Tell your best work related screw up story!

About 20 yrs. ago I worked for an independant exotic foriegn car repair shop on the south shore of Long Island in Hewlett Harbor. BIG money area. We had everything from VW's to Rolls Royce customers. One of our better customers had about 1/2 dozen semi-neat cars. An old 4 dr. BMW....a clapped out late 50's Benz ragtop.....a Siata ( think Spanish Fiat) Nothing really cool except for his `66 Corvette 427 Roadster. I come into work one morning and the car is blocking an entrance to the shop. With one of the owners watching me I hop in the car, fire it up, and slip it into reverse and blip the throttle and coast across the parking lot. At the end of the lot about 25' from a chain link fence I realize the brake pedal just hit the floor. As I pump wildly franticly looking for the e-brake I send the car UNDER the chain link fence with the bottom acting like a cheese grater across the deck lid of the `Vette..... SCRAPE!!!! :shock:

Now my boss that WATCHED me get in the car is running towards me screaming that it had no brakes. I get out of the car and just about pissed myself. At first I was laughing hysterically, then I looked at the car: wow! :( Whatta mess.... The other boss came over and chewed his partner a new one and I was off the hook. Needless to say, this bussiness pairing didn't last long.... :shaking:

Then there was the time I blew past a Nassau County Police car in excess of 135 mph in a Porsche 928 up in Roslyn Harbor..... I was sh!ting nickels until I realized he wasn't even attempting to chase me! THAT was unbelievable...... :prayer: