while wearing his hospital uniform. Really, there's a time and place for everything, and it's not during surgery. CRACKED

Fumbling the Heart Needed for A Heart Transplant

Medical Mishaps FUMBLED HEART TRANSPLANT A hospital in California was able to do a successful heart transplant after the helicopter carrying it crashed on landing. Firefighters were able to get the organ, but then a medical worker stumbled and dropped it. Fortunately, it was quickly picked up and rushed inside. CRACKED

Causing An Explosion Via Fart

Medical Mishaps PERILOUS FARTING A woman's fart set a Tokyo hospital on fire during surgery in 2016, burning the patient and spreading to the curtain. The laser they used during the surgery ignited the patient's intestinal gas. CRACKED

Losing Control of A Construction Crane

25 Bummers and Blunders to Avoid at All Costs

Performing An Unwanted Vasectomy

Medical Mishaps OVERLY ENTHUSIASTIC SURGEONS A man at the Royal Liverpool Hospital got a vasectomy instead of a minor urological procedure. The hospital apologized, and is investigating. Medics tried to reverse it, but it's unclear if it worked. CRACKED

Trying to Squeeze A 12-Foot Bus Under A 10-Foot Bridge

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Knocking Over A Whole Warehouse of Goods With A Forklift

25 Bummers and Blunders to Avoid at All Costs

Sending An Erroneous $10.5 Million Refund

+0 FATAL x ERROR $10.5 MILLION LOST In 2021, Crypto.com accidentally sent a woman $10.5 million instead of the $100 refund she asked for. Why? An employee made a mistake and put an account number in the payment field. 63,52 cryptos 1504,72 CRACKED

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Not Having Enough Gas When Piloting A Passenger Jet

AIR FATAL x ERROR 803 PASSENGER JET RAN OUT OF GAS MID-AIR In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of gas because of a mistake when converting measurements, and had to make an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. Luckily, they managed to pull it off. CRACKED

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The Museum of Failure

There is a museum just for failed inventions. CRACKED.COM The touring Museum of Failure features an interna- tional collection of more than 100 innovation fail- ures, such as Harley-David- son perfume, Colgate beef lasagna, and Google Glass.

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Miscalculating NASA Orbiter Prices

In 1999, a calculation error led to the loss of a $125 million NASA orbiter. NASA It happened because Lockheed Martin used imperial measurements, and NASA used metric. CRACKED.COM

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Screwing Up the Exchange Rate While Doing A Money Transfer

WEIRD WORLD In South Africa, a local government lost $400,000 because of a transfer error. Afrika-Dzongo Banginkulu yo RESERVE BANK VE BANK They sent 20 million USD, not 20 million South African Rand, to Microsoft Ireland. They reversed the transfer, but still lost $400,000 on the exchange rate. CRACKED.COM

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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

Not Activating the Emergency Brake Before Being Towed

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Parking on a Frozen Lake

US & Canada US Election 2016 Ridiculous idea that was destined to fail horribly, fails horribly 1 hour ago A frozen lake being used as a car park at t

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