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Oops! The Silly Mistakes Thread

maximus otter said:

UK accidentally sent military emails meant for USA to Russian ally​


British authorities have launched an investigation after officials mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to the government in Mali, a Russian ally.

Officials from the U.K. Ministry of Defence were supposed to be sending emails to the Pentagon, but accidentally sent them to Mali’s government instead, the Times reported Thursday. The mistake was the result of a typo, as the Pentagon’s domain name is “.mil,” while Mali’s is “.ml.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-us-investigation-emails-russian-ally/

maximus otter
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Stormkhan said:
And this, ladles and germs, is why we double-check spelling, gammar etc. andf not rely oh spill chucks!
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When I was a child, I became very particular about spelling and punctuation after I'd read that someone had been executed as a result of incorrect punctuation in an execution warrant.
 
Circle K apologises after diesel put into petrol pumps at Kill garage

Via RTE News

Almost 90 motorists inadvertently filled their petrol vehicles with diesel after a Circle K garage put the wrong fuel into its petrol pumps at the weekend.

In a statement, Circle K apologised to those affected after the incident on Saturday at its Kill North Service Station on the northbound lane of the N7.

The petrol pumps that were mistakenly filled with diesel, operated for five hours and Circle K said it believes that up to 87 drivers were impacted.

Circle K said that between 2pm and 7pm on Saturday all the petrol pumps at the Kill North Service Station were "impacted by an isolated incident where diesel was inadvertently delivered into a petrol underground storage tank.

"Having reviewed CCTV and sales data, we know up to 87 customers may have been impacted by this issue," it said.

"As soon as the issue became apparent, petrol pumps at the forecourt were immediately closed and Circle K launched an investigation to establish how this occurred," it added.
 
Ascalon said:
Circle K apologises after diesel put into petrol pumps at Kill garage

Via RTE News

Almost 90 motorists inadvertently filled their petrol vehicles with diesel after a Circle K garage put the wrong fuel into its petrol pumps at the weekend.

In a statement, Circle K apologised to those affected after the incident on Saturday at its Kill North Service Station on the northbound lane of the N7.

The petrol pumps that were mistakenly filled with diesel, operated for five hours and Circle K said it believes that up to 87 drivers were impacted.

Circle K said that between 2pm and 7pm on Saturday all the petrol pumps at the Kill North Service Station were "impacted by an isolated incident where diesel was inadvertently delivered into a petrol underground storage tank.

"Having reviewed CCTV and sales data, we know up to 87 customers may have been impacted by this issue," it said.

"As soon as the issue became apparent, petrol pumps at the forecourt were immediately closed and Circle K launched an investigation to establish how this occurred," it added.
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Kill garage?
Apt name.
 
Ascalon said:
Circle K apologises after diesel put into petrol pumps at Kill garage


"Having reviewed CCTV and sales data, we know up to 87 customers may have been impacted by this issue," it said.

"As soon as the issue became apparent, petrol pumps at the forecourt were immediately closed and Circle K launched an investigation to establish how this occurred," it added.
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Impacted? IMPACTED? Try 'ruined their engine and rendered their car undrivable'! And they 'apologised'? How are they getting on with replacing the vehicles of the 'up to 87' customers who now can't move?
 
Actually, advice from the RAC is such:

Putting diesel in a petrol car is less serious than putting petrol in a diesel car. After starting your engine, the diesel will coat spark plugs and the fuel system, which often leads to misfiring. Your engine may give off smoke, cut out, or fail to start at all. You should drain the fuel system as soon as possible.
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/wrong-fuel-recovery/
 

Range Rover driver’s attempt to get round bin lorry doesn’t end well​


Someone in a grey Range Rover decided to attempt to go around the Biffa vehicle in Cranleigh, Surrey, by going off-road on a grass verge.
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It goes pear shaped and the car ends up sliding into a ditch and getting stuck.

video at link.

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It's funny that people in Range Rovers think they can go anywhere.
Well, they can go (almost) anywhere, but not on 'road' tyres.
 
You might have a vehicle that could perform well off-road, but you need the driving skills to go off-road safely.
Middle-class mummy using a step-ladder to get behind the wheel of their 4x4 to go on the school run, probably wouldn't get over a single ditch.
 
Stormkhan said:
Middle-class mummy
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Or 'middle-class daddy' for that matter.

We (my son and I) were on our way back from WGC one day a few weeks ago and took a detour down the 'back roads' just for a change.
A chap in a regular (new) BMW saloon pulled out of the exit from a garden centre in front of us, but due to some roadworks he had to swing the car round in a large arc to clear the cones, putting his front wheels onto the grass on the opposite side of the road.
He discovered that the ground clearance of his car was not quite enough to cope with the way the ground level sloped away there, possibly towards a ditch, grounding his car just behind the front wheels.
He sheepishly got out of his car (sporting a 'man bun' and a well trimmed beard, wearing plimsolls and no socks, and ...ugh....'chinos'....) and looking at me, performed the international hand signals for "Can you give me a push, mate?"
My son and I laughed and drove past him. There was no way any sort of push was going to help there.
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Man 'wins' 100.000 in casino but only gets dinner voucher

A man from Goirle thought he had won a tonne (100.000) at a casino in Breda last month. After he spent 15 minutes on a pink cloud, it turned out that it was a human error. The man is disappointed that he only received a dinner voucher as compensation for the mistake, he told Omroep Brabant.

The man was playing on a vending machine when his cabinet went haywire. "I did not immediately know what was going on," he tells the broadcaster. Staff immediately approached the man and his wife. "They said we had won a tonne. My wife almost fell off her chair from shock."

After congratulations by other guests and staff members, a manager said he was going to make an additional check. "When he came back, he said there was a mistake and I had not won. And that was it." According to the man, the casino staff were very upset about the situation.

To make up for it, the couple was offered a dinner cheque. "That cost Holland Casino a few tens while they just made a mistake with a tonne," he said. He does not feel he is still entitled to 100,000 euros. "Only I think a dinner voucher is ridiculous for such a big mistake. It really is a huge bummer."

https://nos.nl/artikel/2485328-man-wint-ton-in-casino-maar-krijgt-alleen-een-dinerbon
 
Trevp666 said:
Or 'middle-class daddy' for that matter.

We (my son and I) were on our way back from WGC one day a few weeks ago and took a detour down the 'back roads' just for a change.
A chap in a regular (new) BMW saloon pulled out of the exit from a garden centre in front of us, but due to some roadworks he had to swing the car round in a large arc to clear the cones, putting his front wheels onto the grass on the opposite side of the road.
He discovered that the ground clearance of his car was not quite enough to cope with the way the ground level sloped away there, possibly towards a ditch, grounding his car just behind the front wheels.
He sheepishly got out of his car (sporting a 'man bun' and a well trimmed beard, wearing plimsolls and no socks, and ...ugh....'chinos'....) and looking at me, performed the international hand signals for "Can you give me a push, mate?"
My son and I laughed and drove past him. There was no way any sort of push was going to help there.
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While driving through the local roads a couple of weeks ago I got stuck behind a stationary vehicle that was blocking all comers at a T-Junction.

With no sign of movement I used the car horn, which I normally never do.

Turns out the car had broken down, so I offered to push to clear the road - there were probably ten or so cars backed up hither and yon so I reckoned we could have found a few other volunteers...

... Only to be told by the driver that the car could not be pushed. An electric car? I guess so...

So, a lot of reversing and three-point turning followed and we all vacated the area to leave them to it...
 
Stormkhan said:
Could not be pushed? I wonder at that.
Not having one I dunno about an EV but surely every vehicle can disengage the drive, allowing for free movement.
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You can't push either golf carts or disability scooters. I know, I've tried.

Maybe there are newer models that will freewheel but I'm certainly not trying again.
 
Stormkhan said:
Could not be pushed? I wonder at that.
Not having one I dunno about an EV but surely every vehicle can disengage the drive, allowing for free movement.
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Looking it up (I don't do cars), electric cars can be pushed if they have neutral, but seemingly not all do.

And there's a widespread belief apparently that automatic cars can't be pushed. They can, though without power steering it will be hard going.

For example, on the autojosh website: "I have seen people think they can’t push their car off the road when it develops a problem because it’s an automatic transmission."

So most likely it was a driver not knowing what their car can do. And given the quality of a lot of drivers, I can't say that's a surprise!!
 
Stormkhan said:
Could not be pushed? I wonder at that.
Not having one I dunno about an EV but surely every vehicle can disengage the drive, allowing for free movement.
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I tried to push an EV stuck on boggy ground a few months ago - first problem was two-wheel drive (front) and one of those wheels was off the ground. Second problem was because of the batteries, it weighed two tonnes.
 
From:
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
Peter Piot
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...e?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=IMawYw81bA&rank=1

We decided to launch UNAIDS at the UN in New York on World AIDS Day, December 1, 1995. Sally Cowal had ensured the participation of high-level diplomats, including Madeleine Albright, who was the US ambassador to the UN. The event was not a success. I was scheduled to make a speech in the ECOSOC chamber in the main UN building. We had invited all the delegations and a number of celebrities and activists. But we had failed to tell UN security that we were expecting outsiders, and many guests could not get past security on time. So we launched not with a bang but with a whimper.
 
hunck said:
No idea - on the Calstock river, Cornwall.

When seen, the windscreen wipers were apparently going & windows wound down.

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The article also mentions this incident -
Earlier this year a British couple was left mortified after they got their campervan stuck in the middle of a narrow street in Spain.
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Ignoring road signs will get you there.

Brings to mind my campervan's 99-point turn on a narrow one-way street in Caernarfon, north Wales, when I suddenly spotted the Low Arch sign. :omg:

Triggered. :nods:
 
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