Monday FAIL
Showing posts with label FAIL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAIL. Show all posts
Making an Impression
I wanted to make an impression at a family reunion and remember the names of all of the new husband's family members.
There was one gent whom I'd asked his name and tried very to remember but failed repeatedly.
Finally he bailed me out and said his name was Dick.
Without a thought I quickly said, "Gosh, how could I forget? You *look* like a 'Dick'!!!"
Canadian Parking Fail
This Canadian parking fail is not photoshopped
A man and woman from Ottawa hopped in a cab near Airport Parkway.
They had no clue that they were about to live through something you’d
see in a GTA 4 crash compilation.
Unfortunately the cause wasn’t a high speed police pursuit, or a
chase involving the KGB. Their taxi driver simply had a seizure.
The 36-year-old man driving the taxi had just picked up two people — a 42-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man — on Sawmill Private near the Airport Parkway and Heron Road minutes before the crash. His passengers reported to paramedics that he went into a seizure when he approached Brookfield Road just metres away, slammed his foot down on the gas pedal, and then accelerated onto Junction Avenue.
Since the driver’s foot was smashed on the gas pedal, they did more
then give someone’s BMW a little fender bender. The taxi smashed through
two trees and slammed the Beamer so hard that it landed on it’s roof.
The cab then landed on top with it’s tires still spinning. Neighbors
actually thought it was a house fire.
My favorite part of this story is how completely badass these Canadians are.
- The woman passenger had cuts on her face but refused to go to the hospital
- The male passenger had gashes on his leg but walked it off
- A bystander who busted out the car window to help them, was bloody but fine
- The owner of the BMW took motherfucking shrapnel to the face when the cab exploded but took it like a boss
The only person who needed a trip to the hospital was the cabby, but that’s probably because he just had a seizure.
Anyone else have this song in their head now?
Whoopsie Daisey
Pre-writing two different articles in advance of a news story with
two possible outcomes is a fairly common practice in journalistic
circles. But publishing the wrong one is not.
The Daily Mail inadvertently pressed the post button on the article that claimed Amanda Knox had lost her appeal — mere moments after the 24-year-old Seattleite had her murder conviction overturned by an Italian jury.
“The Daily Fail” was not alone in their dumb erratum: The Sun
had also published a headline claiming Knox has been found “guilty of
killing Meredith Kercher.” Slightly less embarrassing was The Guardian‘s incorrect live-blog update, which said that “Knox has lost her appeal.”
All three publications have since stripped their sites of the false reports, but, for The Daily Mail and The Sun, damning URLs remain as warnings to others who would pen a priori posts.
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