We are only human, and we all make mistakes, but sometimes mistakes have disastrous and life-changing consequences. Recently, someone asked the question, “Who destroyed their entire life by making one mistake?” Here are the top 19 replies.
Boban Jankovic (Basketball Player)
“After his fifth foul of the game, he had fouled out. In reaction to what he believed was a bad call at a crucial moment, he slammed his head hard against the padded concrete goalpost. He damaged his spine and was unable to walk for the rest of his life.”
“And the weight he gained from being wheelchair-bound stressed his heart so much that he died of heart failure at 42.”
Sam Ballard (Young Man From Sydney)
“I just read his story; in 2010, he ate a slug as a dare and was infected by a parasite carried by the slug, which put him in a coma and paralyzed him. He died eight years later at Hornsby hospital, surrounded by 20 of his friends and family.”
“I have a friend that did the same thing and also caught RLW from it; he’s not dead, though. He got lucky.”
Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann (Heart Surgeon)
“Respected cardiothoracic surgeon tells a guy to stop smoking right outside the hospital doors. The guy turns around and punches him a single time in the head. It was a so-called ‘king hit.’ He falls to the floor and hits his head again. On life support for four weeks. Nothing left to save.”
“It’s pretty scary out there. Patients feel entitled to treat you like absolute garbage.”
Andres Escobar (Soccer Player)
“He was a respected football player but made the mistake of scoring an own goal in an important World Cup game in 1994. He went back to his home country and got murdered for it as revenge for costing gangsters a lot of money on football bets.”
“That hits me the most. He would have had an amazing football career, but with one mistake, he was killed just like that.”
Ion Onut (Truck Driver)
“He caused the A1 horror crash involving several cars and two trucks. Three people died when he plowed into stationary traffic at 50mph. The crash and resulting fire were so horrific two people were only identified by their dead dog (it was microchipped). The truck driver was browsing dating sites on his phone. He is now in prison.”
Dennis Rader (Serial Killer)
“He called himself the BTK serial killer. He avoided arrest for 30 years, then, craving attention, began writing to the police, mocking them for never catching him. He asked the cops if they would be able to trace a floppy disk if he sent one to them. They said no. He sent it. They traced it. They arrested him, and he’s in prison for life.”
“No, we can’t trace your floppy disk, but our friends over in forensics can.”
William Crammond (Dive Tender, Byford Dolphin Oil Rig)
“He’s the guy that accidentally opened the clamp on the diving bell that was in the process of decompression on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in 1983.”
“The sudden change in pressure caused an explosion that killed five people. They found human remains as high as 10m above the oil platform.”
Richard Jewel (Security Guard, Atlanta Olympics)
“He’s the man who found the pipe bomb. The media and law enforcement absolutely ruined that guy’s life, accusing him of being the bomber. He was just doing his job (and did it well), and as a reward, he got publicly smeared for YEARS.”
“He didn’t actually make a mistake, though, which makes his situation even worse. As you said, he did his job and saved lives. It was other people who were wrong.”
Michael Richards (Comedian)
“He went ballistic on a comedy show; some black guests came late and annoyed him by heckling, so he went on a long tirade of racial slurs while going crazy.”
“He didn’t have the strength or resilience to weather the backlash, so it kind of destroyed him emotionally. That’s why it seemed like he never tried to get back on it.”
“His IMDB page looks like he died in 2006.”
Amy Cooper (The Central Park Karen)
“She said, I’m calling the cops; I’ll tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life!” Had this just been some dumb fight over a dog, people would have forgotten about it in a week, but she really dug herself a public grave with that gem.”
“For the past three years, she’s essentially been living in hiding. She moves whenever someone realizes who she is and lives in constant fear that she’ll be rediscovered.”
Gabriel Rivera (NFL Player)
“He was drafted by the Pittsburg Steelers. He was going to be the new anchor on their defense. Halfway through his rookie season, he crashed his new car while going double the speed limit while drunk and was ejected from the car. He lived but was paralyzed for the rest of his life.”
Louis Slotin (Physicist)
“That dude who was messing around with the ‘demon core’ with a screwdriver. Just one little slip-up, a flash of blue light, and just like that, his body was goop within nine days from the radiation poisoning.”
“You’d think after Harry Daghlian’s death eight months earlier, with the same plutonium core, he would have been so careful not to repeat the accident.”
Roseanne Barr (Comedian)
“Roseanne tweeted a racist statement about an Obama staff member. That one tweet cost her her show; they fired her, killed off her character, and renamed the show.”
“That was always going to happen. As soon as the reboot was announced, there were articles wondering how ABC would handle her wildly unpredictable social media presence.”
Howard Dean (Politician)
“His political career tanked with one silly yell that got blown up by the internet.”
“It was a simpler time. Now politicians can openly call for genocide and not take a hit at the polls.”
“I looked up the yell. I was expecting some guttural roar with racial slurs thrown in, considering how it damaged him. It’s just an over-excited guy having his voice crack.”
Pelle Lindbergh (Ice Hockey Goal Tender)
“He was the Swedish goalie for the Ice Hockey team, the Philadelphia Flyers, in the 1980s. The dude is still regarded as one of the best goalies to ever play for the Flyers. But he drove drunk and crashed his car going over 100mph. He died in the crash.”
Alexei Petrovich (Tsarevich of Russia)
“In 1716, he fled Russia to escape his father. When emissaries came to bring him back, he returned on the condition he wouldn’t be harmed. This was a mistake. It resulted in him being implicated in a treason plot and ultimately cost him his life.”
“His other mistake was falling in love with his Finnish slave. She ultimately betrayed him to his father by implicating him in a treason plot.”
Henry Ruggs II (NFL Player)
“The dude was an all-star in the NFL. He had fame AND money. He drinks & drives, crashing into an innocent woman with her dog. The car bursts into flames, burning both of them to death. A person died. A dog died. Because he drank and drove.”
“Incredibly poor judgment caused a person to lose her life and him to go from literally living the high life to being behind bars.”
Monica Lewinsky (White House Staff Member)
“It’s sad she was blamed for everything.”
“I have never seen a man get such treatment by the media. Such a glaring double standard.”
Ashlee Simpson (Pop Singer)
“That disastrous lip-syncing debacle on SNL. Poor girl’s career never recovered.”
“She wasn’t even lip-synching; she was singing along to a backing vocal track, which pretty much all pop singers do when performing live.”
“Oh man, she played the halftime show at the Orange Bowl that year, and the stadium booed her off quite loudly. Poor girl.”
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