cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14298049

...and it worked.

Just claim you're a bounty hunter and you can do whatever you want.

(for context, see the original thread on lemmygrad)

Glitch McConnell bricks himself.

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Compilation of failed attempts.

Piped link: People Who Tried to Show Off and Failed

EDIT: Set YT as primary link.

Squirrel attempts to fake injury/death with a broom. Failed as it was caught on video, nice try.

Honestly, I don't believe its fair to say "all you can eat" unless its true. Otherwise, you should put some type of detailed limit.

But attempts must have been made and probably continue.

An attempt was made to get people to come, I believe there was some miscommunication.

Elon Musk has tried to re-brand PayPal as "X" years ago and was shot down due to focus groups stating it reminded them of adult websites.

Thiel and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin plotted a coup against Musk while he was on his first vacation in years. The board fired Musk as CEO in September 2000 and replaced him with Thiel. Thiel formally changed the name of the combined company to PayPal in 2001.

1527: A 600-man Spanish expedition tried to colonize Florida, loses its ships, finds no gold, and gets routed by natives. Four survivors are left wandering naked.

Full information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narv%C3%A1ez_expeditionl

Interesting but potentially dangerous tactic, ultimately failed the attempt.

This did not help the situation, imo I don't believe they would actually be considered "less scary". But if they worked, they worked?

Actual article for more details here: Did you know Walt Disney designed the world’s weirdest gas mask?

Seriously, what's the error rate on these things anyways. It's pretty outrageous these days.