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  1. mattymatt says:

    WHAT is the context for this one.

    • Rob says:

      QUEST FOR MEANING FAIL.

      Sometimes you have to accept that the world is a random place.

    • Gandalf says:

      So, this happened in Meadville, PA in 2008. The library at Allegheny College was being renovated, and the wrecking ball somehow broke free of its chain. It rolled down the hill into town, hitting some dozen cars (kinda like a pinball game down the street), finally slamming into the back of a students car. He only survived because his back seat had a bag of soccer balls he was taking to a game. Luckily this occurred during the summer, or the situation would have been much much worse!

  2. raita says:

    Right. What is this ball and where did it come from?

  3. Me says:

    I think i saw this in the years a couple years ago… a wrecking ball fell off its crane and rolled down the street into the back of a car.

  4. Me says:

    *correction* …saw this in the news a couple years ago… I just FAILed on my first comment.

  5. fall-line says:

    I remember this too.. here is the link to the news story with video
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19689640/

  6. Alcari says:

    I can imagine the owner thinking:
    “The insurance company is never going to buy this”

  7. Sa-weeeeeeet!

    Uh, as long as no one got hurt, that is.

  8. brett bacon says:

    Lol! This happened at my college. We’re very proud of this. We named our cafe “The Wrecking Ball Cafe”

  9. Hunter says:

    The wrecking ball of fail.

  10. Hunter says:

    Scott, 3 people were hurt by the failball.

  11. Anonymous says:

    Yeah I heard some of them lost a ball.

  12. DELLboy says:

    Nice link BMW, appropriate to the story and a car that truly FAILS too. LOL

  13. Croneybones says:

    This was in my town last year. Meadville, PA. The ball fucked up a bunch of curbs, dented like 8 cars, and hit someone at the red light.

  14. Anonymous says:

    This is what happens when you taunt happy failball

  15. Failz says:

    I just saw that ball in the subway flatbread ads!

  16. ittakesrealballz says:

    Does this count as a strike or a spare?

  17. Anonymous says:

    I love how bemused the police officer is. He has a totally “I love this job” look on his face.

  18. Anonymous says:

    Toor toor toor, i werd narrisch!

  19. Anonymous says:

    hahaha i remember this on the news.

  20. Anonymous says:

    Okay, now I just want to let a wreaking ball loose down a big hill and watch what it does….and not get caught of course :p

  21. Anonymous says:

    this looks shopped. the ball looks like a lo-res texture stretched over a sphere in Gimp.

  22. Emily says:

    The cop looks like he also was thinking of fail …
    He looked so amused,I love it.

  23. Damon says:

    Indeed, it’s his expression that really makes the pic work for me.

  24. Captain Wow says:

    Surprise buttsecks!

  25. joe says:

    This is right around the corner from where I work.

  26. Kylia says:

    This is my town.
    Sweetest fail ever.
    So fantastic, we wrote a song about it.
    We named the Wrecking ball and everything.
    It was Failtastic.

    Broke a workers arms, rolled into several cars, down the hill, into curbs, hit one car, which hit another, which was stopped not far from a cop car.
    Haha.

    My mom and I made a yield sign out of construction paper that said, “Wrecking Ball X-ing.”

  27. Jenny says:

    Anyone else got the “Indiana Jones” music stuck in their head?

  28. Dixonh says:

    Anyone ever see the “Gomer Pyle” TV show episode where this almost same thing happened?

  29. cole-da-mole says:

    uhhh…furball smuggling fail? wtf?

  30. shelby says:

    this incident happened in my hometown (Meadville, Pa) like three years ago, i was shocked to see this on my favorite website, lolz. they were doing some demolition at Allegheny College and the wrecking ball fell off and rolled like 2 miles or something like that. you can still see where the wrecking ball hit and bounced off the sides of the road. definite fail.

  31. connor says:

    ok…

  32. timothypickles says:

    dude it looks like a ginormous tennis ball.

  33. scott says:

    I laugh at the ford cause fords SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

  34. Kimi says:

    hmm….more like the epicfailball…..really though who has a ball that big any where!?

  35. JimmyJoe says:

    Location: Meadville, PA
    More Specifically: Allegheny College
    Context: My girlfriend’s dad’s construction management company hired a shitty wrecking crew with bad equipment. Ball broke off crane and rolled like 6 blocks through town damaging 10 cars.

    Gotta love western PA

    FAIL!

  36. Scott says:

    The name of the man operating the crane at the time: Robby Boring. The article linked above refers to him as Mr. Boring, too. Wow.

    Name FAIL.



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