Goofs and Screw-ups
Can’t Fix Stupid
Using lights and siren to jump to the front of the fast food drive-thru line is sketchy behaviour as a cop. But when you aren't and an off duty real cop sees you its a felony. Oh and he admitted to the arresting officer that he uses the lights and sirens to beat red lights as well.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 04, 2015 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cops, Your Daily Loser, Goofs and Screw-ups
Superglue Fixes Everything
The story behind the breaking and super gluing of the Tutenkamen mask sounds like something out of a sitcom. Unfortunately it really happened.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 23, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Can’t Possibly Be True, Goofs and Screw-ups
Karlsson-on-the-roof
Karlsson-on-the-Roof from Maripuka85 on Vimeo.
Young boy subject to hallucinations is befriended by drunken fairy godfather. In Russian, but that hardly matters.
The German live-action version is even odder.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 28, 2014 -
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Category: Children, Cartoons, 1950s, 1970s, Fictional Monsters, Alcohol, Goofs and Screw-ups
Coffee Creamer Hitler
Swiss retailer Migros has apologized for placing pictures of Hitler and Mussolini on some of the coffee creamers it sells, calling it an "inexcusable blunder" and promising that "in the future we’ll be sure to sharpen our controls."However, they haven't really explained why they decided to use the Hitler/Mussolini photos in the first place. They simply said that, "We weren’t observant enough to notice the picture of Hitler. But in retrospect, we should have paid more attention.”
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 24, 2014 -
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Category: Goofs and Screw-ups
Frog Protection
It is always embarrassing when a credit card is declined, but one would imagine even more so when you are the leader of the free world. Good thing Michelle had his back. I guess he ordered the frog legs.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 18, 2014 -
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Category: Retailing, Couples, Goofs and Screw-ups
Idiots That Live Among Us
A moron in Pennsylvania shot a gun into his neighbor's house while trying to clear the chamber. He stated in court that firing the gun was the only way he knew to unload it. Some people should not be allowed out on their own!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 27, 2014 -
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Category: Guns, Stupid Criminals, Goofs and Screw-ups
John and Mary Newlywed
In 1925 and 1926, Popular Science featured the antics of "John and Mary Newlywed," a young married couple so stupid they did everything wrong around the house. In the instance above from March 1926, John and Mary--despite having perfected anti-gravity as attested to by the unsupported car--are about to blow themselves up and smother themselves with gas fumes.
I regret the Newlyweds did not have a longer run. They would have been the Gallant-less Goofuses of the hobbyist set.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 11, 2014 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, 1920s, Goofs and Screw-ups
Is Space Travel Covered?
Russia sent 5 geckos, amongst other small creatures, to space in order to study the animals sex habits in zero gravity. The satellite was recently brought back and the geckos were all dead, possibly due to freezing. Ok, first, if you are studying sexual activity why send an odd number of participants. Second, who did not know it is too cold for geckos in space? Yeah, yeah, they knew, but they sure didn't prepare for it sufficiently. Thirdly, were they insured by Geico??
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 01, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Goofs and Screw-ups
Bite The Hand That Eats You
A chef was killed by a bite from the disembodied head of an Indonesian spitting cobra. He had decapitated it 20 minutes earlier in preparation of a local dish. They say not to bite the hand that feeds you, the hand that eats you is another thing apparently.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 24, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Restaurants, Screwups, Goofs and Screw-ups
Runaway
Runaway by Cordell Barker, National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 17, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Cartoons, Goofs and Screw-ups, Trains
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