25 Notable Failures to Compare Your Own Follies To

How do you stack up in the embarrassment department?
25 Notable Failures to Compare Your Own Follies To

Oof, these were rough. For us, anyways. You might think they’re not that bad, compared to the fails you may have failed. Well, we guess if your fails failed, you would’ve actually succeeded. You know what we mean! 

That’s the last time you’ll be reading the word “succeeded” around here, since you’re about to delve into a big vat of failures. Well, we guess the second time we wrote “succeeded” was actually the last time you read the word. 

Ugh! We wrote it again! Hmm, guess our failure here is just priming you for the failures to come.

Melanie McGuire

Incriminating Google searches a how to commit murder In 2007, Melanie McGuire was found guilty of murdering her husband and given a life sentence. Prosecutors used as proof her online searches, including how to purchase guns illegally, how to commit murder, and undetectable poisons. CRACKED

Herbalife

An Herbalife insider once itted on camera that the company was a scam. Lose Weight Now HERBALIFE. Ask Me How! Independent Distributor Investor Bill Ackman claimed Herbalife's nutrition clubs, private settings where Herbalife distributors sell the company's products and recruit new , amount to a pyramid scheme. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Dali Robbery

Incriminating Google searches a salvador dali robbery In 2012, Phivos Istavrioglou got busted for taking a Salvador Dalí drawing from an art gallery on the Upper East Side. It turns out he had looked up info about the robbery online before it was even reported in the news. CRACKED

Anurag Johri

Incriminating Google searches a how to kill someone with a baseball bat without being detected Anurag Johri, born in India and studying in the UK, was sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife in 2005. This case was nicknamed the Google murder, because he had researched how to safely murder someone with a baseball bat. CRACKED

Jacob Cox-Brown

CRACKED NEWSWORTHY IDIOCY. As Oregon police investigated a hit and run, Jacob Cox-Brown (18) posted Drivin drunk... classsic;) but to whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P His friends ed police, and they easily linked him to the crime.

American Airlines

CRACKED AIRLINES AND TERRORISM JOKES DO NOT MIX. A 14 year old Dutch girl tweeted American Airlines, Hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye. They forwarded her IP address to the FBI and she was arrested. Sarah @QueenDemetiax_:2h @AmericanAir hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye Details Reply 27 Retweet Favorite ... More American Airlines Follow @AmericanAir @queendemetriax_ Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your

Whitney Beall

CRACKED A FLORIDA WOMAN BRAGS ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING. While driving, Whitney Beall went live on Periscope and told people how she had been drinking before getting in the car. Many viewers called 911, and police found her (intoxicated and driving with a flat tire). a Naben Din US 19 16940 TO 16120

Dave Portnoy

CRACKED DAVID PORTNOY'S ANTI-UNION RAMPAGE. The Barstool Sports co-founder wrote a series of tweets threatening to fire employees if they attempted to unionize. Не settled with the National Labor Relations Board, because threatening to fire employees for unionizing is illegal. SHART JIM NORTON SAM ROBERTS

Lance Armstrong

LANCE ARMSTRONG PRETENDED TO ACCIDENTLY TWEET OUT HIS OWN PHONE NUMBER, AS A PRANK Lance Armstrong @lancearmstrong Hey - you bet. Happy to help. Call my cell Take care, L 6:33 PM - Sep 13, 2012 Twitter for iPhone 2.3K Retweets 1.2K Likes Lance Armstrong @lancearmstrong Psych! 10:02 PM - Sep 13, 2012 Twitter for iPhone 282 Retweets 122 Likes EXCEPT, INSTEAD OF USING A FAKE NUMBER FOR THIS PRANK, LANCE TWEETED OUT SOMEONE'S REAL NUMBER TO HIS THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS GRAGKED.COM

Total Beauty

During the 2016 Oscars, a Los-Angeles website praised Oprah's tattoo on Twitter... Except it wasn't Oprah. Total Beauty Follow @TotalBeauty We had no idea @Oprah was #tatted, and we love it. #Oscars It was Whoopi Goldberg. Timed during a boycott over the lack of diversity in Hollywood, the tweet sparked outrage. @TotalBeauty apologized and offered to donate $10,000 to the charity of the mistaken celebs' choice. CRACKED.COM

Powergen

CRACKED #powergenitalia Powergen (UK's leading gas and electricity company) chose an unfortunate domain name for their Italian subsidiary. Powergen Italia really could've used some capitalisation. POWERGEN

Qantas

CRACKED #QantasLuxury Aussie airline Qantas asked customers to share their experiences just one day after the airline grounded their fleet and locked out staff over a union dispute. Disgruntled staff and customers used the hashtag to put them on blast. QANTAS ............ Spirit of Australia

McDonald’s

CRACKED #McDStories To improve their image, McDonald's asked people to share McDonald's related stories. Pouncing on the opportunity, the Twittersphere shared thousands of stories involving slaughterhouses, food poisoning, and diabetes. CO. M The Saweetie Meal GY M BBQ Sweetie CREW .

Donald Trump

Donald Trump's Exclusive Introduction worst TRUMP business idea STEAKS THE WORLD'S GREATEST STEAK ever (maybe). Trump Steaks were (for some reason) sold at the Sharper Image. Sharper Image CEO Jerry Levin called it a horrible business idea, saying, We literally sold almost no steaks. If we sold $50,000 worth of steaks in total, I'd be surprised. CRACKED

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg served subs... in a sub! Get it? The highest-grossing director of all time opened two locations of Dive! (a submarine-themed sub sandwich restaurant). The over-priced, mediocre food saw them close within a few years. CRACKED

Hulk Hogan

CRACKED No amount of muscle- shaped noodles could save Hulk Hogan's Pastamania. In 1995, Hogan opened one of what he d as a chain of food court pasta restaurants in Minnesota's Mall of America. Despite amazing menu options like Hulk-A-Roos, its flagship location didn't ANGEL even last a year. TANNIA!

Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav had many failed chicken ts. Не opened Flav's Fried Chicken in lowa in 2011, but it closed in four months due to bounced checks and bad business decisions. Не tried House of Flavor and Flavor Flav's Chicken & Ribs in 2012, and both restaurants were closed by July 2013. 2 CRACKED

Yahoo!

CRACKED Tumblr - Home t of Fandom Mones tumblr. Search OPEN 17 0.4 №75 ..... What's New Verson History 10.0 Made Thanks for choising Tumblr a pixce & connect North others over shared interests Preview YAHOO! In 2013, Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, but the platform struggled to become profitable and was eventually sold to Automattic for $3 million in 2019.

Samsung

CRACKED SAMSUNG Samsung Securities Co CEO Koo Sung-hoon resigned after the company was punished by South Korea's financial regulator for an employee's error that sparked a $105 billion ghost stock blunder. The company was handed a six month partial suspension of its operations and its chief was suspended for three months.

Citibank

CRACKED CITIBANK Citibank made a mistake and accidentally sent $900 million to the wrong people, and the lenders refused to return the money. The lenders were taking advantage of the situation due to a longer running saga between them and Revlon, the company that borrowed the money.

Mercedes

Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market with a brand name that portrayed their cars as effective deathtraps. The luxury car company wasn't paying enough attention to detail when they picked the name Bensi-which translates to Chinese as Rush to die. CRACKED.COM

Ford

Ford took its Pinto model over to Brazil without knowing it announced a trait that many would rather keep hidden. Ford You see, the word Pinto might have sounded just fine to English- speaking buyers, but when translated to Brazilian-Portuguese, it means Small penis. CRACKED.COM

Parker Pen

Parker Pen was trying hard to avoid embarrassing their Mexican clients when they ended up embarrassing themselves. + PARKER EST. 1888 HAND They wrongly converted their slogan, It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you, into Spanish as, It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant. CRACKED.COM

Clairol

Clairol introduced their curling iron to the German market by describing it, literally, as a hot pile of cow dung. 9 LIGHT BLONDE BLOND CLAIR CLAIROL NEW YORK NO AMMONIA, ce ADDED PARABENS HEALTHY LOOKING The product was sold under its English name Mist Stick but the company didn't do enough research to realize that mist in German means manure. CRACKED.COM

Paxan Co.

The soaps produced by Iranian company Paxan Co. ironically carry a name that labels them as packaged filth. New Automatic Color - - I I Boar New - - Bar B - - - Detergent Powe HI / Vergent - по Barf Automatic Barf Powder Automatic - Detergent 5kg Santing colors Ultimate Clea Brigh il 900 g F 1001 a Enghi Station 450g In an effort to translate a Farsi word that should mean Snow into English, the company somehow messed up, resulting in the sale of Barf soap. CRACKED.COM

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