40 Expensive Fails That Are Painful And Hilarious To Look At
Watching a $200,000 supercar get washed away by a flood provides a specific kind of spiritual healing that a decade of therapy simply cannot touch. Of course, that high-brow schadenfreude hits a little differently when the “expensive fail” is just a regular person getting a blizzard inside their house.
Whether it’s a billionaire’s hubris or a suburban dad’s worst Tuesday ever, there is a universal, gut-wrenching poetry in watching a four-figure investment get reduced to a pile of insurance paperwork in three seconds flat.
It’s the ultimate high-brow tragedy turned low-brow comedy—a reminder that no amount of generational wealth can outrun fails in life.
1. “Oopsies”
2. “Pro-Tip: When Transporting Paint Makes Sure It Is Properly Secured. Especially If You Are Driving In A $90,000 Maserati”
3. “And This Is Why You Call Your Utility Notification Center!”
4. “When You Live In Svalbard, Norway And Forget To Close The Window In The Office”
5. “Bus Crashed Through A Glass At The Train Station In Hamburg”
6. “In 2003, A Technician Forgot To Log That He Had Removed 24 Bolts During The Maintenance Of The Noaa-19 Satellite, Causing The Satellite To Fall Over And Costing $135,000,000 In Damages”
7. “Giant Beehive Takes Over Roof. That’s A Lot Of Honey”
8. “A 3 Story Mall That Was Still Under Construction Started Making Some Noises From The Metal Structures.. Everyone Was Evacuated And 5 Minutes Later The Collapse Occurred”
9. “Discovered That My Porcelain Countertop Was Actually Tempered Glass”
10. “Dump Truck 70 mph+ Hits Interstate Bridge”
11. “I Found This Gym Floor In Texas While Scouring Google Earth For A Picture Game Round. Part Of Houston Flooding Maybe?”
12. “I Think We Need Some Aircraft Tape”
13. “Ouch!!”
14. “A Mclaren Underwater Due To Hurricane Ian In Miami”
15. “Motor Yacht Fire In Torquay, UK 28/5/22 Motor Yacht Fire In Torquay, UK 28/5/22”
16. “A BMW Wrecked By A Tree”
17. “I Like My Yachts Extra Crispy!”
18. “Bear Attack In NC State Park”
19. “Expensive Mistake”
20. “Jetbridge Collides With A Plane”
21. “Road In Hatay/Turkey After Earthquake”
22. “The Museum Ship Uss Sullivans Has Partially Sunk At The Military Park Pier On Buffalo’s (NY, USA) Waterfront”
23. “And I Thought The Car Parking Was Expensive”
24. “Back In ‘07, Some Guys Ran The Engines On A Brand-New (Not Even Delivered) Airbus A340 At Full Power Without Wheel Chocks. The Brakes Didn’t Hold It. More Than $100 Million, Written Off. One Of The Engines Kept Running For 9 Hours Afterwards, Until The Fuel Ran Out”
25. “Seen In The Mojave Desert This Afternoon”
26. “Over The PA ‘Cleanup On Aisle 4′”
27. “Crashed F-35c Fell Off Uss Carl Vinson Flight Deck Into South China Sea.”
28. “Meanwhile In Livingston Parish, Someone Didn’t Check Bridge Clearances Before Taking The Helicopter Out For The Weekend”
29. “Saw On Facebook – 192nd St Overpass Hwy 1 – Over-Height Load”
30. “Clutch Change On A Ferrari F50 [586 X 535]”
31. “I Hope He Has Good And Full Insurance, On Everything”
32. “Local Dispensary Became A Drive Thru”
33. “Looks Like A Nose Gear Collapse At Las Today”
34. “Signs Point To This Being Expensive”
35. “Pretty Self Explanatory”
36. “Thank You For Flying Northwest Airlink”
37. “Road Collapse In Hakata, Japan On 8 November, 2016. The Gigantic Hole In Downtown Fukuoka, Southern Japan, Cutting Off Power, Water And Gas Supplies To Parts Of The City”
38. “Grimace Paid A Visit”
39. “Money Down The Drain”
40. “2020 California Wildfires Did $2.059 Billion In Damages,10,488 Buildings Were Lost, 33 Deaths,4,359,517 Acres Destroyed”
