30 disasters and failures that definitely cost a pretty penny (31 photos)

If you think that accidentally spilling coffee on your work laptop or breaking a chair in the office is a disaster, then this selection from the “Looks Expensive” subreddit will definitely console you. This community contains mistakes, disasters and failures, the perpetrators of which paid heavily for them - literally. We are talking about flooded mining farms, expensive paintings damaged by museum guards, and many other ruined things that cost someone a pretty penny.





1. When the server dropped



2. If you decide to screw up, do it in such a way that people will then ask how you did it.





3. Division of property



4. Costa Concordia, the largest shipwreck in history



5. Pipes burst under the basketball court.



6. A security guard at an exhibition in Yekaterinburg got bored on the first day of work and painted eyes on the faceless figures in a painting for $900 thousand



7. Rapper Lil Uzi Vert jumped into the crowd at a festival, and fans snatched a $24 million diamond from him, which the artist implanted into his forehead



8. The driver's heart broke too



9. When you entered the wrong cheat in the game



10. If these were network cables, gamers will eat these guys alive



11. Belgium, 1990



12. Scaffolding crashed into the Elizabeth Tower just days after an £80 million renovation was completed.



13. Guilty, boss



14. Guilty, boss: part two



15. You can't park here



16. A delivery robot tries to drive through wet cement.



17. The windmill fell



18. How NOT to handle a multimillion-dollar satellite



19. A Tesla truck overturned on someone's street



20. Brazilian ship in Ecuador



21. Photo of a flooded Bitcoin mining farm



22. Accident at the Macau Grand Prix



23. “There was a small fire in my apartment building last night.”



24. “Train crash in Saltsjöbaden (Sweden) in 2013. A cleaner accidentally started a carelessly parked train, which ended up derailing and crashing into a house.”



25. Uh...



26. Tree vs Tesla



27. Container ship Rena aground off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, October 2011



28. Amazing place, Florida



29. I think this is something from "Speed"



30. “Get the excavators out of the pit, perhaps? No, what could go wrong...”