Oops! The 30 Wildest PR Fails You Won’t Believe Actually Happened

June 2015: Donald jumps into the Republican race. Cue chuckles everywhere.

March 2016: Wow, what have we unleashed? Campaign rollercoaster starts!

Pre-internet, an airline sent flowers to the guy who booked a couple’s flight. Oops! Turns out many couples weren't so coupled after all... drama ensued.

1984 Olympics: McDonald's said if the USA snagged medals, you got free food. But the USSR boycotted, handing America a medal jackpot. Free food for all, chaos for McD’s cash register.

A family’s helium balloon floated away, they said their kid was inside (he wasn’t). National Guard got involved, but the kid was just hiding at home. His reason? “For the show.” Awkward doesn’t cover it.

Cheap beer night at a baseball game? Fans got so wasted that the home team had to throw in the towel - literally forfeiting. Lesson: Don't mix cheap drinks and sports fans.

In Ireland, a pub said “50 cent off every goal scored” during the World Cup. Score? 7-1. Pints for 50 cents? Cheers to that… and chaos!

1896: A railroad staged a train crash for spectators. Boiling steam engines went kaboom, hurling metal bits into the crowd. Not the best idea ever.

Survivalist planned to get swallowed alive by an anaconda on live TV. Spoiler: snake wasn’t hungry and guy gave up. Major letdown for Prime Time.

For $250k you got a lifetime plane ticket and a pal’s discounted pass too. Turns out holders flew so much the airline lost millions yearly. Oops.

Fans got to pick concert cities for the Spice Girls comeback. Number one? Bagdad, Iraq. They didn’t actually show up, thankfully.

5-cent entry to an amusement park on a Wednesday? Seemed safe. Nope. Doors closed at 10am and chaos ruled with fights and police everywhere. Oops!

Snapple tried making the world’s biggest popsicle in NYC. It melted before the judge could measure it. Clean-up took ages. Big chill fail.

Buy a Hoover product and get free airline tickets! So many people jumped on it, Hoover lost millions and got sold. Too good to be true, indeed.

Reebok hyped a decathlon showdown between Dan and Dave in 1992. Guess who didn’t make the Olympics? Yep. Embarrassing.

A restaurant offered half-price pizzas for takeout on Valentine’s Day. They ran out of dough and left a swath of angry pizza lovers behind. Dough-ing wrong!

Ride your bike, earn store credits! Great idea until the sponsor realized they’d have to pay too much and dropped the program in under a month. Oopsie.

80s Ohio radio station dropped live turkeys from a helicopter for Thanksgiving. Turkeys can’t fly, and the horror was real. Sorry, turkeys.

She said she'd drop an album if she got 100K retweets. Only got 4K, then blamed hackers and kept folks waiting. Cringe alert!

United Way’s huge balloon release turned into a disaster with lawsuits, casualties, and a messy mess. Not the clean spectacle they planned.

New Coke seemed like a flop till some say it was a sneaky plan to bring back the original and boost sales. Genius or goof? You decide.

Walker's crisps offered £10 if you guessed it’d rain somewhere in the UK that day. Rain? In the UK? Yeah… promo got canned fast after money lost poured in.

New weapon system demos went sideways when guns locked on VIPs, shooting the ground or almost causing injuries. Military tech gone goofy.

Online poll for Bieber’s tour got hijacked. Top spots went to North Korea and Israel. Bieber’s probably glad those shows never happened!

Oprah gave away KFC coupons, and people lined up for days. Stores ran out of food, chaos everywhere. Free chicken frenzy!

They said eat all you want. Crabby customers ate so much they ran out and almost broke the bank. President had to resign - crabby times indeed.

During the 2008 crash, McCain “paused” his campaign to focus on the market meltdown. Then he went right back to campaigning. Awkward.

To promote Aqua Teen Hunger Force, someone put suspicious boxes around Boston. Police blew them up, thinking bombs. Cartoon Network got fined $2 million. Oops!

Sony painted walls without permission, faked viral blogs, and ran a controversial ad accused of racism. PSP promo bonanza of bad moves!

That catchy slogan? It killed the brand faster than you can say ‘car crisis.’ Oldsmobile never recovered. Lesson learned?

The hockey team tweeted new follower names on jerseys. Trolls spammed offensive handles, making everyone cringe. Spoiler: The Patriots tried it too with the same chaos.