This week, a Reddit thread by user amco3008 asked people to share the biggest fuck up they've EVER witnessed. And so, obviously, MANY people began chiming in with juicy stories.
Here are some of the biggest "OH SHIT" and gasp-worthy moments that people witnessed:
1. This unhappy accident:
2. This newbie driver mishap:
"I was driving with my boyfriend when the car in front of us started to swerve back and forth. We see the driver clearly taking selfies — then the car plows into a mailbox. Not a cheap mailbox, but a solidly planted thick, wooden one. We pulled over and jumped out to make sure the person was OK. They were probably going about 45 mph. We come up to the door and see it's a teenage guy who's taking in his bent hood and smashed windshield. We do the standard 'Are you OK? Do we need to call someone?' only for him to reply, 'No, my parents should be close behind, and they're going to kill me.' Apparently, they had just bought him his first car, and they were on their way home from the dealer."
3. This literal elephant in the room:
4. This sewer nightmare:
"A few years ago, we started having problems with the drain in our house. The problem persisted and gradually grew worse. We had the city come check the sewer line, but they said it was clear. It finally got so bad that the shower would back up in just five minutes while the toilet gurgled. Sewage started to seep from the clean out in our yard and into the street. We called the city again. They checked the lines and told me it was all clear, then said I should call a plumber. I told him, 'No way, man. Crap’s coming from the clean out on the side of the house. The problem’s gotta be on your end somewhere.' I led him to the clean out with nastiness seeping from beneath the cover, and that's when he got a really funny look on his face. 'Hold on,' he told me, and went and made some calls. He came back, sheepish, and told me that every house on this block connects to a sewer line back in the alley, but ours connects to a line on the side. Basically, they forgot to connect ours to the new line, which meant they had to dig through months worth of literal shit to fix it."
5. This accidental email:
6. This bit of bad luck:
"My father backed into a wall at the luxury car dealership during a test drive. We all just sat in silence for a moment before he asked the salesman if they had a bodyshop."
7. This big whoopsie:
8. This awful mistake:
"I work in a medical clinic. The mail delivery company that shipped frozen human eggs decided to ignore the 'remain refrigerated' notice on the container because their country (Canada/America) had a long weekend, but we did not. As a result, the container sat in the back of the delivery truck for three days. It was thousands and thousands of dollars, never mind the waste of energy involved from the donors' perspective."
9. This car wash nightmare:
10. This parking disaster:
"I was in London, and my friend's dad — who was a loud, alpha type — had a Porsche 911. He parked it on a ramp leading directly onto the Thames River. This was on a weekend in August in a busy area. As in, thousands of people were drinking and enjoying the view. He lost track of time. The river level raised, and his car floated off and sank in front of everyone."
11. This driver's test literal fail:
12. This sanitation catastrophe:
"A team from our company went on a tour of a client's site: a very large and well-known cookie manufacturer in the United States. At the end of the tour, one of the sales guys was looking at the conveyor belt full of fresh cookies. He reached out, grabbed one, and ate it — noting how delicious it was. The client gave him this incredulous look and asked if he really just grabbed a cookie from the belt. The sales guy grinned and nodded. The client then walked over to the big red button on the wall and pressed it. The entire process shut down. Grabbing a cookie off the line without the proper gear contaminated the whole batch. Tens of thousands of cookies were thrown out, and the entire process shut down while the conveyor system was sanitized. We were not welcome back there for several years."
13. The hole this student dug himself:
14. This student's ballsy move:
"If you know anything about high schools in 2018, a lot of people vape. My school bathrooms have a vape alarm that pretty much never works, and this one genius was telling us all about how the alarms don't function. To prove it, he stood on a sink and blew a fat cloud into one of the alarms. That thing went bananas, and the faculty came storming in. He was suspended for two weeks."
15. This sleepy story:
16. This expensive mishap:
"I used to work in a metal refinery. We processed gold and silver using solvent. A supervisor loaded the wrong solvents into both systems. It wrecked both batches and caused maybe 2 million pounds of damage. He is now called goldfinger."
17. This giant flooding mistake:
18. This terrible miscommunication:
"A friend of mine clears houses for a living. He had a call from a solicitor to clear an old lady’s place who had sadly passed. The day comes. He removes everything, from clothes to family heirlooms to furniture to the bed. Everything. He cleans the property and leaves. A week later, he receives a phone call asking if the said property had been done. Turns out, the solicitors had made a mistake, and this poor old lady was returning home from the hospital to nothing."
19. And finally, this nightmare poo mishap:
You can read the full Reddit thread here, if you dare!
Some responses have been edited for length and clarity.