12 Valiant Attempts That Didn't Quite Pan Out

Every failure can be a lesson, but some of them are also a laugh. Life is all about trying and being open to sometimes losing. And to some people, failure happens pretty often, sometimes to the point where we wonder what these people were thinking when they came up with their ideas. From Reddit's /r/therewasanattempt, here are 11 examples of people who really did try their best to do the thing but ended up doing another thing entirely.

The unintended and magnificently memeable outcomes of their actions are funny, but the point here isn’t to make fun of them for being dumb. To err is human, as the old expression goes: everybody does it. Feeling along with these other humans, and remembering our constant susceptibility to failure, can both entertain and inform. Whether you go too far, or not quite far enough, you shouldn’t regret going in the first place: it’s always worth it to strike out and make an attempt.