Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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My uncle had a fairly easy job......in charge of the gunners on an Imperial Star Destroyer.
One day, he was asked to shoot down a "seemingly-empty" escape pod, but decided not to as there were no life-signs onboard.
It turned out that the pod, in fact, contained two droids, one of which had the plans for a new space station The Empire were building and managed to eventually pass them onto The Rebel Alliance. Ooops!
To cut a long story short: cue one exploded "Death Star", the destruction of both The Emperor and his assistant and the eventual dismantling of the whole of The Empire!!!
"My uncle's face" and "egg" were definitely in contact after that! He's been dining out on that story for YEARS, bless 'im!!!
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 18:52, 1 reply)
by coincidencemy uncle was the architect who decided to put one of the briefly fashionable "blow up the whole thing buttons" in the Death Star.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 11:54, closed)
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