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* And yet another: Despite already knowing that Australia is the driest continent in the world (seriously, check out the sheer amount of ''desert'' there is), no government there had a sufficient water-saving plan aside from the restrictions. This came back to bite them in the arse when the country was engulfed in an extreme drought, the likes of which had not been seen for the past several centuries. Of course, now they have the exact ''opposite'' problem...

* The [[wikipedia:Lake Peigneur#Disaster|Lake Peigneur disaster]] was caused by someone drilling for oil through a lake into a salt mine. Admittedly, they knew not to drill through the salt mine and just messed up when they were figuring out where to drill, but still.

* A lot of video games have been banned for controversy, but few will actually get you ''arrested'' for owning, and ''The Guy Game'' is this due to lack of foresight by the developers. Here's how it was made: the developers, Topheavy Studios (obviously a proxy) went to the South Padre Isle Spring Break Festival, and pretending to be a TV game show, interviewed a bunch of buxom, fun-loving - and possibly drunk - young women, asking trivia questions; if said girl got it wrong, she'd have to take her top off. They figured this could use this footage to produce an M-rated version of ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]'' and market it to horny male teenagers. Problem was, they never bothered to ask the age of the "contestants", and one was under 18, making the game technically child porn. The game was recalled, and a lawsuit later put Topheavy Studios out of business. Ironically, IGN reviewed it, and based on gameplay alone, gave it a 7.5 rating, describing it as "solid, simple, and fun", if lacking in replay value.

* A lot of video games have been banned for controversy, but few will actually get you ''arrested'' for owning, and ''The Guy Game'' is this due to lack of foresight by the developers. Here's how it was made: the developers, Topheavy Studios (obviously a proxy) went to the South Padre Isle Spring Break Festival, and pretending to be a TV game show, interviewed a bunch of buxom, fun-loving - and possibly drunk - young women, asking trivia questions; if said girl got it wrong, she'd have to take her top off. They figured this could use this footage to produce an M-rated version of ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]'' and market it to horny male teenagers. Problem was, they never bothered to ask the age of the "contestants", and one was under 18, making the game technically child porn (this is why pornographic film studios have gone through lengths to make sure that the actors they hired are of legal age and have consented to being in a porn production following the Traci Lords scandal of the 80s). The game was recalled, and a lawsuit later put Topheavy Studios out of business. Ironically, IGN reviewed it, and based on gameplay alone, gave it a 7.5 rating, describing it as "solid, simple, and fun", if lacking in replay value.

* During [[WW 2]], the Russians [[Action Bomb|strapped explosives to dogs]] trained to run at tanks. Once the tank ran over the dog, the pressure-activated explosives would total the tank. The only problem? They trained the dogs using Russian tanks made to look like German ones. But Russian tanks used diesel engines; German tank engines used petrol. When in doubt, they went with what ''smelled'' familiar. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoist by their own petard]] indeed.

** [[The Dog Bites Back]]. Though this is RUSSIA in [[WW 2]], the only reason they weren't using human suicide bombers was because dogs are quicker and smaller.