26 Goofs and Blunders There’s No Coming Back From

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26 Goofs and Blunders There’s No Coming Back From

Oof, that was rough… is what youll be saying after each one of these highly embarrassing gaffes. We feel a little bad for playing a game of telephone with stories that these people would clearly like to be forgotten, but theyre just too juicy. 

So let their pain be a lesson to the rest of you. Screwups like these could land you on lists like the one below for years to come.

Tesla

CRACKED Tesla's self-driving cars plow through child-shaped objects. The Dawn Project ran multiple tests where a car in full self-driving mode mowed right over some child dummies. Tesla has since sent multiple cease-and-desist letters, while Tesla fanboys have called for using actual children to prove that the feature works. YOUR - - - - нимий

Constantinople

Constantinople was defeated because of an unlocked gate. In the Middle Ages, the city of Constantinople was the citadel to the Eastern Roman Empire. It survived 1,000 years' worth of sieges. In 1453, Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire attacked. A couple of months into the siege, somebody forgot to lock Constantinople's Kerkoporta gate. That was all Mehmed's army needed to pillage the city and enslave its people. CRACKED.COM Georgios Phrantzés, Marios Philippides, 1908 The fall of the Byzantine Empire: a Chronicle.

Cybertrucks

CRACKED Cybertruck's unbreakable windows. After boasting about the Cybertruck's unbreakable armored glass windows, Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen smashed one. Then two. Elon Musk initially suggested shooting the truck, but that (like the faulty window) was scrapped.

NASA

A missing line cost NASA $80 million. It was 1962, and NASA launched America's first inter-planetary probe Mariner 1. Its destination was Venus. But a single typo in a computer equation caused the spacecraft to veer off course. Specifically, it was an overbar - a line that goes above a letter or number. NASA had to detonate Mariner 1 five minutes after liftoff. R. Arthur С. Clarke called n the mission wrecked by the most expensive hyphen in history. CRACKED.COM http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/B.75.htm/#subj1

Facebook

CRACKED Facebook's 24/7 spy machine. After a 50 million user data breach, Facebook released Portal, a video-calling device with a camera and mic that were always on. Labeled the worst tech device of the year, people distrusted Facebook's camera/microphone combo in their home, and it flopped.

Amazon

CRACKED Amazon's life-threatening home security. Homeowners can check in on their homes from anywhere, and with Amazon Ring, so can everyone else! Hackers have spied on people, spoken racial slurs through the mic, and even told an old lady Tonight you die. Dozens of terrified users sued Amazon.

Quibi

CRACKED Quibi failed... because of Covid? They spent 1.8 billion dollars to create big budget, ten-minute episodes with Hollywood stars. After it flopped, founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus. Sure Jeff, no one consumed video during the pandemic.

The Mars Climate Orbiter

We lost the Mars Climate Orbiter because the engineers worked in inches. 11 1F 7 8 9 3 0 1 The Lockheed Martin team that built the jet thrusters in 1999 worked in the imperial system, rather than the metric system, and didn't tell NASA. The Orbiter went so wackily off-course that NASA just gave up. It's listed as assumed lost. CRACKED.COM http://www visionlearing.com/blog/2012/09/21/ tragedies-in-science-the-crash-of-the-mars-climate-orbiter/

The Soviet N1 Moon Rocket

A loose bolt caused the destruction of the Soviet N1 moon rocket. It was 1969, and the Soviets were aiming for the moon with their N1 rocket. A single loose bolt got sucked into a fuel pump, and caused the rocket to explode 20 seconds into its flight. The resulting fireball was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/AyoBHBOnscY

D-Day

The Germans' loss at Normandy may have been because of a birthday party. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel US was in charge of defending Europe from Allied invasion, in 1944. Rommel took the weekend of June 6 off to celebrate his wife's birthday. It was that day that the Allies landed at Normandy, leading to the largest German defeat of World War II. You might know it better as D-Day. http://www.historynet.com/ield-marshall-erwin- CRACKED.COM rommels-defense-of-normandy-during-world-war-ii.htm

Google

CRACKED Google's steampunk-ass internet balloons. Going literally above and beyond cell towers, Alphabet (Google's parent company) tried to give affordable internet to planet Earth with internet-emitting balloons. Many countries denied them for airspace security reasons. They lost $1 billion and popped them all.

Pacemakers

CRACKED Hackable pacemakers that tug on your heartstrings. This revolutionary radio-controlled pacemaker was built without security against other frequencies. The possibility of hacking caused a recall of 500,000 after patients feared anyone with a wireless transmitter kit could play with their hearts.

The Titanic

A missing key led to the sinking of the Titanic. Right before the Titanic sailed, the company that ran the cruise decided to replace the ship's second officer, David Blair, with the more experienced Charles Lightoller. But Blair neglected to give Lightoller the key to the locker that contained the binoculars. Lookout Fred Fleet claims he would have spotted the iceberg sooner, if he'd had binoculars. Priscilla Cale, David C Tate, 2011 Sink Or Swim: CRACKED.COM How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business

Equifax

CRACKED Cybersecurity for identity thieves. This consumer reporting agency left 147 million Americans' SSN's, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers exposed. Over 209,000 peoples' credit cards were accessed, and Equifax is currently paying $425 million to victims. EQUIFAX

Phone Service

12 million people lost their phone service because of a 6. In 1991, customers in Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Los Angeles lost phone service. Apparently a Bell employee had typed a 6 instead of a d in the software that controls signals regulating telephone traffic, causing the phone companies to lose all control of their networks. http://articles. baltimoresun. com/1991-11-24/news/ CRACKED.COM 1991328005_1_typographical-error-crucial-error-signal-transfer

The Delaware

The Hessians lost at Trenton because they didn't read a warning note. just wike She leaving car and ml and he would sight of express to It was the American Revolution, and Washington famously crossed the Delaware in winter to defeat the Hessian soldiers who held the town of Trenton. As it happens, a loyalist farmer spotted the move and sent a warning note to Hessian commander Johann Gottlieb Rall. Rall never read it. It was found unopened in his pocket after he died in the battle. CRACKED.COM Bill Fawcett, 2010. 100 Mistakes that Changed History.

Printing

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Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme (accidentally) supports the Klan COLOURING LUESDAY 18th February. 12:00pm - 5.00pm KKK WEDNESDAY CRACKED.COM In 2015, a Krispy Kreme location in the UK planned a week of fun family events, including a Wednesday dedicated to the unfortunately named Krispy Kreme Klub.

Bad Dates

Zwirnor 1y ago I had a date with a guy and it went well, so I decided to go for a second date. In the same breath, halfway through the dinner, he declared that I reminded him of his dead mother, that he loved me and he was certain he would marry me. Spoiler alert, he did not, in fact marry me. There was no third date. 37 Reply ...

Birthday Surprise

KPexEAw . 10y My 19th birthday surprise party (30 years ago), I had to go the bathroom as soon as I got in the door, they hid all the shoes in there. ... 3

Surprise Party Gone Wrong

Captainhowarth . 1 10y My friend got back from deployment, it was my job to take him out and keep him away whilst they prepare his house. When we arrive everyone jumps out, friend reacts automatically punching someone in the face and throwing himself out of the door at the same time. Two chipped teeth and a sprained wrist. ... 208

Coors

Coors accidentally marketed beer to their Spanish-speaking customers with the promise that they'd run to the toilet. THE ORIGINA LONGNECKS 12 Coog! FL.OZ. و GOLDEN I BOCKY The brewing company translated .... save - - . - canada - - Bampoor - منجمة NATURAL NTAIN - their English catchphrase, Turn it WATER loose, without realizing that it means Suffer from diarrhea in Spanish. CRACKED.COM

Braniff International

In 1987, Braniff international released an ad that was easily confused for an open invitation into the mile-high club. BI THE BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL BRANIFF 00000000000 The airline company was trying to entice travelers with its leather seats when a mixup of Spanish homophones turned its Fly in leather tag line into Fly naked. CRACKED.COM

Schweppes

Schweppes sold their Tonic Water in Italy without realizing that no self-respecting person would dare to drink it. INDIAN 1 Schweppes TONIC WATER The problem wasn't with the drink itself, but with the name Schweppes Tonic Water, which translated to Italian as Schweppes Toilet Water. CRACKED.COM

Pepsi

While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE PEPSI MARK The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM

Dairy

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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