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Plans That Didn’t Go As Expected – Part 4 · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'll admit, I make plans that go wrong all the time.
• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go out to buy milk and get the wrong kind, or I'll accidentally reveal my face in a YouTube video and have to delete it immediately.
• 0:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: You guys just aren't ready for that yet.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, there are plenty of people out there who's plans have taken a much worse turn than mine.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: From explosive miscalculations to bullying backfires, let's explore even more plans that didn't go as expected.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the last decade, South Korea has become a hub for cheap professional cosmetic surgery.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: So much so that many clinics advertise plastic surgery travel packages to encourage tourists to get a little work done abroad.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But back in two thousand seventeen, it became clear that these travel packages came with a few hiccups.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three Chinese tourists had flown over to the capital city soul, gotten a few facelifts, and then headed back to the airport to fly back to China.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only their faces had been so radically altered and heavily bandaged that they looked nothing like their passport photos.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unable to confirm their identity, the three women were not allowed to board their plane, and were held for questioning by airport authorities.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that surprising, maybe not even their own mothers would have recognized them.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now have you ever tossed a coin into a body of water for luck, like throwing a penny in a wishing well, or a quarter in a fountain?
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a gesture that stems from ancient traditions the world over, where people would symbolically pay to pray to their gods.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes the answer to a prayer is a straight-up, no.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in twenty twenty, a first-time flyer in China decided to bless his plane with good luck by throwing coins right into the engine.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ironically, throwing foreign objects into a plane engine is a pretty surefire way of ensuring you don't arrive safely at your destination.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: After the ground team of the coincidentally named Lucky Air found a few coins near the plane's left engine, they quiz the passenger who happily admitted it.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: The flight was grounded due to safety concerns, the one hundred sixty-two other passengers had their flight delayed, and legal action was taken against the luckless coin flinger.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was eventually charged one hundred twenty thousand when, roughly nineteen thousand dollars, or the disruption.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's hope he didn't try to add a little luck in the courtroom by flinging coins at the judge.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything funnier than watching boomers and old people working out how to use new technology?
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Video conferencing software zoom is always a good one because the camera usually ends up pointed in a weird direction and helping them figure out the mic settings is near impossible.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But back in twenty twenty, when the pandemic hit and Zoom was the only way a lot of people could continue doing business a peak boomer moment happened.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: During a civil forfeiture case, lawyer Rod Ponton planned to appear before a judge of the three hundred ninety-fourth judicial district court in Texas over Zoom.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: But when he logged in there was something a little unprofessional about his appearance.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was using a hilarious cat filter.
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently Rod's child had used his laptop before him and had left the filter on, but Rod had no idea how to turn it off.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now seeing how hard it is for some people to find the right button?
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me make this next bit really easy.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see the big button written follow in your screen?
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it's written follow instead of following, just click on it.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty hard to miss.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: All done.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Great.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now what have we got next?
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Admitted, everyone loves a good costume party.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing beats seeing someone dressed up in a creative costume they've clearly made themselves, but sometimes making a costume yourself comes with a catch, as Uyam Labanon found out the hard way.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: They decided to dress up as a balloon bouquet to a Halloween party, painting their face bright blue to fit in with the bunch of balloons they taped to their head.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was just one problem.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: After the party, the face paint wouldn't come off.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: They scrubbed over and over, but the blue paint had stained the skin on their hands and face.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: After forty-five minutes of scrubbing, they changed tactics and started using maceler water before desperately resorting to olive oil.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But after another forty-five minutes, the stain was still pretty obvious, so they gave up and went to bed.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you might be wondering how a simple face paint can cause this much chaos.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, blue face paints can leach into the skin, and because their contrast against most skin tones is so dark, they show up as a stain compared to other colors.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: But back to Uyam.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: getting desperate OEM eventually decided to use bleach on the skin to get the remainder of the paint off.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really shouldn't have to say this, but never, ever use toxic or corrosive products on your skin, unless you want to end up with chemical burns.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now initially, I didn't think this face paint could have been that bad, but I looked up the brand she used and it's gathered almost thirty one star reviews online with all of them claiming the blue paint wouldn't shift from their skin.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you plan on painting your entire face in the future, might I suggest reading the product reviews first?
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, always make sure you do that before you buy anything.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Next up, there are losers, there are cowards, and then there are bullies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The absolute bottom of the barrel variety of human.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: People who make themselves feel better by putting others down unnecessarily are just pathetic.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: But sadly, these were the kind of people Whitney Crop had to deal with back in two thousand twelve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A sophomore at O Jamal Heights High School, Whitney had been bullied relentlessly by some of her classmates over the years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But they stoop to a whole new level of low when they voted Whitney into the homecoming court, just to try and show her up in front of the entire school.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Initially Whitney was delighted to have been nominated, but her heart broke when she learned it had been done as a sick joke, and the male student who was elected with her head withdrawn.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She would have to face the entire school alone, knowing they had only put her there to humiliate her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What a sick thing to do.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, Whitney was about to turn everything around.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: News spread on Facebook of what had happened, and she suddenly received many donations from strangers to help her get the homecoming dress, hair, and makeup of her dreams.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then, when it was time to face the school, the entire town turned up with placards and messages of support for Whitney.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: National news outlets put a spotlight on the event, and students from other schools and towns even showed up all cheering for Whitney.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bully's plan had backfired horribly, and all well Whitney was having the time of her life.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, whoever they are, I reckon those bullies will never forget their homecoming celebration, or the lesson it taught them.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now they say, if you're prepared to do the crime, be prepared to do the time.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: But this was something Raphael Valado and three others thought they could bypass back in two thousand twelve.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Confined in a prison in series Brazil, the creative convicts had loosened a metal shower pipe, and at two in the morning, without the knowledge of the guards, they used it to batter through a section of wall in their cell.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: The first of them squeezed through the jagged concrete gap and escaped down the corridor on the other side.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: But their plan fell apart when Raphael, who was a little larger than the first guy, promptly got stuck in the hole.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: His top half was home free, but his traitorously big belly and backside wouldn't budge.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: His cellmates tried to push him through, but it was no use.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Raphael was stuck.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Raphael wailed for help, and when the guards turned up, they mocked him ruthlessly before calling the fire brigade to cut him out of the wall.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of a low-key prison escape, these embarrassing photos of Raphael were plastered all over the news as he recovered in hospital.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about being criminally dumb.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We all have a favorite YouTube video, minds of video of a seal that someone put captions on.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a classic, and it gets me every time.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as much as I love it, I'm not sure I'd get a QR code linking to the video tattooed on my leg, like this next guy did.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in two thousand nineteen this avid club at Letaco River played fan decided to get a QR code linking to a video of some of his team's greatest goals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In hilariously crappy quality, I should add.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: The tattoo was undeniably complex but amazingly the link worked.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite the bad quality, this is kind of genius, right?
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: But before you all go getting QR code tattoos linking to your own favorite videos, this didn't go quite to plan.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see the video called LA Gloria Eternia used a piece of music that wasn't copyright free.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyone familiar with YouTube's trigger-happy copyright hammer knows where I'm going with this.
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: mere days after this fan got his tattoo, the video was taken down by the copyright owner of the music for unauthorized use.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: This left our soccer fan with a huge QR code tattooed on his leg that led to a black screen, which read video not available.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the gods of soccer were smiling on this fan, and after a few months the video was luckily reinstated.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: talk about it being touching go at half time.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: McDonald's is a business that's always jumping on new marketing creases that'll help them sell even more burgers.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So over in New Zealand back in two thousand sixteen as interactive promotions started to take off, McDonald's HQ decided to test a brand new, create your own burger campaign.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was simple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Customers could design and name their own burger online for free, and when they ordered it in store, they'd be rewarded with free fries and a drink.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: But this is the internet.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is safe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Heck, we couldn't even be trusted to name a boat via a pole at one time.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember Boatie McBoatface?
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And with that said, McDonald's unmoderated campaign went about as well as you could expect.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here are a few of my personal favorites, the Super Mario North Korea ration, the carbinator, girth, bag of lettuce, the sad European, who farted and the list goes on.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And those were some of the tamar ones.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, McDonald's had massively misjudged the campaign.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hundreds of unmotorated submissions were posted before the site was taken down.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess you could say they ordered this campaign to go?
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if adverts and movies are anything to go by, the USA would have you believe that serving in the military is all armor, ships, tanks, and cool guns.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we all know that these adverts are staged, and that a real battlefield is horrifyingly different to a Hollywood set.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: That said, soldiers are still some of the bravest people among us, even though many have been negatively affected by harrowing death-defying experiences.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: but whoever was in charge of the U.S.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Army's Twitter account back in two thousand nineteen appeared to be blissfully ignorant of this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They posted the question, how has serving impacted you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Clearly expecting everyone to line up to post nothing but praise for the military.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, they were flooded with responses from rightfully angry veterans and family members who'd suffered from depression, anxiety, destroyed hearing, pain, grief.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: lost limbs and lost lives.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: The backlash from the thousands of replies that exposed some of the cold, hard realities of serving was so great that time magazine ran an article about it.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely not the winning PR strategy they thought this tweet would prompt.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you were a kid, did you ever pretend to be sick so you could stay home from school?
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the old run that thermometer under hot water to pretend you have a fever trick, or the mix up some canned veg and leave it in the toilet like it's vomit trick.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really hated school, but not as much as Lily's schoolie from the UK does.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in two thousand nineteen the then six-year-old noticed her friends had to stay home from school for a few days when they all caught the chicken pox, a mild but highly contagious infection.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: This gave Lily a brilliant idea.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: She used a red pen to draw dots all over her legs, face and hands.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Chicken pox style.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No school for her.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was just one problem with her plan, though.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: She'd accidentally used a permanent marker, so not only did Lily's mum see straight through this red face lie, but Lily also had to go to school covered in bright red dots.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Lily, I have to give that an A plus for effort, but an F for execution.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: During the late two thousands, a weird new trend began sweeping the US.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gender reveal parties, expecting parents would cut into a cake or pop a balloon, revealing blue for a boy or pink for a girl.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't stop there.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The trends started to spread and these reveals got bigger and weirder by the day.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: From setting off colored smoke bombs in the park, two influencers lighting up the entire Burj Khalifa in their baby's gender colors.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: But one that really left a mark, though not in a good way, happened in Arizona in two thousand seventeen.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: A border patrol agent and his wife had set up a huge package filled with colored powder in the middle of the Arizona brush.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was rigged with Tannerite, an explosive substance designed to detonate when shot.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But once they hit that trigger, it wasn't just the package that went up and smoke, the whole thing started to catch fire.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: This eventually became the sawmill fire, a deadly wild fire that scorched more than forty-seven thousand acres of land, causing more than eight point two million dollars of damage.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: The ignorant agent was forced to pay back two hundred twenty thousand dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to starting the fire a few months later.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: All that just to learn they were having a boy really doesn't seem worth it does it.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Weddings can be some of the best parties on earth.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: You get all dressed up, witness the power of love, drink the free bar dry, and remember the day with some hilarious snaps.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: The crazier, the better, right?
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, not always.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Grumesman Lee Coleman was part of a photo shoot for his best friends wedding when he decided to pull out some moves to really make the pictures pop.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: But that wasn't the only thing that popped.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: The seam on his trousers burst, splitting right up the middle.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this was right before the ceremony.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He hastily employed the help of a nearby bridesmaid who ended up sewing and taping him into the pants just in time for the big event.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, the bridesmaid did such a good job.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: The emergency fix apparently lasted all the way through the reception.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, at least he was wearing fresh underwear.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jens, I can't believe I have to say this.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you send a picture of your junk to women who don't ask for it, then you're just as pathetic as your presumably tiny pickle is.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, it's just weird, and some women simply won't put up with your desperate attempts of trying to get their attention, like this next Twitter user.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: She received a message from a man asking her to laugh at his junk, which is an incredibly weird request.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: When she said no, he sent a picture anyway.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: He probably expected her to pay attention to him in some perverse way, but instead this lady came up with an ingenious reply.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: She created what looked like an automated message, claiming an AI bot had identified that an unsolicited picture had been sent.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It also claimed his account along with all his associated information like his email address and location had been reported to the police.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, if he just replied help, they'd look into the matter and the local authorities wouldn't contact him.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like the massive man child this guy was, he begged for help and big capital letters.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't think this guy expected to be squirming with anxiety for twenty-four hours, wondering if the police were going to come knock at his door when he sent this pathetic pick?
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully he'll think twice before doing so, ever again.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the last one.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a caffeine-fiend like me, you'll know that cutting down on things like coffee and energy drinks can be a nightmare.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Caffeine itself acts as a central nervous stimulant, helping you feel more awake.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, an overreliance on it can leave you feeling sluggish.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, when one reddit user and coffee lover decided to get in the best mindset possible for their big upcoming log exam, they chose to quit coffee altogether.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: For a whole month, they studied hard and didn't touch the stuff.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then right before the big exam, they downed a cup of the delicious morning brown.
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: They thought it would give them the boost they needed to feel more awake during the exam.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty smart thinking, but that's not all that happened.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, caffeine isn't just a stimulant, it's also a laxative.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: This meant that as well as getting a boost, this poor law student had to rush to the bathroom and spent thirty minutes of precious exam time battling about of explosive diarrhea.
• 18:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy, what a crappy decision.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you were amazed at these plans that didn't go as expected, you might want to check out the previous parts of this series.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening.