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I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

I have heard of a certain king who had a jester or “fool” to make fun for him, as kings used to have. But this “fool” was no fool; he had much sense, and he had thought wisely about eternal matters. One day, when he had greatly pleased the king, his majesty gave him a stick, and said to him, “Tom, there…

I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…

A New Jersey man who cleans homes to supplement his income shared the story of how he accidentally went to a townhouse and left it spotless. Louis Angelino said he often cleans homes for friends to make extra money and was schedule to clean the home for his friend Mark. He arrived and found the key in…

The city of Brooksville, Florida discovered they had accidentally sold the town water town when a local business purchased an unused municipal building beneath the tower. The businessman Bobby Read, only wanted the building so he could convert it into a gym. When he went to the county to get the address…

Everyone makes mistakes. Some are caught on camera. Rodney King Jr., a Detroit resident order pizza for dinner. With anticipation, he was watching his front door camera to see when the pizza arrived. He was hungry and was ready to eat. Finally, the delivery driver arrived. However, the pizza fell out…

An intern at HBO Max mistakenly sent out a test email to a portion of their mailing list. The company followed up by apologizing for the mistake and threw the intern under the bus. The response from those receiving the message was supportive of the intern. One user wrote, “Once, when I was a junior copywriter,…

Painstakingly centered on the bricks of the entry into a parking garage in a Maldon, England are the words “NO ENRY.” The craftsman left out the “T” of the word entry. The Maldon District Council said the error would soon be corrected, but added, "If you're having a bad day... just know that someone…

Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…

“When you succeed, speak about it softly or let others mention it for you. But when you make a mistake say it clearly and loudly, so that everyone can learn and profit from your errors. In other words, ‘Whisper wins and shout mistakes.’” —No Rules Rules, 123 1 Peter 5:6–7 (CSB) Humble yourselves, therefore,…

Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…

FOOLISHNESS 25-year-old Param Sharma was arrested for “reckless driving” because he was in the back seat of his Tesla, without another person in the driver’s seat, as his Tesla was in either “Autopilot,” or “Full Self-Driving” mode. Apparently, the arrest has not changed Sharma’s resolve to be a backseat…

Millions of new Australian $50 bills contain an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked before the bills were printed and circulated. The bills are most widely circulated in Australia and makes up about half of the total value of banknotes in use. The new note was introduced in October 2018…

There is no doubt that identity theft is on the rise, and the collecting and selling of personal information, and fake ID’s is now big business. There seems to be a huge market for fake ID’s especially, and not always for illegal immigrants wishing to commit immigration fraud. Seems it might also be…

A Texas family said a fire that burned their front yard was started with their 12 year-year-old’s Christmas gift. Nissa-Lynn Parson said her son Cayden received a magnifying glass and after opening gifts, the boy and his brothers decided to use the gift to burn holes in a newspaper in the driveway. The…

Have you ever been on a journey, with someone else at the wheel, where you thought you were going someplace, only to end up in a completely different location? Happened not so long ago to the passengers on a British Airways flight out of London City Airport. They thought they were on a flight to Dusseldorf…

No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. One motorist in England said he forgot that he was driving a van rather than piloting his boat and drove right into flood waters. The local flood warden sent out a tweet, “Why do I bother advising drivers when they think ‘I know better’?” World Magazine, November…

It really is a world wide web! Sheila Pereira thought she was signing up to run a half Marathon in her hometown, but later discovered that it was not going to be in Worcester, Massachusetts, but would be in Worcester, England. She did not let her mistake keep her from her goals. She ran anyway. When…

When Lee Ann Walker became aware that she was in violation of a new rule put into place by the USGA and R&A, she reported the infraction to officials and added 58 penalty strokes to her score at the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2019/10/16/lee-anne-walker-shoots-127-senior-lpga-penalty-strokes/40327737/…

When he didn’t get the sauce with his Chicken McNuggets, Robert Golwitzer allegedly called McDonalds to threaten to blow the place up. The satisfaction he might have felt was short-lived however, because the Ankeny, Iowa police arrested him for the bomb threat. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bomb-threat-mcdonalds_n_60da2b7be4b09ead19f713ce…

Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a 25-year-old man from the area is facing jail time because he tried to forge his death certificate to avoid serving another jail sentence. The prosecutor said he might have been successful if not for the typos in the document.…

A Toronto man said he was surprised and confused when a package arrived at his home containing something that he had ordered eight years earlier. When the package was dropped off on his doorstep Elliot Berinstein said he was confused because he had not ordered anything from the company in a long time.…

One of the adaptations taken as a result of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic is the wearing of facemasks. According to some, wearing the facemask prevents droplets containing the virus from escaping through the mouth and nose to infect others. How then do you explain the Kentucky woman who approached a…

Residents of the Welsh town of Llandudno reported a herd of 122 Kashmiri goats overran the town during the lockdown, overrunning neighborhoods and eating plants. Locals said the goats wandered away from their home in a nearby country park and found a new habitant in city streets due to a reduction of…

During the coronavirus lockdown in England, British police received an emergency call informing them that the caller could hear someone snoring loudly and wanted police assistance to silence the noise. Rather than sending a unit, the emergency operator informed that caller that was not an appropriate…