The silliest mistakes of all time

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THE Record reported yesterday how an Israeli woman binned her mum's old mattress and threw away $1million in cash which was hidden inside.

 

Needless to say, the old woman's family have been frantically searching three landfill sites near Tel Aviv for her life savings.

 

But when it comes to costly mistakes, the Israeli family are certainly not alone.

 

Here are some of the world's silliest slip-ups.

 

A woman from Massachusetts accidently threw her wedding ring away with the rubbish while visiting Disney World in California. Luckily for her, staff spotted the piece of jewellery before it was put into a compacter.

 

A construction worker in Johannesburg was seen chipping away at a concrete pillar for days. Observers wondered how he was going to break down the pillar without the building's roof collapsing, as the pillar was the only thing holding it up. The answer was he wasn't. After a few days, the roof collapsed on top of him as he continued to chip away, killing him instantly.

 

A bored young man in America decided to discover what it was like to lay an egg. Having stuck a plastic toy Easter egg up his backside, he became seriously constipated. After a few days, he went to hospital where he was given a laxative.When that didn't work, he needed an operation, during which a large section of his colon was removed.

 

A British man, who tried to surprise his girlfriend by putting a diamond engagement ring in a helium balloon, saw his £8000 gift fly away when a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand as he left the shop.

 

A Californian woman, who put her engagement ring on her pinkie finger when she broke her arm, dropped it down a cinema toilet. But with the help of sewer workers and a lot of luck, she got the ring back.

 

A dad took his eight-year-old son to hospital with a large lesion on his neck, which had been getting worse for months. As skin cancer ran in the family, he was concerned. But his worry soon turned to embarrassment when the "lesion" was washed away with soap and water.

 

A security guard was trying to siphon fuel from an aircraft engine in California when the plane burst into flames and he had to be pulled from the wreckage. When asked how it happened, he admitted he had had trouble siphoning the fuel so had lit a match to see if there was a blockage inside the tank.

 

Another would-be petrol-siphoner in America accidently stuck his hose into a motor home's sewage tank instead. Police arrived to find the man curled up, being sick, next to the vehicle. The owner didn't want to press charges because it was the biggest laugh he'd had in ages.

 

A woman in Tennessee was so angry her husband had fallen asleep with a lit cigarette and burned a hole in the mattress that she left a lit cigarette on the bed the next day to show him what would have happened had she not caught it in time. The house burned down.

 

A 23-year-old Leeds criminal posted more than 80 videos on the internet of himself and others carrying out a range of offences, including leaving a petrol station without paying, taking class-A drugs and racing at high speed.

 

Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopier. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie-detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

 

A 35-year-old Sydney man lost some coins down a storm drain. He removed the cover, lay down on the road and stuck his head and upper body down the drain. Minutes later, a 4x4 struck him with its bumper. he was rushed to hospital with a broken pelvis and internal injuries. Had he been run over by the tyre instead of being hit by the bumper, police say it's unlikely that he would have survived.

 

A driver got his Porsche stuck on a level crossing while attempting to beat a red light. Witnesses saw him jump out in time to avoid being struck by a train, but then looked on in horror as the motorist ran towards the train waving his arms in an attempt to stop it crashing into his beloved sports car. Unsurprisingly, the man was hit by the train and killed.

 

WHAT A BALLS-UP

 

A Welshman called Geoff declared in 2005 that he would cut his testicles off if Wales beat England at rugby. They did, he tried and ended up in hospital.