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Oh, hope you didn’t actually want to USE the garage.
I think it’s actually a crucifix. They just wanted to make it much bigger than the cross in the neighbors yard to the right. I always hate it when neighbors try to outdo each other.
Reply fail.
omg lyke omg
i think what happened was korn
its two ‘lanes’ look at the car on the right for size
Waiter…..there’s a POLE in my soup….
Bad Joke made worse FAIL
OOOh, that is a big stick!!!
sir… you asking for a bend over comment?
Bend over and Ill show you a bend over comment
That’s photoshopped
no city would be that stupid
The fact that “cities” are this stupid is what makes this so funny and believable.
It’s a flag pole, you can see the rope going down the side of the pole. and there is plenty room on either side of the driveway to drive a car. unobservant FAIL.
Flagpole is thinner.
Size fail, just like the rest of you.
haha actually the home owners were pwned. she complained that she didn’t want the pole in front of her picture window and made such an annoyance of herself that they put it there.
It’s not fake. I live in that city, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. It’s on Farm St.
wait, it’s STILL there? more than 24 hours after it was put there? hm… maybe one of the benefits of living in a litigious society? (i.e., i don’t see anyone in the u.s. putting up with that for very long)O
Well, it’s been there for over a year now – although in the last couple of days the electricity company has been seen hanging around it, so there’s a chance they’re actually thinking of attempting to move the pole. Oh, I hope not
Hello all fellow Rockhampton people! Screw the cows, we have a famous pole!
My parent’s home town in Puerto rico had a telephone pole in the middle of the street. They just removed it this year. (3 years after a plaza was designed near it)
Yes, cities can be stupid. (Should have gotten a picture. Damn)
maybe they drive a motorcycle…
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Comment fail
lol! super FAIL
Maybe they drive mini coopers.
or motor bikes!
Gee Ocifer, Yes Drinking I have and that pole…………………….
“Fine! Fine you little brat! You want a basketball hoop in the driveway?! How about one 100 feet tall? Let’s see you win at horse now!”
ROTFLOL
“Daaaad, I need the new Nikes! Everyone has them! How else am I going to dunk at 100 feet in the new basketball court when I suck this badly? COME ON! Do you want me to fail at life?!?”
This comment fails at life.
Fail win?
LOL! That’s awesome!
Scan is finished! No driveways were founded!
Comment win.
I think the real fail is that hideous blue house next door, actually.
I think that is actually called “Robin’s Egg”.
Robin’s egg? As in the color? YES but don’t teach people new colors.
A once great comedian said that if a male knows more than 8 colors he is gay.
BEWARE OF WHAT YOU TELL THEM
How can you be sure that the commentor ISN’T gay or a woman?
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
!
if you know one more color than the rainbow, you’re gay! : P
Maroon! Aw, shit…..
#FFFFFF
That’s a coloUr.
Definitely not gay though!
I could acttually name you 16777215 more colours
Still not gay though.
Wanna know how you know you need help? When you say something like that. Even moreso when you say something like that and expect it to come across as amusing or cool.
Or is it really only when you know more powers of 2 than you have fingers and toes?
Is #FFFFFF a presence of all light, or a reflection of all light? Or perhaps it is the absence of no light? Don’t ask GLaDOS. (cake fail?)
Brown
oh shi..
actually saying indigo and violet instead of purple seems a little gay to me
ITS THE BLUE SCREEN TO YOUR SPY WARE
LIKE THE DRIVEWARE TO YOUR BLUE HOUSE NEIGHBOUR
XP i dunno anymore….
This comment is so fail I don’t know where to begin.
Is it *painted* that colour? I thought it was just those blue tarpaulins they sometimes put around buildings while they’re still under construction.
If that happened to me, someone’s @$$ would be in a sling, and it wouldn’t be mine!
AND, said hanging @$$ would be suspended from the utility pole they themselves placed.
But of course. That neighborhood looks like it needs some major decorations.
Is it a utility fail or a driveway fail? Or perhaps they were just getting back at the owners of the house for not paying the bill?
Sad to say this happens a lot. Especially in trendy areas. They build a house, garage, whatever & then demand the utilities to move their pre-existing equipment gratis. Too egotistical to just look at the space before designing the pile o’trash.
This is a trendy area? You have got to be kidding me.
he said especially in trendy areas, not exclusively in trendy areas
It does happen a lot, but not just trendy areas with new houses. I’ve lived in communities where they’ve had to upgrade the grid, move poles, etc. The houses are there already and be damned if you happen to have a driveway that falls within the spacing of the poles.
does anyone know where this is?
It’s at the corner of Adobe and Photoshop.
I mean, for fuck’s sake, this isn’t even remotely believable. I give them credit for getting the shadows correct, but this is just nonsense. But go ahead, call it a fail if you want.
Google Maps street view was launched in Australia in the last week and you can see on here that it is clearly an electricity pole in the middle of the driveway. The address is 413 Farm St, Rockhampton, Queensland Australia.
Doesn’t look like a corner lot to me.
I think it’s in the middle of Photoeditor Avenue.
http://graphjam.com/2008/06/13/song-chart-memes-location-of-house/#more-1685
… and it’s an OLD Photochop, like 2.x or 3.x
I remember seeing this in our local newspaper at least a few years ago. I’m pretty sure it’s in Australia here, and there was some wankery going on between the builder, and the owners, as the builder (obviously) failed at reading the plans, and this was the result.
Definitely not a photoshoppy, coz, dude, it was in the newspaper – in print. It must be trufax.
because, of course, everything that appears in print HAS to be true
Actually yes i know where it is. Its in a city called rockhampton in queensland australia. I saw it about 10 years ago now lol i was puzzled when i saw it as well fucken wankers
It is in Rockhampton Australia. Just down the road from me.
And at the risk of ruining a good joke, it’s not as bad as it looks. It’s a two car garage and there is room on either side of the pole for a car.
Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. Farm Street.
I would call this a home-builder fail. The utility poles are typically in place when houses are built after all…
uh … it’s a flagpole, not a utility pole (it looks like they have underground utilities, anyway)
no way, observer.. it is totally a crow’s nest: neighborhood watch win!
Isn’t that a flag pole and not a utility pole? That looks like the string to draw the flag up on the front of the pole.
But regardless… FAIL
No way this is real. Cities have permits for this exact reason. Photoshop win?
If that’s photoshopped, they did a damn good job with the lighting and shadows.
You’re not very good with photoshop, are you?
i felt bad when he couldn’t go on vacation.
Given that this was actually from a news story, and that it really happened (because people really can be quite stupid when they put their minds to it), I’d have to say you’re not very good with using your eyes, are you?
Pff, they can photoshop anything and make us believe it. Sorry, but its a bit obvious here.
How I would Photoshop it.
1 get house with pole in front of it with no driveway
2 Get pic of house with Driveway, able to cover house in original pic
3 make layer of flag/utility pole, bring to front
4 Paste pic of house and driveway between original and flagpole layer
5 Admire my handy work of having a pic with proper shadows and lighting to fool people on failblog.org.
Then go kill yourself due to lack of life…
Photoshopped
My that´s one long stick u got there Mr. Driveway D;
o.o
This actually happened to my aunt. They built a house and while they were building it, AT&T came in and put one of those hideous green boxes smack in the middle of their driveway. Because that’s just where the guy was told to install it. It took over a year and lots of cursing for my uncle to get AT&T out there to move the daft thing.
Yeah, this happened to my cousin’s brother’s wife. The city just decided to build a huge flagpole to fly their confederate flag, and plopped it right down in the middle of their driveway. And now birds sit on the flagpole and poop all over their driveway, and he’s always washing it. Oh, and the flag flaps so loud they can’t get to sleep. (geez)
Wouldn’t your brother’s cousin also be your cousin?
Family fail.
He said “cousin’s brother’s wife” not “brother’s cousin’s wife” you nit.
Learn to read before you comment on how stupid someone else is first!
The brother of my cousin is also my cousin, so it still is a fail….Hah makes it an epic one though:
“Learn to read before you comment on how stupid someone else is first!”
Although he did mix it up, it would still be a cousin. Cousin’s brother is assuming that they have the same father…being that guy’s uncle. Making the brother just another cousin. Unless they are black, and they call every one their “brother”then that’s acceptable to elongate that.
brothers cousins is also his dad right?
is this happening in west virginia?
Not if it’s a half-brother.
Oh, that’s my house! That’s our zeppelin docking pole. It’s windmill-powered; we bought it from Al Gore.
FIRST!
Almost ;]
More like 26th.
Actually, all the boys who cried “Photoshop” need to look at the shadow emanating from the pole.
Rudimentary knowledge of dark and light FAIL
Because it’s impossible to Photoshop a shadow?
yes, they can only be emanated.
In theory that is 413 Farm Street, Rockhampton, Australia -OR- 413 Farm Street, Norman Gardens QLD 4701, Australia. The background is that the pole was there before the house was built and the architect didn’t bother to check the lot and the builder didn’t care.
You can check it out on Google Earth:
Lat: 23°19′47.00″S
Lon: 150°31′50.44″E
There’s clearly a shadow of some sort at the end of the driveway.
Enter the lat/lon like this if you want to see the house via google maps. -23°19′47.00″, 150°31′50.44″. Unfortunately, the resolution on maps is so bad that I can’t see the pole, but it’s definitely the same three houses.
Good work, NoThanks!
I wonder if anyone is going to make a failblog list for google earth/maps. That would be awesome… failure that you can see from space.
I typed that in and there is a giant A in their driveway!!!1!
try this one:
32.676154, -117.157680
too much time on their hands fail
there we go. i checked it out and it is obviously not photoshopped.
That house was built in the wrong place
that or else the pole was put in the wrong place..
Bend over and I’ll show you a pole put in the wrong place. Ba-ZING!
Now you know why I choose the “wrong house” option =/
There’s grass around the pole and the driveway splits and wings out on either side single-car width. Looks like an intentional compromise situation. Not great for curb appeal or resale value, though.
Lol funny fail.
flag pole identification fail
I fail to understand the importance of first comment. :{{{
But yeah, a flag pole/whatever in front of a house is pretty fail.
Photoshop even bigger fail.
Paint the pole black; I hear that it minimizes.
New government mandate to force everyone to ride bikes.
Huh,
So, is every pic on this site Photoshopped, or do the haters just need to believe that the world is perfect?
Not shopped. If you type the coordinates: -23°19′47.00″, 150°31′50.44″ into Google Earth and zoom in pretty close, you can barely make out the shadow cast by the flagpole on the driveway. So yeah, it’s a real fail.
underground utilities…yes (there are no wires anywhere)….basketball hoop pole….no (no lines in the driveway)…flag pole….(hmmmm, way stupid like like that makes me giggle)…just general stupidity on some-ones part…..(could be, but, um….)…photoshopped…mebe….mebe MORE than mebe… (good shadows et al, only a tad wide at the curb gives it a ps look….maybe they’re using ps6 and not cs3)
I think people were joking when they said those things.
yuh, ok…see….i only DYE my hair blonde….please tell me 1 more time, um, how do i hit the series of keys to let every-one know i’m FREAKING KIDDING!!! (sorry…had to get that out…have a nice day-ok?)
Since when is dying your hair an excuse for being a stupid fool?
or not being funny?
stupid fool? wow….your witty reparte is wonderful AND creative!! thank you!! (no wonder you’re “anonymous”….)
Looks like no one even lives in the house.
well what we can’t see is that there is actaually a moving truck just outside of the frame that they have been trying to get into the driveway for months now. oh how irritating
Not a fail, a single guy with a Yamaha lives there.
Even if it is real, that’s obviously a two-car garage. Not as big a FAIL™ as previously thought.
Possibly they paid less for their house than their neighbours because of it. I’d be happy to get a cheap house because a flag-pole blocks the driveway as I don’t own a car.
Important compromise with house prices the way they are. Though I wouldn’t buy such an ugly house as that one. I’m a shack-in-the-woods kinda guy…
BOW DOWN AND WORHIP MY DRIVEWAY PHALLUS!!!!
ooops… “worship”…. never mind.
war-ship?
everyone should have a nice driveway phallus.
This screams photoshop.
Actually, maybe they built the house behind the poll.
What kind of poll was it? An opinion poll?
effective community research win!
witty comment on misspelling WIN
waiter….there’s a POLE in my soup….
Guys who have bought it failed at life
Photoshop fail.
Not to comment one way or another on this photo, but is someone yelling PHOTOSHOPPED as inevitable as some twit typing FIRST?
or “in soviet russia, utilities pole you!
bend over, i’ll show you inevitable
almost as inevitable as “in soviet russia, utilities pole you!”
or in soviet russia poles utilize you?….uh….never mind…
я пробовать и недоставать (inter-tran works well too)
and since failblog seems to be filtering another overused joke, i will say it in russian:
Загиб сверх и я покажем вас неизбежные.
babelfish.yahoo.com is handy
ok, so it wasn’t filtering, i was just _triple_ posting! i hang my head in shame
This is real. I saw a news report on it a year or so ago. If I remember correctly the house was actually there first.
Home builder fail, utility easement win!
Somebody took thier chances that the utility would not use thier easement on the property, turns out that was a bad bet.
Clear title fail.
LAST
it’s actually where the grocery fail people live
anyone who says that this is photoshopped is a complete idiot. cause i bet that none of those “photoshopped!!”-commenters have ever used photoshop. i use photoshop every day cause it’s my fuckin job. so this fail is completely real and a correct fail (if something like a correct fail exists).
FUCK YOU “PHOTOSHOPPED”-BITCHES!!
Reasoning fail.
The house is definatly in Australia, not West Virginia like some people here think. Because the front-garden of robin’s egg blue house nextdoor has a black-boy plant growing in it, and they only grow in Australia. Plus, there’s a gum tree in the background and there’s also a white, rusty Holden ute in their driveway, which is the average Aussie’s car.
I should know, coz I’m a Proud Aussie
Cultural reference fail…
(In the US, citing West Virginia is usually a reference to a place filled with inbred, uneducated, and generally very scary people…sort of like a blonde joke, only instead of blondes being idiots, it’s West Virginians. Big apologies to any non-inbred, non-uneducated, non-idiot, and non-scary West Virginians amongst us.)
“non-uneducated?” The next time I fill out a form for something, and they ask about education, I’m going to put down “non-uneducated.”
I was a “non-straight F” student. I graduated at the “not bottom” of my class.
I was in the “non bottom” 90%. I graduated “not non cum laude”
…O.K. I’m done. Not really, but that’s all I can think of right now.
Ok…”non-straight F student” made me giggle like a 12-year-old. Mayhap and perchance you meant “straight non-F student”??
i referenced west virginia earlier in response to a long boring discussion of cousins and other relatives and how the all relate. i was going for the inbreeding thing.
Mystique, you are correct. Its real and not photoshopped
I know roughly where that house is. Initially there was a driveway to the left of the pole which did not pose a hinderence.
So the story goes, the home owner added/extended the garage thinking the utility would automatically relocate the pole for him free of charge!
When he told the utility (after the garage was already built) they said they would do it but he would have to pay for the pole relocation. He was shocked refused and the photo is the net result.
Home extension fail.
FIRST!
Just try to realize that there is no spoon.
whats the problem. its clearly a double garage, so the cars will easily fit either side.
=O pole position!
lawlz
so in actuality, you’re saying you’re first >_>
Fail.
FIRST!!!!!!!!
Photoshopped!
This is pretty old actually I can’t remember where i saw it but it was quite some time ago now.
In Soviet Russia they build house in front of pole.
next commenter is gay
if i am correct that is NOT a flagpole, its a lamp post, and if you noticed there is enough space for two cars to go either side of said lamp post NOT FAIL
Ah your gay
Oh, shuddup ya homaphobe! Go back to West Virginia where inbred, gay-hating Bible-thumpers like you belong!!!
Picture is real, verified by the coordinates that several people here have listed. Someone photoshop me a picture like it, if you think it’s so easy. On top of that, I checked out the shadow on the google earth image and it is stertching Northwest, same as the shadow coming from everything else in the area. And the shadow starts (not stops) in the middle of the driveway. Even if it were the mailbox shadow defiantly going the opposite direction of every other shadow, it wouldn’t be long enough to stretch that far. Plus the mailbox is behind the sidewalk, the shadow goes in front of it. It took me all of 2 minutes to conclude that this picture is real, so for those of you who scream about too much time on my hands, stop masturbating, you hypocrites.
Win.
Dragonwriter,
well so-ree! I’ve never been to America before, so I don’t know about all the individual state cultures and stereotypes. I don’t really know what your comment really meant, but I’m throwing off anyway.
P.S. Which state are YOU from, exactly?
Woops…sorry, I didn’t mean for that to sound snarky. I was just trying to explain, not to say you were stupid for not knowing.
Mea culpa.
I swear that this picture isn’t photoshopped.
Oh wait. hmmmm…..
http://picasaweb.google.com/Punkinhead2/PhizzleFail/photo#5227489049932437746
Your photoshop is a terrible photoshop, and on top of that you missed the even bigger point. You can go on Google Earth and see the shadow of the pole coming from the middle of the driveway. The coordinates have been provided, the address, and witnesses have seen this exact house. But hey, good job creating a bad picture to discredit my least important point, which actually wasn’t about whether it could be done, but how easy it would be to do it. Way to read my entire post. You could have at least picked on me for misspelling.
I think the post is a blessing to the house owner. They will be save from accident..
only the yanks
I’ve seen that !
so photoshoped