Category: Mistakes
Magdalenian Girl.
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Look both ways.
Bilingual road sign tells pedestrians to look left in one language and to look right in the other. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Causing grievous hurt.
Indian man mistakenly held in prison for 54 years.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Can’t you see I’m in a hurry?
Impatient bank robber takes off his mask to yell at teller, thus blowing his cover. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 6th, 2006.
Deja vu.
Prisoner escapes after posing as his identical twin brother.
Post date: Monday, November 7th, 2005.
Your bad.
Indian astrologer fails to die after predicting his own death because too many people had ‘prayed for him to live’.
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
Alien zapper.
Object initially mistaken for a bomb was in fact a device that was ‘supposed to set off vibrations that would keep aliens away‘. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
It’s just fog.
Fire destroys historic replica that was initially disregarded by a 911 operator as ‘fog’. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 13th, 2005.
Disappearing act.
Dead woman found in wrecked vehicle one day after the accident. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 11th, 2005.
All talk.
The poorly-designed Norwegian Sound and Braille Library ‘is less suited for the visually impaired’ than most other buildings.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
There’s no such thing as Rudolph.
Danish airforce has compensated Santa Claus for accidentally killing Rudolph.
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Stuck in gear.
Wannabe car-jacker that could only drive an automatic stalls out when stolen vehicle turns out to be a stick shift.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Toby Russel Rhodes.
Dog in New Zealand was successfully registered to vote in elections.
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
First-level wizard.
Woman in Tokyo complains to police after the hitman she hired fails to get the job done. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 15th, 2005.
LEGO.
Legos.com is a redirect page owned by LEGO that correctly informs you that the brand name LEGO is not plural. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Honey, I burnt down the house.
German woman trying to kill spiders with fire accidentally burns down her house instead.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Half the man.
Russian man survives after cutting himself in half with circular saw. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
The easiest arrest ever.
By taking pictures with a cell phone they stole, thieves in Argentina unknowingly published themselves on the stolen phone owner’s personal Web page.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Too late.
Innocent maid criminally convicted and executed in 1945 posthumously pardoned in Georgia.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Airheads.
Be careful not to put diesel fuel in your unleaded engine when trying to steal gas.
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
Not armed or dangerous.
Radio station stunt that had three listeners dress like escaped inmates trying to hitch a ride backfired when dozens of ‘terrified’ motorists called 911.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Damn milkman.
One in 25 men worldwide is not the biological father of a child he believes to be his.
Post date: Thursday, August 11th, 2005.
Poetic lysinse.
Pissed off artist reluctantly corrects her misspellings on murals she created for the Livermore public library in San Francisco. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Don’t quit your day job.
Shot putter who missed world qualifier due to flight mix-up instead enters javelin qualifier and loses big time.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
Honey, I forgot you.
Man forgets, leaves wife at gas station for six hours.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
Partisan politics.
Republicans and Democrats in South Carolina are fighting over beer money.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
Woo hoo! Doh!
Florida Lotto to woman: $250,000 winning ticket was a misprint. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
Didn’t you notice?
Del.icio.us had a minor database issue yesterday and comes clean, quickly. Kudos Joshua.
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
What was she spitting?
Kansas City driver falls out of her car on the freeway, survives. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 1st, 2005.
Didn’t get the memo.
Danish police break up ‘street fight‘ that was being filmed for a movie.
Post date: Friday, July 29th, 2005.
Jesus speaking.
Phone number mistakenly shown in the movie Bruce Almighty actually belongs to Florida woman who receives ‘15 to 20 calls an hour from people asking for God‘. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
Stolen stash.
Be careful what type of merchandise you declare was stolen from you when filing a police report.
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
Art confusing life.
Album cover depicting a barcode being mistakenly scanned for real barcode at record stores. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
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