Mistakes are just lessons waiting to be learned! Unfortunately, some of those mistakes can be very, very expensive. They hit your wallet with the force of a charging rhino, leaving you clutching your head in agony and letting out incomprehensible bleats about how much money just went down the drain.
That’s where the ‘That Looked Expensive’ subreddit comes in. It’s an internet community that’s dedicated to documenting all the hilarious (not to mention painful) times that people made expensive mistakes. Like wrecking their cars. Or planes. (Or presidential campaigns. Sorry, Mike Bloomberg.)
Bored Panda spoke about the best way for people to deal with mistakes and how important a role emotions play in learning from them with researcher and Assistant Professor of Marketing Noelle Nelson from the University of Oregon. She told us that people vary in how much they tend to justify their mistakes. “Some learn early that it’s important to accept when you’ve done something wrong while others get in a habit of justifying/deflecting/making excuses. Everyone, though, has done this to some degree.” Scroll down for our in-depth interview with Noelle and for our chat with the founder of the ‘That Looked Expensive’ subreddit, Approx-, dear Pandas. Remember to upvote your fave expensive blunders and to let us know in the comments what the most expensive thing that you wrecked was and how you did it.
#1 No Matter How Much You Screw Up, You’ll Never Ever Have To Tell Your Boss: Sir, I Toppled That 290 Million Dollar Noaa-N Prime Satellite Right Onto The Shop Floor.
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#2 When The Fire Suppression Foam Is Accidentally Released
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#3 When You Forget You Parked On Top Of The Self-Hiding Garage
The car at the bottom was flooded. Car at the top was crushed
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#4 Don’t Tailgate A School Bus When Your Car Is Shaped Like A Door Stop
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#5 Florida House Split Via Crane Mishap
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#6 Parking On The Beach
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#7 Your Internet Access Will Be Restored Between January And December 2020
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#8 Expensive Tip…
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#9 Technician ‘Accidentally’ Fires Vulcan Cannon & Obliterates F-16 Sitting On The Runway
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#10 $5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
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#11 Landslide On Highway
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#12 If Insurance Companies Had Nightmares…
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#13 If You’re Having A Bad Day, Just Know That At Least You Didn’t Shatter A 16,000$ Bottle Of Victory In Europe, 1945 Château Mouton Rothschild
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#14 The Slide Opened Inside The Aircraft
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#15 Cement Truck Mishap
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#16 Big Oof
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#17 A $5,000,000 Oops
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#18 Renewable Energy Needs Renewing
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#19 New Boeing 737 Fuselages Wrecked In Train Derailment In Montana (July 2014)
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#20 Don’t Leave Your Malinois With Your Porsche
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#21 F
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#22 The Alcoholic In Me Is In Tears!
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#23 Should’ve Thought That Through…
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#24 This Guy Sunk His Raptor And Jeep Trying To Save His $300,000 Boat That Was Sinking
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#25 Two Carnival Cruise Ships Colliding
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#26 Aston Martin That Was Worth £1.5m.
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#27 Stray Bullet Landed On A Solar Panel I Just Installed.
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#28 It Will Hurt The Wallet
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#29 Someone Forgot To Lower The Dump On The Truck
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#30 See The Problem There Is That The Back Fell Off
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#31 Tug Hit An A300
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#32 Jim Bean Wearhouse Fire That Was Left To Burn Through 45 Thousand Barrels Of Whiskey To Avoid Runoff Into Nearby Water Sources
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#33 Well, Not One But Two
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#34 Flipped The Apc And Crashed A Truck That’s Gotta Be Expensive
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#35 A Rock’n Boat
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#36 70m Yacht Capsized In Greece
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#37 Residential Homes Built In South Dakota Over Undisclosed Abandoned Gypsum Mine… Sinkhole Renders Entire Neighborhood’s Property Values Now Worthless.
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#38 Rag Left In Engine After Repairs Turned To Shreds
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#39 300,000$ Porsche Crashed During Test Drive
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#40 Trailer Full Of New 2020 Shelby Gt500s Tipped Over In Detroit Today.
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#41 Suv Crashes Into Mclaren Dealer
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#42 When You Want Your Insurance Adjuster To Pay More Attention To Your Claim
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#43 Hope Insurance Covers This
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#44 What Happens When A Bandsaw Hits A Nail
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#45 Porsche Panamera Hybrid vs. Tesla Model S
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