Not knowing by accident or other reasons, but these rare "bad jokes" situations cause severe consequences and consequences in many different areas.
The following are "unsupported" cases because of a mistake that occurred in less than a second, which caused millions of dollars in damage.
1. Last year, the Supreme Court found that Companies House was legally responsible for the collapse of Taylor & Sons Limited Liability Company. However, the government's website was inadvertently mistakenly mistaken for blaming responsibility on the business.
In fact, this affair is tied to another name: Taylor & Son is the real bankrupt company. Only a small "s" made the company "reluctant victims" lost a series of contracts, including $ 400,000 pledge to Tata Steel, and Companies House also suffered the same consequences. spending 8.8 million pounds ($ 12.9 million).
"The typographical error is very normal and is still happening," said Quark Enterprise Solutions vice president of marketing, Gavin Drake. "Little people know about them, but the consequences they leave are extremely heavy and unpredictable."
2. In 1963, Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, of the Royals, were stripped of their publishing licenses and fined £ 300 ($ 10,000 today) for missing the 3 letters "not". Little but very important in a Bible.
The seventh commandment, in 100 copies of the Bible, taught the flock "Thou shalt commit adultery."
King Charles ordered the burning of all of the prints, but nine books are still believed to have survived to this day, and even one was put on the auction table for up to £ 15,000 last year. .
Another historically incorrect typo is that in 1872, the US government lost $ 2 million (or $ 50 million today), after a "hitting" Code of US Import and Export Taxes. It must be "fruit-plants" instead, the harmful mistake that turns it into "fruit, plants" is tax-free.4. In 2007, Allsopp's Arctic Ale, which was brewed exclusively for Sir Edward Belcher during his famous 1852 Arctic Ale expedition trip by the company AB InBev (later), was auctioned off. on eBay. This rare item, repackaged and placed on the President's table in the White House, attracted 157 bids and the final price was raised to $ 503,300.
But what is worth mentioning here is that the seller actually earned a huge bargain because he bought the bottle for $ 304 before, because the previous owner had filled out a "p" in Only "Allsop" left. A half dollar worth of letters, can not imagine!
5. This is not the only case related to the price of a plane ticket, but this time it was especially special and memorable, as the Alitalia Airlines lost more than $ 7 million after 2000 people. Book tickets from Toronto to Cyprus for just the price. $ 39 (which should have been $ 3,900) in 2006.
6. Another downfall occurred when the US military lost $ 70 million in a deal with Lockheed Martin because the formula for the cost of expensive aircraft had an incorrect decimal ... at the right time.
Three years ago, Macy's jewelry company removed hundreds of necklace orders for just $ 47 each - a silly mistake that cost the company a dozen times as much because of the ring. old, the original price 1500 USD, should have discounted only 497 USD, not 47.
8. The first US launch in 1962, when trying to launch a spacecraft on Venus, caused NASA to "taste the bitter fruit" when the $ 80 million was gone only 293 seconds after the Marine 1 departure, because there is a hyphen in the programming code that the ship is set to follow.
9. Mizuho Securities, a subsidiary of Japan Financial Services, lost $ 340 million in 2005 due to a "silly" reversal mistake: the decision to sell 610,000 shares of a subsidiary to the price is only 1 yen per share, while in fact it must be 610,000 yen per share. The Tokyo Stock Exchange refused to intervene and amend the case.
10. One of the most illustrious examples of the "big tits" story is probably for this guy: Juan Pablo Davilar, working for a state-owned company called Codelco, has "thrown money through the window "takes $ 30 million when entering the wrong transaction data between the buyer and the seller. Panic and fear, the more Davilar stabbed into the dead end when the damage amounted to $ 175 million until the end of the day, and so on for the next six months, then the final number of 206 USD losses for the company.
